A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind
2001

I utterly, and completely, and ridiculously abhor math with a passion. It is by far the worst subject to ever creep upon this planet. It’s truly evil. Will I ever use algebra or geometry or whatever again? No. So why exactly do I have to learn it? WHY?

John Nash however loves it. He loves it a lot. He talks about it in ways I cannot even understand. He earned a full scholarship to Princeton because of how much he loves math. He doodles huge equations on the windows of his dorm rooms. He really, really likes math. It’s really, really weird.

But unfortunately, he really, really sucks with people. The first lines spoken out of his mouth in the film are, “There can be a mathematical explanation to how bad your tie is.” Such a charmer. Usually he just sticks to silence which is a good idea for someone like him.

For his entire existence at Princeton he chills in his dorm room, doodling, never actually going to class. Why would you know, do something as silly as that? Until he comes up with this brilliant economical thingymajigger that I am not even going to being to explain because he is smart and I in this particular area am not. So because of this great breakthrough he lands he and two of his semi-friends a fantastic job at MIT. He also gets to help out the government and teach classes, the latter of which he hates.

And this is all I will tell you for now. Because if I continue, it would completely ruin the movie, and this is a fabulous movie so I wouldn’t want to do that. I will say this though. This movie is not as much about math as it is about dedication.

John’s wife Alicia is a perfect picture of dedication and love. No matter what life threw at her and her husband, no matter how much better it would have been for her to leave him, she still stuck by him through it all, until the finale scene where he receives a Nobel Prize for all his work.

As far as production and all that jazz, this movie was fine. Russell Crowe mumbled his words quite a bit which irked me just a tad, but other than that he portrayed the brilliant John Nash well. He walked odd and in general came across as a socially awkward person, which is just what he needed to do. But who was the really great star of the film was Jennifer Connolly, Alicia Nash. She… was good… I cannot tell you why though… Just watch this movie okay? It was good.

I really do hate math. So much. But this movie I liked!