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Watson and Crick. Their names, like those of Lewis and Clark, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Stanley and Livingstone, are enshrined in tandem. Yet a few years after their epochal discovery, the men -- James Dewey Watson and Francis Harry Compton Crick -- began to drift apart. Though they have remained in touch -- except for a cooling-off period after Crick took exception to some of the material in Watson's best-selling book, The Double Helix -- they have seldom met in recent years...
Taking leave of his students upon his involuntary retirement, a high school teacher named Tom Crick (Jeremy Irons) tells them why he chose history as his subject. He was in Germany at the end of World War II. The horrors he witnessed were incomprehensible to him. He could deal with them only by inserting them into historical narrative, which granted them a spurious coherence and him the distance he required to live with them...
There may be some truth in this apologia. But it is also clear by this time -- very late in this knotty, curiously absorbing adaptation of Graham Swift's novel -- that Crick is speaking metaphorically too. For Mr. Crick is no Mr. Chips, and the history that most profoundly haunts him is personal...
...contains, among other matters, madness, incest, something very close to fratricide and an abortion the consequences of which reverberate down the years. All of this is reflected in Crick's face and manner -- full of suppressed torment -- and in the eerie, sweetly stated hysteria of his barren wife, Mary (Sinead Cusack), who endures false pregnancies and indulges in kidnapping in an attempt to fulfill her need for motherhood...
...think that there's no way the Republicans will lose unless a major catastrophe occurs in the next three months," says Chris J. Crick...