Documentaries aren’t as popular compared to horror or comedy films at this point in time, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some astounding classic documentaries. If you are interested in a documentary so misconstrued it borders the line of science fiction, this movie you will interest you. A Beautiful Mind is a very realistic, mysterious, feel good movie with a main character you will connect with. A Beautiful Mind stars Russel Crowe as Nash, and Jennifer Connelly as his wife, Alicia, who’s pregnant with their child when the initial symptoms of his disease first come to light. It shares the narrative of a man whose intelligence contributed immensely to mankind while simultaneously betraying him with unnerving hallucinations. Crowe breathes …show more content…
My play was perfect. The game is flawed." He is aware of his impact on others ("I don't much like people and they don't much like me") and recalls that his first-grade teacher said he was "born with two helpings of brain and a half-helping of heart." It is Alicia who helps him find his heart. She is a graduate student when they meet, is attracted to his genius, and touched by his loneliness. She accepts his idea of courtship when he informs her, "Ritual requires we proceed with a number of platonic activities before we have sex." To the degree that he can be touched. She touches him, although his reaction is cold and emotionless. He seems as if he is an empty shell on the outside, though his words seem as if he is trapped inside his own …show more content…
He believes he is being pursued by a federal agent (Ed Harris), and imagines himself in chase scenes that seem to be inspired by 1940s crime movies. He begins to find patterns where no patterns exist. One night he and Alicia stand under the sky and he asks her to name any object, and then connects stars to draw it. Romantic, but it's not so romantic when she discovers his office thickly papered with countless bits torn from newspapers and magazines, connected by frantic lines into imaginary
Eugenio Derbez is a Mexican actor, director, producer, and writer. He started his acting career at 12 years old and continues in the same career. He is well known for his outstanding personality and great acting. He is “one of the most influential creative forces in Latin America.” Eugenio’s TV shows and movies are not only popular in Mexico, but also in the United Stated through Univision. For over twenty years, he has won thousands of people’s hearts.
Grazer, B., & Howard, R. (2001). A Beautiful Mind [Motion picture]. United States: Universal Pictures
Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is a fantastic film that combines seemingly disparate ideas into a coherent theme and narrative. The theme that seems so prevalent in the film is the struggle to move on and find love and admiration. The movie tries to understand this struggle by asking the question of what defines art and whether Hollywood-like spectacle approach to art is a good thing. The film also faces the viewer with the internal conflict that these characters face when having two types of personalities on and off the stage. The movie conveys this theme through its use of cinematography, acting and production design.
The movie Psycho, is one of the most influential movie in Cinema history to date. The director Alfred Hitchcock, wanted to test many of the conventions of movie making that was common at that time. Alfred Hitchcock movie broke many cultural taboos and challenged the censors. Alfred Hitchcock showed a whole bunch of at the time absurd scene, for example: Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) dying naked while taking a shower, Norman Bates with split personality disorder, and the first ever flushing toilet shown in a movie. Because from the late 1920's to the late 1950's, movies were made usually go around the story, and usually with a lot dialogue. This movie gives the audience an experience that was much more emotional and intuitive. The viewers were caught up in a roller coaster of shock, surprise and suspense based on image, editing and sound.
This was a superb movie although it was not original from the standpoint of being the first movie about schizophrenia, it was first the time I have seen this sickness manifest itself like that. The movie was based on a true story about a brilliant mathematician John Nash, who was suffering from a very severe case of schizophrenia for many years un-noticed, it began in his teenage years. He believed that he was secretly working with the government to break Russian codes. Eventually, the situation got out of control. It also illustrates the agony of coming to terms will the illness both for him and even his wife. Through her love and commitment for him he recovered but this seemed short lived, his ‘reality’ may have been too real for too long to let go.
The movie A Beautiful Mind, directed by Ron Howard, tells the story of Nobel Prize winner, and mathematician, John Nash’s struggle with schizophrenia. The audience is taken through Nash’s life from the moment his hallucinations started to the moment they became out of control. He was forced to learn to live with his illness and learn to control it with the help of Alicia. Throughout the movie the audience learns Nash’s roommate Charles is just a hallucination, and then we learn that most of what the audience has seen from Nash’s perspective is just a hallucination. Nash had a way of working with numbers and he never let his disease get in the way of him doing math. Throughout the movie the audience is shown how impactful and inspirational John Nash was on many people even though he had a huge obstacle to overcome.
The film, Of Two Minds, is based on real life accounts of individuals living with bipolar disorder. Before watching this film, I had an idea of what bipolar disorder is , but after viewing this film I was completely mistaken. Previously, I thought being bipolar was going from a “normal” mood to an angry or sad mood in a matter of seconds and could be simply fixed by taking medicine. But my previous thoughts were completely wrong and bipolar disorder is very serious and complicated. I didn’t know the severity of this disease and I think a lot of the general public is uneducated about bipolar disorder as well as mental illness. Terri Cheney describes having bipolar disorder as, “Take the best day you ever had and multiply it by a million, it 's like a flu but one hundred times worse. It 's having flu in your mind."
Beautiful Mind by Ron Howard is a story about John Nash whose life took a turn. John Nash went to college Princeton University when he first started seeing stuff, although he was unaware of it. Ever since he started going there he didn't have any friends and people made fun of him, because he was socially awkward. John Nash created a character in his mind to cope with it. This character that he created was his “room mate” named Charles . Throughout the years he used Charles as a way to cope with him being lonely . A couple years passed and he got invited to the Pentagon to crack a cod where he later met “Parcher” telling him to work for the government against the Soviet Union.At the time John Nash thought this real, not knowing this was all
The movie "A Beautiful Mind" tells the story of Nobel Prize winner John Nash's struggle with schizophrenia. It follows his journey from the point where he is not even aware he has schizophrenia, to the point where Nash and his wife find a way to manage his condition. The movie provides a lot of information and insight into the psychological condition of schizophrenia, including information on the symptoms, the treatment and cures, the life for the individual and for the individual's family. The movie is effective at demonstrating various concepts related to schizophrenia, and provides an insight into the disease of schizophrenia.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Dir. Michel Gondry. Perf. Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet. Focus Features, 2004. DVD.
Since the movie came out in 2006, “ The Pursuit of Happyness” has been one of my favorite movies. A non-fiction movie based on a true story, of a man called Chris Gardner and his son Christopher Gardner Jr. Both these roles are played by the famous actors Will Smith, and his real life son Jaden Smith. In this very inspirational movie, directed by Gabriele Muccino, Will smith plays out Chris Gardner when he was struggling to start as a stockbroker while being a father in need of money. This movie takes place at San Francisco in 1981, and has always meant a great deal to me. Inspiring me to always work my hardest in order to be successful in life. On this movie that is the message it holds, to inspire people to dream big, and to not let anyone
A Beautiful Mind may have been developed to be a crowd-pleaser as well as a tear-jerker, because you know this is a man’s life without falsities. It is blatant and true, that’s all. This film proves that there are still instances when Hollywood-produced, big budget movies are worth a viewer's investment of time and money.
The movie, “Mona Lisa Smile” is an inspirational film that explores life through feminism, marriage, and education lead by a modernist teacher at the end of a traditional era. It begins by introducing the lead character, Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts), a liberal-minded novice professor from California, who lands a job in the art history department at a snobbish, all-girl college, called Wellesley, in the fall of 1953. Despite warnings from her boyfriend Paul that a Boston Brahmin environment was out of her element, Katherine was thrilled at the prospect of educating some of the brightest young women in the country however, her image of Wellesley quickly fizzles after her first day of class, in which, was more like a baptism by fire. Her smug students flaunted their exhaustive knowledge of the text and humiliated her in front of a supervisor. However, Katherine, determined not to buckle under pressure, departs from the syllabus in order to regain the upper hand. She quickly challenged the girls’ idea of what constituted art and exposed them to modern artist not endorsed by the school board. She dared them to think for themselves, and explore outside of their traditional views. This form of art was unacceptable by the students at first however, overtime Katherine penetrated her student’s distain and earned their esteem.
Besides being a source of entertainment many films carry a message for the public. The 1997 film, Life Is Beautiful is a tragic comedy directed by and starring Roberto Benigni and is set during the holocaust. This film received several laurels including three Academy Awards. Roberto plays the role of Guido Orefice, a young Jewish who along with his family falls pray to the Nazi death camps. The film is divided into two parts, the first is entirely comic, the second, a bittersweet portrayal of love, sacrifice and suffering. The appeal lies in the challenges Guido must encounter in order to save his family. This forms the dramatic heart of the film.
A Beautiful Mind is a dramatic depiction of John Nash, Jr.’s life, loosely based on the biography of the same name written by Sylvia Nasar in 1998. The movie opens with a reception speech for newly admitted graduate students in the mathematics department at Princeton and closes with him winning a Nobel Peace Prize in economics for his work in game theory.