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| Beautiful Mind, A [2002] | ![Beautiful Mind, A [2002]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51X1FBMN6HL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Ron Howard
Actors: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Judd Hirsch
Studio: Dreamworks Home Entertainment
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Amazon.co.uk Review
IA Beautiful Mind/I is an award-winning movie if ever there was one. This biopic of mathematician John Forbes Nash is two parts IShine/I to one part IGood Will Hunting/I. Scripted by Akiva Goldsman (ILost in Space/I) and directed by Ron Howard (IThe Grinch/I)--both trying to get sincere and serious after previous movies--it showcases a big, compelling performance from Russell Crowe as a genius whose eccentricities turn out to be down to a genuine mental illness. Though his early work as a student offered a breakthrough that eventually won him the 1994 Nobel Prize, Nash goes off the deep end in later life. p The film works better in the early paranoid stretches--which include a wonderful 1950s spy movie parody as Nash is sucked into an imagined world of fighting commie atom spies--than it does with the inspirational ending, where Nash?s handicaps are overcome so he can triumph at the end. Crowe's genuinely fine work still seems a bit IShine/Rain Man/Forrest Gump/I-ish in mannerism, yet experience shows this can be a powerful career move. Crowe gains sterling support from Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Paul Bettany and Christopher Plummer--some playing a mere character in Nash?s world. --IKim Newman/I
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 A Beautiful Film December 23, 2008
Films like this don't along often.br /br /Theres so much I love about this film, so much that moved and inspired me as I watched, but now I come to write about 'A Beautiful Mind' I find I'm lost for words.br /br /Lets start with the plot - Russel Crowe stars as John Nash - a brilliant mathematician who we first meet as an awkward and resevered student at Princeton univerity and who we follow through the remainder of his life. The films clearly seems to be split inot two halves - the first part, where Nash is at Princeton, best friend with his witty, charming and caring roomate, briliant and obesesed with finding his new innovativbe idea, and then later when he is head of Wheeler labs and falls in love with Alicia (played beautifully and elegantly by Jennifer Connelly). Then the 2nd part of the films, where all of a sudden Nash's world seems to fall apart.br /br /(SPOILERS) It is painful, for the viewer , to realise that Nash's world isn't real, as it must be for him and his wife to realise. His best firnd who he's known for years is revealed to be merely a figment of his imagination. Ron Howard has done a maginificnet job in invoking in the viewer the same desperation and hope that Nash and Alicia must have felt - you sit on the edge of your seat hoping that its all a mistake , that there really is a consipracy, and you feel Nash's absolute despair when it turns out that two of the things he cared about nmst in his life turn out to not even exist.br /br /There are many touching and heart wreinching moments in this film, you have your fingers crossed and will Nash not top revert to his hallucinations again, you will Alicia to stay with him and believe he can recover from this, and thank god when she does (although the entire time you can completey understand why she would want to leave) - Nash's achievements are you achievements, his sadness and regret you sadness and regret.br /br /It is a beautiful, powerful story and has been created close to perfection. One of my top 3 films of all time - a must see.
A brilliant film September 22, 2008
Russell Crowe gives arguably a career best performance as mathematician John Nash, who has schizophrenia. The visual hallucinations of his illness are depicted as real both for Nash and us, while the paranoid elements are given with just the right amount of off-key madness yet retaining (for Nash) a degree of reality. Crowe also portrays well the personality of Nash in his illness, for example his obsessive need to find patterns and break codes. I am looking forward to reading the book on which the film is based, and would recommend the film to everyone with even a passing interest in flawed genius.
A BEAUTIFUL FILM October 15, 2007
A Beautiful Mind's greatest achievement, in my humble opinion, is the way it makes schizophrenia accessible to "sane" people. The general public knows schizophrenics tend to talk to themselves, repeat certain actions and do things generally at odds with the norm. But why? It's nearly impossible for a "sane" individual to understand why this happens...and more importantly, what that feels like. Without this essential empathy, many people become frustrated with the mentally ill, asking why patients can't pull themselves together and just bear up. We express this same impatience with the criminally insane who act upon delusions with disastrous results. It is incomprehensible.br /br /A Beautiful Mind does all it can to change that, and it succeeds. Unless you are familiar with John Nash's story, you probably won't guess he's schizophrenic until part-way into the movie. He's eccentric, abrupt, and highly intelligent, but doesn't seem crazy. His delusions are as real as reality to Nash, and likewise, they are real to the audience, who cannot tell the difference between truth and delusion.br /br /Incidentally, I came across a review from a "professional critic" who blasted A Beautiful Mind for including "all that spying stuff that had nothing to do with Nash's work that was thrown in for Hollywood thrill." I feel bad for that chap, since he missed the entire point of the film. But that just proves Ron Howard's genius in creating a picture of insanity indistinguishable from reality.br /br /There are some truly shocking moments in A Beautiful Mind. When Alicia finds her husband's secret cache of newspaper clippings behind their house, I was eerily reminded of Jack Nicholson's wife in The Shining discovering his endless, typewritten pages of the same phrase. The scene that follows, culminating with Nash's realization that his delusions are indeed a false reality is brilliant. In a moment, remembering Marcee, Nash has a flash of insight, and he finally accepts his illness -- ironically, through his intellect. When Nash imagines that someone is going to harm Alicia, he lunges at her -- and only through his eyes do we see how a seemingly senseless act of violence is a gesture of love, filtered through the smog of delusion.br /br /Now my take on the acting: Superb in every sense of the word. Russell Crowe is incredible. I can't stress that enough. There's never any question about the authenticity of his character. Crowe doesn't rely on his elaborate makeup to age Nash -- his walk, words, and voice do that elegantly in the movie's end. Crowe will get at least another Oscar nomination out of this one. And, he better win. Jennifer Connelly is amazing as well. And when Crowe and Connelly are put together, extraordinary chemistry erupts, they just gel together, they really belong with one another. Some people have had problems with the romance part of the movie, saying that the way John and Alicia even started seeing each other wasn't very realistic and why Alicia would stay with John after he becomes distant. But, I think that maybe it started out as just a crush, you know, and the math question she showed him was just her excuse for going to his office and she already knew she was going to ask him out before hand. Maybe she's just attracted to the kind of person Nash is? Who knows? A lot of people are attracted to the "weirdest" things sometimes. The crush took over the fact that he sort of insulted her work and she still asked him anyway. When you're around someone you like so much you can't help but be fooled by them. I can't really explain it, but I can understand why she still asked him to dinner. And I guess if you love someone as much as Alicia loved John, then you would stick with them through anything. Even how distant he became, she still stuck with him.br /br /Moving on, I think Ed Harris is, as always, great. Harris continues to prove that, simply because he's flawless. With delusions like these, no wonder Nash was torn between treatment and "spying."br /br /Simply put, A Beautiful Mind is a film which extends far beyond the 2 hours and 15 minutes that you will spend viewing it in the theater. The characters continued to haunt me after the movie (and still do), thanks to the Oscar-inducing performances by Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly and all of the supporting players. They are not merely acting, yet are transformed into the characters, leaving no trace of a line between their part and reality.br /br /Of course a film is only as good as a screenplay would allow, and the story contained within is written in a way that compliments everything that is truly great about A Beautiful Mind. Ron Howard contributes truly inspiring work to this film, and I hope that the critics remember him when awards are being given out.br /br /All I can tell you now is that if you're looking for an emotionally-charged movie that will make you cry, but still filters in some very funny moments as to lighten things up every now and then, with near perfect acting, cinematography, directing, editing and a screenplay which will cause the story of John Nash to inspire you, then consider A Beautiful Mind.br /br /I hope a lot of people see this film. Not just because Russell Crowe is a hunk or because it's a Ron Howard piece, but because you will learn something important. You will learn why compassion is an absolute must when dealing with the mentally ill. You won't glare at the next person you see muttering to themselves. And when someone you love is dealing with a disorder, be it schizophrenia or depression, you won't ask them to "pull themselves together." You will understand why they need your love -- because they are just as confused as you are.br /br /In closing, if Russell Crowe isn't awarded the Best Actor Oscar this year, then my faith in movies and its rewards system will be seriously tarnished.
Beautiful Film April 5, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
You have to have appreciation for this film. Sure, it's not a day by day depiction of John Nash's real life, but it covers enough of the basics of his life that you have to realize what he went through. True, his wife did divorce him in ''real'' life, yet, if you read the biography by Sylvia Nasar, she does stay by his side to the very end...you have to agree that that takes a lot of courage and strength. To live a life so full of genius, and then to have the same thing that gives you that gift ''turn'' on you, blows my mind. John Nash achieved way more in his life WITH schizophrenia, than I ever will in my whole life. So, although the film doesn't follow the biography exactly, you have to realize that no film is exactly how the book is written...the main thing is that it shows you that there is diseases, etc in this world and this film is how one man LIVED his life with a horrible disease.br /The scene where he displays how his economics thereom works is classic and I even used for my MBA exams...the following day
A beautiful performance December 3, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I don't get it; Russell Crowe gets a best actor Oscar for the corny (if visually impressive) "Gladiator", but misses out for this? There ain't no justice! Crowe is stunning in the role of schizophrenic mathematician and Nobel Laureate John Nash, and he's backed up by an outstanding cast. I enjoyed being fooled by this film, because we initially see things as Nash sees them - and then we begin to see that many of them aren't actually there, and we start to wonder what's real and what isn't. In a mild sense we experience the confusion that Nash himself experiences when his perceived world starts to disintegrate. Excellent!
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