Posted by PERFESSER CREEK-WATER at pcp01625573pcs.univde01.de.comcast.net on April 15, 2002 at 18:22:39:
DUDEs---THIS ***MOVIE*** IS ABOUT NEW JERSEY !!
MOVIE-REVIEW: A BEAUTIFUL MIND
UNIVERSAL STUDIOs 129 MINUTEs PG-13
---STORY OF MATHEMATICIAN---[AND PRINCETON-
-UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR]---JOHN NASH
STARs: RUSSELL CROWE AS JOHN NASH
JENNIFER CONNELLY AS HIS WIFE
ED HARRIS AS THE CIA-GUY
DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD
SCREEN-PLAY BY AKIVA GOLDSMAN
BASED ON THE BOOK BY SYLVIA NASAR
THIS MOVIE IS ABOUT A GUY WHO VERY FEW PEOPLE HAD EVER HEAR'D OF
---EVEN THO HE WON A NOBEL-PRIZE IN ---(LIKE)--- ECONOMICs IN 1994...
NOW, SINCE THE MOVIE, LOTs OF FOLKs KNOW ABOUT PROFESSOR JOHN NASH
AND HOW HE FOUGHT AGAINST INSANITY AND ---(LIKE)--- KICK'D ITs BUTT !! YESSS!!!
BASIC-LY THIS IS WHAT HAPPENs: IN THE MOVIE WE SEE NASH FIRST AS
A COCKY YOUNG STUDENT MATH-GENIUS AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY...
COCKY, YES: BUT THAT IS ONLY A MASK---A PATHETIC ATTEMPT TO HIDE
HIS VERY-REAL **FEAR-OF-PEOPLE**: FOR EXAMPLE: AFTER LOSE-ING A
GAME OF "GO", HE ANNOUNCEs "THE GAME IS FLAW'D" INSTEAD OF ADMIT-ING HIS GAME-SKILLs ARE WEAK... THIS IS A RECUR-ING THEME IN HIS YOUNG LIFE: HE HAS NO FRIENDs BECAUSE HE HAS NO SOCIAL-SKILLs...
THE SCENE IN THE LOCAL PUB, WHERE HE SITs UP ON A BAR-STOOL +
BLUNT-LY ASKs A COMELY LASS FOR A SEXUAL-FAVOR IS, AS HIS
FELLOWs NOTE: "ONE FOR THE HISTORY-BOOKs"... HILARIOUS.....
LATER WE SEE HIM ---NOW A FULL PROFESSOR AT PRINCETON--- TOSS
A TEXT-BOOK INTO A TRASH-RECEPTACLE TO INSPIRE HIS STUDENTs TO
THINK INDEPENDENT-LY... HE MARRIEs A FEMALE STUDENT + SOON
SPIRALs DOWN INTO A FANTASY-WORLD OF HIS OWN IMAGINATION...
HE IMAGINEs THAT THE RUSSIANs (REMEMBER WHEN THE RUSSIANs WERE THE ENEMY ??) ARE SEND-ING SECRET-CODED MESSAGEs TO THEIR AGENTs IN
THE USA VIA ORDINARY NEWsPAPER + MAGAZINE ARTICLEs, AND THAT HE IS
THE ONLY ONE SMART ENOUGH TO INTERCEPT + DE-CODE THE MESSAGEs...
ED HARRIS IS BRILLIANT AS HIS CIA "HANDLER", PERSUADE-ING HIM
AGAIN+AGAIN TO ABANDON THE ORDINARY-COMFORTs + DOMESTIC-JOYs OF HOME, WIFE, CHILD, ETC; INSTEAD HE CAREENs FROM BIZARRE TO MORE BIZARRE TO MOST BIZARRE---A SECRET-AGENT-MAN ---(LIKE)--- TOTAL-LY
OUT-OF-CONTROL...
THE PROBLEM IS, CIA BOSS-MAN HARRIS(HARASS??) EXISTs ONLY IN HIS
MIND---WITH A CURIOUS LITTLE 10-YEAR-OLD GIRL + HER UNCLE...
HE SEEs THEM... HEARs THEM... FIGHTs THEM... BUT...
THEY ARE... SIMPLY... ...NOT... ...THERE.....
HEY: I CRY'D WHEN PROFESSOR NASH FINAL-LY RE-GAINs HIS COMPOSURE:
IT HAPPENs LIKE THIS: SEE, A GUY FROM THE NOBEL-PRIZE COMMITTEE
COMEs TO PRINCETON TO CHECK HIM OUT: THEY WANT TO AWARD HIM FOR
THIS THING CALL'D "GAME-THEORY" WHICH HE FIGURED OUT ---(LIKE)---
YEARs AGO---BEFORE HE WENT OFF THE DEEP END, OK?? BUT, LIKE, THEY
THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE HE IS ---(LIKE)--- IN HIS RIGHT MIND, OK??
THE PART WHERE I CRY'D WAS WHERE HE GO's WITH THE NOBEL-GUY TO THE
TEACHING-STAFF SNACK-BAR THERE ON THE CAMPUS FOR A SPOT OF TEA...
"QUITE UN-EXPECTED" -LY, THE OTHER PROFESSORs THERE ONE-BY-ONE
GO BY HIS TABLE + EACH DROPs A BALL-POINT-PEN INTO HIS LAP...
THIS IS ---(LIKE)--- A ANCIENT-CEREMONY RITUAL AT PRINCETON:
LIKE: THE HIGH-EST HONOR POSSIBLE: THE EQUIVALENT OF A WISE-GUY
BE-ING ANNOINTED AS A "MADE-MAN"...
IT's A GREAT MOVIE: U GOTTA SEE IT !!
SINCERE-LY...PERFESSER CREEK-WATER (MARK DORAZIO)
12 MARCH 2002 / NEWARK / DELAWARE / USA
creekwater@hotmail.com
PERFESSER CREEK-WATER IS A UD ALUMNUS, CLASS OF 1971...
HE MAJOR'D IN COMPUTER-SCIENCE BACK WHEN DINOSAURs +
IBM PUNCH-CARDs ROAM'D THE EARTH... HE DOES NOT RE-
-MEMBER MUCH FROM THAT TIME, BUT HAS RECENT-LY LEARN'D
TO POINT+CLICK, WHICH IS ---(LIKE)--- ALL U NEED
TO KNOW, RIGHT ??
PLUS: HIS PERSONAL-LIFE HAS PARALLEL'D PROFESSOR
NASH IN SEVERAL WAYs... FOR EXAMPLE, HE ONCE-UPON-A-
-TIME THOUGHT HE COULD, BY A SERIEs OF LOGICAL+REASON-
-ABLE ACTIONs, "SAVE" "THE WORLD"... HAPPY-LY, HE
NO LONGER HARBORs ANY SUCH DELUSIONs...