A Beautiful Mind = A Beautiful Movie

Rating: Null/10 (11 July 2002)

Ok, call me a late bloomer, but I hate paying good money for bad cinema, so I wait and I rent a lot of the time. The first mistake I made in missing this movie for so long was: I listened to my friends'. The second was: I thought, how interesting could a mathematician's life be?' Well I was wrong to listen and wrong to think. This was one of the most beautiful movies I have seen in a long time. I compare it to October Sky. If anyone tells you this was an, OK' or boring movie, then I don't think they saw the same picture. The cinematography alone was award winning, in my book. Russell Crowe is pure excellence  this should have won him his best actor award not Gladiator. I thought Jennifer Connelly was captivating. She has grown up to be a great actress. Ron Howard really deserved his best director award for this one. I could even forgive him for The Grinch after this. Also, I didn't see Clint anywhere. Hummm?
Some of my friends, that didn't care for the movie, found the way his mental illness was presented was unfair to them, as the viewer. They felt cheated  and that, I believe, is exactly what the filmmakers wanted you to feel: the unfairness of the situation. The way this film presents dealing with a schizophrenic mind was compassionate and crafty. This movie puts the viewer in the driver's seat of the disturbed mind and then has you deal with the situation.
This is a wonderful movie and I would recommend it to anyone. I would strongly recommend it to people that really love excellence in cinema. That's my take. What's yours?