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A BEAUTIFUL MIND
“Nothing’s ever for sure… that’s the surest thing I know.” – Charles, answering Nash’s question on how would he know for sure that his girlfriend was the one he should marry…

Three things. The film is beautiful. Jennifer Conelly is beautiful. Russel Crowe is, oh, so beautiful! :P

Now that I have expressed my obvious admiration for Crowe (he had me at “Proof of Life… *sigh*), what I really wanted to say was that I was totally awed by this movie. I have always been fascinated by the wonders of the mind… How can a small part of our whole anatomy be so powerful to see, think, dream and discover so many things? The normal minds already intrigue me, as it is, how much more that of a genius?

Crowe (so un-Gladiator-like in this movie) stars as John Nash Jr., a handsome mathematical genius who won a Nobel Prize for Economics for his game theory (haha.. apparently discovered while discussing with his Princeton buddies what the best strategy is to pick up a blonde girl at the bar) also known as the “Nash equilibrium”. (Game theory: the game would be solved when every player independently chose his best response to the other players' best strategies). Nash is self-absorbed, arrogant, very competitive, and detached from the world around him; a geek in constant pursuit of mathematical solutions. But this movie is beyond that, it is also about a man who was so brilliant that it almost pushed his mind to its limit, making him see things that only he can see. The movie takes us into his life as a spy, showing us how he can crack military codes through mathematical patterns from newspaper/magazine articles. And the movie succeeded to jolt me with the realization that was all the workings of his beautiful mind. His life as he knew it began to crumble as he succumbed to paranoid schizophrenia --- ironically, a mental disorder so complex that it is barely understood. Nash, who was used to solving highly complex mathematical problems, couldn’t solve the problem of his mind. But ultimately, like most touching movies, this is also about a love so powerful that it defies all reasons… For a man who believed that the universe was rational, his salvation was the love of his beautiful wife, who stayed with him, eccentricities and all. It was the mysterious equations of love that helped him fight his disease and be well enough to live a semblance of the life he once knew.

John: Give me a proof that this relationship is a long-time thing…
Alicia: Proof? You want data? Ok. How big is the universe?
John: Infinite.
Alicia: How do you know? Have you seen it?
John: No.
Alicia: So how do you know?
John: I just believe.
Alicia: It’s the same with love. You just believe.





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