A Beautiful Mind
Sunday 18 May 2008 - Filed under entertainment
You really have to be a good sport when watching a movie based on a true story. That or avoid reading the book it’s based on. Alas, I’m neither a good sport and I actually read the book a while back. The book was a riveting read that brilliantly captured the misguided struggles of a towering intellect exposed to even greater character flaws.
So much was fictionalised and distorted out of proportion to really see it as part of the same narrative. I suppose if you omit the outbreak of schizophrenia and cut to the acceptance of the Nobel Prize, you’d have about as much of the movie that was worth it.
I mainly got a kick out of watching Russell Crowe, still in his very muscular and physical prime, playing a socially inept mathematician. Crowe did a brilliant job but still leaves a bit to be desired.
2008-05-18 » baron
18 May 2008 @ 10:07 pm
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20 May 2008 @ 9:27 am
I loved that movie. I must admit that I do need to read the book….