Saturday, December 20, 2008

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I've been planning to watch "A Beautiful Mind" for a long time and finally a few days ago I watched it.

brief synopsis from Wikipedia:

Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American film inspired by the life of John Forbes Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics[1]. The film was directed by Ron Howard and written by Akiva Goldsman. It was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar. The film stars Russell Crowe, along with Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris and Paul Bettany. The story begins in the early years of Nash's life at Princeton University as he develops his "original idea" that will revolutionize the world of mathematics. Early in the movie, Nash begins developing paranoid schizophrenia and endures delusional episodes while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings on his wife and friends.

I'm totally amazed by Russell Crowe's acting in this film. There's a speech towards the end of the film and I believe it to be one of the best movie speeches I have heard:

Thank you. I've always believed in numbers; and the equations and logics that lead to reason. But after a lifetime of such pursuits, I ask, "What truly is logic? Who decides reason?" My quest has taken me through the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional -- and back. And I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found. I'm only here tonight because of you [his wife, Alicia]. You are the reason I am. You are all my reasons.

Thank you.

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