Movie Review a Beautiful Mind
The Beautiful Mind
Director: Ron Howard
Writer: Akiva Goldsman, Sylvia Nasar(author)
Cast: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Paul Bettany…
In ''A Beautiful Mind,'' her biography of the mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr., Sylvia Nasar quotes one of his colleagues: ''All mathematicians live in two different worlds. They live in a crystalline world of perfect platonic forms- an ice palace. But they also live in the common world where things are transient, ambiguous, subject to vicissitudes.'' Mr. Nash, whose life is a case study in the difficulty -- and also the wonder -- of living in both, now inhabits a third: the treacle palace of middlebrow Hollywood moviemaking, in which ambiguity is dissolved in reassuring platitudes and freshly harvested tears. The tears, and the dazzled glow that accompanies them, feel honestly earned. The paradox of Ron Howard's new film, from a script by Akiva Goldsman, is that the story that elicits these genuine emotions is almost entirely counterfeit.
Nominated for eight Academy Awards and winner of four Oscars including Best Picture, “A Beautiful Mind” is one of the premier dramas of the decade. This brainchild of popular director Ron Howard debuted to widespread media hype and pre-release critical acclaims due to its power house team of Ron Howard, Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly, and the theme of a mathematical genius and victim of schizophrenia; whose affliction causes his life to crumble around him and he attempts to repair the shattered fragments of his life. He succeeds. Of course he succeeds, this is Hollywood and Hollywood likes a happy ending. In this case the happy ending is that, as an old man and after years of struggle, the poor academic is awarded the Nobel Prize. One interesting point though; it's a true story and our hero is none other than John Forbes Nash Jr. "A Beautiful Mind" lays out the story of mathematical genius John Forbes Nash Jr. as he enters Princeton, a bright student with a limitless
Director: Ron Howard
Writer: Akiva Goldsman, Sylvia Nasar(author)
Cast: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Paul Bettany…
In ''A Beautiful Mind,'' her biography of the mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr., Sylvia Nasar quotes one of his colleagues: ''All mathematicians live in two different worlds. They live in a crystalline world of perfect platonic forms- an ice palace. But they also live in the common world where things are transient, ambiguous, subject to vicissitudes.'' Mr. Nash, whose life is a case study in the difficulty -- and also the wonder -- of living in both, now inhabits a third: the treacle palace of middlebrow Hollywood moviemaking, in which ambiguity is dissolved in reassuring platitudes and freshly harvested tears. The tears, and the dazzled glow that accompanies them, feel honestly earned. The paradox of Ron Howard's new film, from a script by Akiva Goldsman, is that the story that elicits these genuine emotions is almost entirely counterfeit.
Nominated for eight Academy Awards and winner of four Oscars including Best Picture, “A Beautiful Mind” is one of the premier dramas of the decade. This brainchild of popular director Ron Howard debuted to widespread media hype and pre-release critical acclaims due to its power house team of Ron Howard, Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly, and the theme of a mathematical genius and victim of schizophrenia; whose affliction causes his life to crumble around him and he attempts to repair the shattered fragments of his life. He succeeds. Of course he succeeds, this is Hollywood and Hollywood likes a happy ending. In this case the happy ending is that, as an old man and after years of struggle, the poor academic is awarded the Nobel Prize. One interesting point though; it's a true story and our hero is none other than John Forbes Nash Jr. "A Beautiful Mind" lays out the story of mathematical genius John Forbes Nash Jr. as he enters Princeton, a bright student with a limitless