My friend recommended me to watch this movie, because it is psychological and I wanted to know more about mental illness. Before seeing the film, I didn’t have any kind of anticipation, but then I surprised totally.
A Beautiful Mind is directed by Rohn Howard. It is biographical drama, and it tells about John Nash’s life and time when he becomes Nobel Laureate in Economics. In 1947 John goes the university. He was supposed to leave alone, but suddenly his old friend appears and they start to live in the same apartment. Over time, they became best friends. John gets a secret job from Pentagon, because he is a genius in mathematics. Although John is little bit shy, a beautiful woman, John’s student, falls in love with him. However some day John is noted schizopgrenic, but his wife, Alicia Larde, helps him with illness. The plot of movie is really beautiful, but at the same time horrible, because it lets the audience see into schizophrenic’s mind.
John Nash plays Russell Crowe, whose performance is brilliant. He acts so realistically schizophrenic that without his performance the film could have been totally flop. The scene when he fights against hallucinations after long therapies, are so distressing. Also other scenes are very well acted and directed. First even viewer don’t know which is real and which is hallucination. It was surprising to realize at the end of the movie that some things were just hallucinations for John. This made the film interesting. I think this film really captures the audience. I suppose that these two leading roles are just right casted for Jennifer Connelly and Russell Crowe.
Soundtrack was basic, I didn’t pay attention for it. It sounded good in the scenes, but I wouldn’t listen to it by myself. On the other hand, music creates a certain kind of atmosphere to the film. So if the scenes had some other kind of music, the scenes’ atmosphere would have been different. A Beautiful Mind -movie doesn’t have special effects like stunts or explosions, but it has number screens which flickered when they were touched. I didn’t doubt any time that they wouldn’t be real, because they looked really real. In addition scenes when John saw hallucinations. They hadn’t been made badly, because like I said, first I didn’t even realize that they were unreal.
A Beautiful Mind has been recognized with four Oscars in 2002, for example ”Best Picture” and ”Directing” -awards. And I’m not surprised why. Music and camera work is really advanced. Even though I think this film was really good and rousing, I can’t tell more about the atmosphere because it is so marvelous. I think A Beautiful Mind is not like other dramas or comedies. The story line of this movie is so much more different than other movies. Usually I don’t remember happened to the main characters, but now I’ll remember it for a long time. All in all, I don’t know how describe the film, because the story line and characters and everything else are things which everyone should see with their own eyes.