Those who say science isn't romantic haven't seen The Love Hypothesis The film with Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman is available on Prime Video
Another ride, another ride, another romantic film on Prime Video and then another narrative trope. We are at the fake dating with The Love Hypothesis, the platform's latest original, unfailingly based on a novel of the same name that this time sees the writer Ali Hazelwood taken and adapted, who has entrusted the screenplay to Sarah Rothschild and the direction to Claire Scanlon. The protagonists are Lili Reinhart from Riverdale and Tom Bateman from Da Vinci's Demons, for a story that, quiet and quiet, even if it involves a professor and a doctoral student, has nothing murky.
The Love Hypothesis is on Prime Video
In fact, there are no conflicts of interest in the Stanford attended by both, with Dr. Adam Carlsen (Bateman) belonging to another department than the young researcher (Reinhart), making their relationship more than legitimate. Pardon, their fake relationship. In fact, as in the best of the experiments, the characters will start going out to achieve a result, double in this case: the girl needs to pretend to be with someone so as to convince her best friend Ahn (Rachel Marsh) to go out with the boy she herself has a crush on, while the professor must prove that he has something that keeps him close at the university so that he can have his funds renewed. The result is, of course, the birth of a love story.
If the hypothesis on which the title of the film is based is whether two beautiful, intelligent and apparently even ironic people can end up in love, it must be said that it was difficult for this not to happen. Fortunately, The Love Hypothesis carries with it something more than these obvious facts, not distinguishing itself for originality or innovation, but creating a warm and amiable transposition capable of conquering those who are passionate about the novel and those who will know Olive and Adam thanks to the film.
The cast of The Love Hypothesis is its strong point
Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman do theirs. She is insecure but brilliant, icy and ready to melt, the interpreters create opposite poles destined to fit together like those atoms that, in order to find the right stability, must not be alone, but together. It is on the chemistry of belonging that The Love Hypothesis is based, which, in the story of the protagonists, shows that in our uncertainties it is always better to connect with those who give us security, whether they are a best friend or an irreproachable scholar who will be able to soften up little by little.
The film doesn't shine for its novelty and avant-garde, but it's good even like this
There are no new ideas, the humor is well measured and the harmony between the protagonists does most of the work. In any case, we are satisfied watching Scanlon's film, thanks to interpretations that allow Olive and Adam to be characterized even when a small part of their story or their inner world is explored. With greater introspection on the part of the young woman than the professor, who, however, on his side, is lucky to see Bateman launch into a good performance poised between the forcing and the naturalness of this apparently unaffective man.
The sensitivity to the characters and the source of the story (which is Star Wars!)
A film that uses fake dating but really softens the audience, who can appreciate the loving tone towards the characters and perhaps become passionate about a complex world such as that of science. World explored extensively by Hazelwood with her novels set in the world of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines, although science fiction is the universe from which The Love Hypothesis starts, born from a fanfiction about Kylo Ren and Rey from Star Wars - Rey herself played in the movies by Daisy Ridley, none other than Tom Bateman's wife in real life. Whether it's among the stars or the rooms of a laboratory, love always seems to be the answer. Surely on Prime Video most of the time it is.