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A Beautiful Mind is beautifully written, well-acted and well-designed efforts that are likely to remind many viewers of a simple axiom: a movie should not be innovative to be convincing. The uniqueness is a valuable commodity, because so little of it in Hollywood these days, but when the filmmakers make such skillful work with a pair of elements, their efforts should be recognized. Without affecting openly manipulated A Beautiful Mind tells the story of John Nash, a Nobel laureate who fought for the greater part of his adult life with schizophrenia. As directed by Ron Howard, it turns into a fairy tale not only one person in the struggle to overcome his own disability, but also the overreaching power of love - a theme that has been adopted films, as a wonderful life, and Rocky.

A Beautiful Mind, might have been designed for the crowd-pleaser, as well as tear-jerker, but the real trial is manifested in the way the pieces were collected. The film never becomes cloying, and threaten to drown us not flow under false sentiments. This is not a Patch Adams, filled with saccharine coated artificiality. Heroes effectively retrieve, and their plight affects an emotional chord. A Beautiful Mind offers catharsis without insulting the intelligence. Unfortunately, too few movies these days can make a similar claim. The film contends that it is still the case that in Hollywood production, big budget movies spectator stands, investment of time and money.

A Beautiful Mind aim to tell the true story of Professor John Nash (Russell Crowe), but, while the gross facts may be accurate, we should expect more ornaments. Narrative features, is not limited to the same rules that restrict documentaries. We first meet Nash, a student at Princeton in 1947. He is a brilliant but volatile - a mathematical genius who lacks social skills. It is to help in creating, through these difficult years in his room, Charles (Paul Bettany). Years later, after striking a breakthrough that revolutionized the economy, John teaches at MIT, and the code is doing pioneering work on the shady government agents, William Parcher (Ed Harris). It is at this point that John meets, falls in love with and marries Alicia (Jennifer Connelly). But his happy world begins to crumble soon. John suffers from paranoid hallucinations, by the time he had taken to a psychiatric hospital for the care of the mysterious Dr. Rosen (Christopher Plummer), he is diagnosed as an advanced case of schizophrenia.

For Crowe, the winner of last year’s Best Actor Oscar, it is another opportunity to expand its product range. Crowe successfully buries his personality under Nash ’s, allowing the character to come to the fore (a necessity, given the actor is currently off-screen baggage load). Much as he did in insider, Crowe showed no difficulty living on the skin of a real-life person who has the intellect, rather than physical. And when it comes to the sequence depicting Nash is fighting his demons, Crowe activity is totally convincing. Meanwhile, Jennifer Connelly is light, as Alicia. While the showier performance belongs Crow, the Connelly complex work, depicting a woman torn by love and fear in the same man, that elevates the film to a higher level. The actress has been unfairly overlooked for Requiem for a Dream, hopefully, the Academy will not repeat this mistake. Solid support is provided by Ed Harris and Christopher Plummer.

A spectator, of course, do not have to be an expert to appreciate the mathematical fact that the A Beautiful Mind offers, but those with a strong component of the left brain can be treated better than John Nash right-brainers. The film tosses mathematical theories and theorems in the direction of the audience, but also explains them simply and clearly, no one is going to become lost or bored. A Beautiful Mind is not a question of mathematics, except as a symbol. It is a human weakness and an opportunity to defeat it. Nash could just as easily be a doctor, a lawyer or a construction worker, and the essence of the story will not change.

The strength in the writing and production values, raising A Beautiful Mind far above “the disease of the week movie” quality. At the core of the picture is the relationship between John and Alicia, and the ordeal that the strength of their bond allows them to overcome. In one case, a friend asked Alicia how it could continue to be affected with her husband, and she replies with a brief explanation that everyone who has ever been in love will understand. A Beautiful Mind challenge to conventional Hollywood wisdom, that love is passion and romance. For John and Alicia, it is painful, heartbreaking work. And while the heart and flowers are great for the imagination, this is the kind of expression of emotion that affects deeper chord.

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