A Beautiful Mind

What this movie again today, forgot how amazing the acting is. So well done, Russel Crowe is out standing. Story well delivered.

Hard to say I enjoyed any extended stretch of this. The score is memorable but the script was a big miss for me. Crowe's accent is all over the place, Jennifer Connelly is nice.

This film chronicles the life of American mathematician John Nash, a genius considered one of the most remarkable mathematicians of the twentieth century. I confess I did not know him until I saw the film, but I found it interesting how he tells his life, using his life's adventures to make the story more appealing to the public. Not everything the film shows is exactly true but if we except the writer's creative and narrative freedoms, the film is close enough to reality for a biopic. Russel Crowe plays the protagonist, and he does it in a generally good way. The big problem of his interpretation was the strange and somewhat forced accent he used, and that I confess I did not understand.

Even if you ignore the fact that Nash's homosexuality was completely ignored, what about his first son who was never mentioned? The one he failed to support financially. What about his strained relationship with his wife? What about the ridiculous and non-factual introduction of his imaginary friends, which are used as a Greek chorus by director Ron Howard because he couldn't move the story along any other way. Badly filmed Hollywood whitewash.

too conventional and too sweet considering that it's about an unconventional life **** mathematician. certainly not the best of 2001 ( a great year for movies).