Like waking up from a dream.

Rating: Null/10 (19 July 2002)

Bear with me, because I have to use a personal example to explain the eeriness and absolute genius of the film, "A Beautiful Mind". (Those who have seen this film will understand my analogy)Briefly: ***SPOILERS AHEAD*** I woke up once from a really strange dream. My eyes had been open while I was taking an afternoon nap, and I was looking in the direction of a framed picture of a Corvette on my bedroom wall. In this very vivid dream, there were some of my friends dancing, singing and laughing all around the car. I suddenly woke up from that nap, still looking at the poster. The car remained, but the people were gone. The singing and clapping faded to the dull roar of my fan. The realization that my brain, through simple dreaming, was adding life and motion to the picture on my wall gave me an eerie chill that I could not explain, and would only experience again when I saw this movie. When Mrs. Nash begins investigating the places we first see in the film through the eyes (and mind) of a very awake and conscious John Nash, there's a charge of emotion that, in an instant, ranges from compassion to sheer wonder. Particularly when she finds the "communications shack". Goosebumps! The complexities of the human mind may not be explainable with words; but, through the real magic of cinema, Ron Howard and Russell Crowe (and all others who made this movie, gaffer, key grip and all) seem to have hit it right on the bull's eye! Awesome! disturbingly awesome!