I love how it goes beyond the ordinary audience.

Rating: Null/10 (8 September 2003)

I don't really watch movies often unless it relates to me or is "beyond me" and this is almost never, but here is a movie that relates to me in almost every way, with a few good curiousities that are a bit beyond me and thus far beyond the mentally-ordinary audience.
Its movies like this which opens public exchange forums up like this to gifted individuals and mathematical thinkers alike (usually one in the same), with a thing or two to say about these types of movies that are watched by all and only related to by few. I myself am a "typical genius" according to the definition used by Hans Eysneck in his book, "Genius", vis: he "...concludes that the typical genius has an IQ some three to four standard deviations above the mean."
There are two key elements that are significant in the material binding of the movie-to- audience via sight-to-sound processes:
1) the movie educates the general audience by demonstrating the vast differences between the ordinary man and the genius- Hollywood style, of course. Which is exactly the opposite to "Good Will Hunting" a few years back that tends to trick the audience but in truth Will Hunting is an astoundingly deceptive genius. If he were not a janitor he would have shown his personality to have been more "genius-like". But obviously he is working an angle throughout the movie in order to keep his ordinary friends who he has nothing in common with except friendship and baseball- he is a complete mystery to the audience which is exactly the intended effect. Whereas, the intended effect of, "A Beautiful Mind" gives the audience complete knowledge of the inner-workings of this particular (super) genius by giving them the impression of, "He is beyond me..." using special effects and the like. It was assumed in some website by some psychologist, that the fictional character we know and love as Will Hunting, displays characteristics of someone with an IQ of around 190, a lot like Freidrich Gauss, "The prince of mathematicians". If I were to make an educated guess on John Nash's IQ I would say it is around 180. Einstein's was 160, surprisingly to many he was too a "typical genius".
2) The music of "A Beautiful Mind" gives the audience musical insight into the inner-workings of John Nash- into his mind, heart and spirit. I do not wish to explain the movement of the music but the movement of the audience as it is much less complex and appropiate for here: Basically, especially in the starting, various sound movements begin and gradually come into each other all at once, providing a parade of sound coming from all directions at once and into each audience member's ear.
In short: it'll blow your mind man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those on this list who claim to dislike the movie are insecure about the things they like and so deny it when they think that no one else should admit themselves to liking it.
Why? Because although there are "boring" details around the middle that get into the negative human aspects of the man behind the genius (as there is always one), then one who claims that the movie sucks is sayin that "there is no man behind the genius" and thus are either, dumb (an understatement), or in denial of being let down after finding out that the genius can not only be a "superman" but also human like themselves. Look at Sir Isaac Newton, a genius's genius who had a breakdown in middle age.
That is all I have to say for this,