Synopsis
He saw the world in a way no one could have imagined.
John Nash is a brilliant but asocial mathematician fighting schizophrenia. After he accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
John Nash is a brilliant but asocial mathematician fighting schizophrenia. After he accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
Russell Crowe Jennifer Connelly Ed Harris Paul Bettany Christopher Plummer Josh Lucas Adam Goldberg Anthony Rapp Judd Hirsch Jason Gray-Stanford Austin Pendleton Vivien Cardone Jillie Simon Victor Steinbach Tanya Clarke Thomas F. Walsh Jesse Doran Kent Cassella Patrick Blindauer John Blaylock Roy Thinnes Anthony Easton Cheryl Howard Josh Pais David B. Allen Michael Esper Erik Van Wyck Rance Howard Jane Jenkins Show All…
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Here’s an equation for ya:
male gaze + runtime exceeding 2 hours + slightly brown tinted colour grading = Academy Award for Best Picture, 2001
Somehow simultaneously the impressively dull, saccharine, sanded-of-any-and-all-edges prestige biopic that we've been assaulted with for 2 decades now and a "what if The Sixth Sense but your brain didn't work right" disability gawking horror show filled with so many close-up push-ins on Jennifer Connolly looking in "wow, maybe he is still a real person in there" awe it's no wonder she secured the Oscar and not him. How life-affirming. Thank you, Ron Howard.
Decided to give this another shot after reflexively dismissing it as a snobby kid and never thinking about it since. It's honestly not bad! Connelly and Crowe really successfully convert their mutual yet conflicting anxieties into some very effectively horrifying paranoia, and as schematic as it seems the schism of reality here is never really played for a twist. Hardly a work of great subtlety (hardly a great movie, period) but I would argue that A) It's not as unsubtle as that makes it sound and; B) Subtlety is frequently overvalued. Howard's over-hated; it's just not his fault that his sturdy carpentry birthed a thousand THEORYs OF EVERYTHING. My biggest complaint is that it spends almost no time at all on Nash's truly influential (and deleterious) game theory's contributions to US foreign policy and so on and so forth. That his work was both groundbreaking and terrible isn't touched on at all.
Almost offensive in its devotion to utter mediocrity. Quite possibly the most award-bait film I’ve seen since The King’s Speech: the cinematography casts every image under a false haze of soft sentimentality; the camera has the patience of a two-year-old, constantly sweeping in an erratic ballet of meaningless motion; the sickly-sweet score drips and oozes over every moment, wrenching emotion out of you with the elegant nuance of a bison; and Russel Crowe hams it up big time, shuffling and twitching and drooling his way into the embrace of that little golden man. I don’t know whether he ended up winning, nor do I much care—A Beautiful Mind released almost twenty years ago, after all. Less easy to forgive is…