A Beautiful Mind (2001) HD

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Metascore: 73/10
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Director: Ron Howard
Writers: Akiva Goldsman, Sylvia Nasar
Cast: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Cristopher Plummer, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg

After a splendid yet asocial mathematician acknowledges mystery work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.

A Beautiful Mind is a touching, candidly charged film itemizing the life of a splendid scholarly who experiences schizophrenia. This tribulation gradually assumes control over his psyche and we look as his life disintegrates separated around him. He deserts his understudies, estranges his associates and replaces his examination with a vain and all-expending fixation. Inevitably he is taken into clinic where he is constrained, with the assistance of electric-stun treatment and consistent medicine, to acknowledge his condition and endeavor to repair the smashed parts of his life.

He succeeds. Obviously he succeeds, this is Hollywood and Hollywood likes a glad consummation. For this situation the glad consummation is that, as an old man and following quite a while of battle, poor people scholarly is recompensed the Nobel Prize. One fascinating point however; its a genuine story and our legend is none other than John Forbes Nash Jr.

As a young man, John Nash was a scientific virtuoso. In 1947 he went to Princeton on a Carnegie Scholarship, and following three years had created a 27-page exposition for his doctorate in which he enormously extended the field of Game Theory, transporting it from a position of relative indistinct quality into one of practically widespread significance.

In the 1920s the father of Game Theory, Hungarian mathematician John von Neumann, had demonstrated that numerical models could be utilized to clarify the conduct of players in basic diversions. His work was constrained in extension on the other hand, and albeit fascinating, it seemed, by all accounts, to be of minimal functional utilization.

Nash's paper developed von Neumann's work, indicating how Game Theory could clarify mind boggling and in addition basic focused conduct. It wasn't a complete answer for all diversion circumstances, yet it did establish the frameworks for the gigantic collection of chip away at Game Theory which has been delivered following.

Sadly, next to no of this runs over in A Beautiful Mind in light of the fact that the chief (Ron Howard) appears to be more keen on making a film around a schizophrenic than a mathematician experiencing schizophrenia. Toward the begin of the film we are demonstrated a Hollywood format of a regularly over the top youthful scholastic, contemplative, socially uncouth, contemptuous of his partners' work. On the off chance that the notes we see Nash jotting on his windows were concoction formulae or rhyming couplets as opposed to numerical mathematical statements, the character would have appeared to be similarly conceivable.

This is not to say that Russell Crowe, who plays Nash, makes a terrible showing. Surely, he succeeds in giving his character a persuading believability once in a while seen in standard film nowadays, and he was absolutely a meriting Oscar chosen one. It's simply that we never see him doing any maths separated from the incidental jotting on windows.

Also, when his incredible achievement at long last comes, Nash is not poring over his books in the library or looking steadily at his glass likeness a slate, he's in a bar, peering toward up a gathering of alluring young ladies. How outwardly helpful.

However to be reasonable, this is a sensation in view of Sylvia Nasar's top rated book, not a narrative. Its point is to divert, not to edify, and it does this superbly well. Russell Crowe delivers presumably his best execution to date and is similarly persuading as both the cumbersome youthful virtuoso and the tormented healing, attempting to modify his marriage and profession. Jennifer Connolly (who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress) is great as Alicia, Nash's tolerant wife, and there are a few solid exhibitions from the supporting cast, most outstandingly Ed Harris as a secretive character from the military and Paul Bettany as Nash's Princeton flat mate.

Be that as it may Hollywood requires more from its movies than a couple of great exhibitions; it obliges show, activity, sentiment, emotion, fervor. A Beautiful Mind makes a reasonable endeavor to incorporate these fixings and the outcomes clearly fulfilled makers and film-goers alike - it won Oscars for Best Film and Best Director. However for those hoping to see a film about arithmetic it is unrealistic to fulfill. Ahead of schedule in the film, John Nash portrays himself as having "two helpings of cerebrum and a large portion of an aiding of heart". A Beautiful Mind appears the precise inverse.