Haunting..

Rating: 9/10 (22 May 2002)

Spoilers. I got into this movie because I felt for the main character, Russell Crow. I, for one, did not know anything of his mental disorder when I first saw this movie. I knew that he had one, but not what kind. So, I'm watching the movie and thinking, "Ok, this is the story of a life of a man who worked for the government doing spy work and was always in constant danger." I was scared when the people who he thought were Russians finally caught them and of course I didn't believe them when they said that he was in a phsychiatric hospital, but the more that I put the pieces together, the more it made sense. It was creepy in my mind when his wife goes back to where he left all those letters and unfathomable to me how a man can imagine everything that he saw and pass it off as true. It must be a truly frightening life style to live not knowing what is real and what is imaginary. Somehow, though, he overcame all these obstacles. This is a great movie, but it loses one point because the part about the Nobel Prize at the end was unnecesary and I thought was just added in there to make it a feel good ending. I know its a biography, but you don't have to include everything.
9/10