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| |  | Items by Class Year | Home » » A Beautiful Mind | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | Winner of 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, A Beautiful Mind is directed by Academy Award winner Ron Howard and produced by long-time partner and collaborator, Academy Award winner Brian Grazer. A Beautiful Mind stars Russell Crowe in an astonishing performance as brilliant mathematician John Nash, on the brink of international acclaim when he becomes entangled in a mysterious conspiracy. Now only his devoted wife (Academy Award winner Jennifer Connelly) can help him in this powerful story of courage, passion and triumph. | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly | | Format:
| AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Subtitle:
| English, French, Spanish | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Universal Studios | | Run Time:
| 136 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| August 22, 2006 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 40 reviews |
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 Please Mr. TepiJul 16, 2010
The ubiquitous "inner city gangbanger" doesn't exist as such. I grant you the concept is real in the sense of being a solid idea that describes a particular phenomena. However, once investigated, this immediately falls apart. It doesn't stand up to direct personal experience the same way most categorizations do not. By the way, great movie. Please enjoy:-)
my favorite movieJul 14, 2010
i love this movie. it's about a guy that goes undiagnosed with schizophrenia for years. it's more of a love story than anything.. thought provoking and emotionally raw at same time. definitely a tear jerker.
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Schizophrenia - Curse or Blessing?Jun 24, 2010
I thoroughly enjoyed 'A Beautiful Mind.' It's one of those very rare movies made for an audience of reasonably mature and intelligent adults as opposed to low IQ inner-city gangbangers with a mental age of around 14 who seem to be the target audience of most Hollywood fare today.
The plot is different and holds our interest to the end; the camera work is technical perfection with none of that faddish hand-held camera nonsense; the Princeton settings are gorgeous; and the actors are without exception excellent, with Russell Crowe giving a sensitive and totally convincing performance as the brilliant and afflicted mathematician, John Nash, a man suffering from schizophrenia.
But what exactly is schizophrenia? According to Wikipedia, it is "a mental disorder characterized by abnormalities in the perception or expression of reality. It most commonly manifests as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking with significant social or occupational dysfunction" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia).
This seems clear enough, since we have all been convinced of the reality of "mental" illness. But if we turn to Thomas Szasz Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry we find a highly intelligent professional psychiatrist informing us that, not only is schizophrenia a myth, but that there is no such thing as "mental illness", the term "illness" being something that can legitimately be applied only to physical bodies and not to minds, mind being something of an entirely different order.
So what's going on here? In the movie, Nash is eventually able to come to terms with his schizophrenia by realizing that the figures he continues to hallucinate, and who seem to him to be flesh-and-blood realities every bit as real as the people around him, are wholly illusory and simply projections of his own mind.
If he had been born in Asia and had come in contact with the non-dual perspective he might have learned that the whole of reality is similarly a projection of mind and entirely illusory; that his mind is only doing what is natural to it in projecting a world made entirely of Consciousness; and that the only difference between him and others is that, by some quirk, his mind has added a few extra events (which only he is able to perceive) to the world he shares with all of us. He might then have gone on to realize that, by leading him to a truer understanding of mind, what seemed to him at first to be a curse was in fact a Grace.
These notions lead us into the field of Nonduality and anyone interested in pursuing them further could do no better than to read a book such as Leo Hartong's Awakening to the Dream. Of the vast literature on Nonduality, this is the simplest and clearest account I've ever found.
But to return to the movie, please don't miss it. At its best, the modern movie can and should be a work of art, and the movie 'A Beautiful Mind' certainly qualifies as that.
Russell Crowe's best performanceJun 23, 2010
This movie tells the story of mathematician John Nash who was diagnosed with schizophrenia. This film tells the story of his struggle and victory with his mental illness. It is incredibly directed, written and filmed. It is also one of the most moving films I have ever seen. This film carries a power unlike any other. Russell Crowe turns in the best performance of his career. Words cannot contain the power of his performance. He was robbed at the Oscars. Denzel Washington was great in Training Day, but nowhere near as good as this. This is one of my favorite films.
5/5
Beautifully MovingMay 31, 2010
Beautiful Mind, A (2001) ***** |C--138 min.| D: Ron Howard. Russell Crowe, Jenifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Judd Hirsch, Anthony Rapp, Jason Grey-Stanford, Josh Lucas, Christopher Plummer. PG-13
An amazing triumph of a film about the life of famous mathematician, John Forbes Nash, Jr. (Crowe) and his battle with paranoid schizophrenia. It is both Ron Howard's and Russell Crowe's masterpiece. An absolute genius of a film. Crowe's performance is excellent. He captures the brilliance and the madness of the man he is portraying and adds the third dimension to his character, creating a moving and truly amazing performance, almost as good as Meryl Streep in SOPHIE'S CHOICE. There is not a bad moment in this film, and the movie keeps its audience captivated from beginning to end. There is a surprise around every corner, and it never dulls. The movie is a true work of art. It's a mystery, a thriller, a love story, a political thriller, a psychological horror film, all in one. Every character is crafted beautifully by Howard and his writer, Akiva Goldsman. The director's vision shines here. His use of highlights in the picture, and long, sweeping shots give this a surreal feeling like no other film. It's a touching, emotional journey full of gripping drama and an inspiring story to tell. To miss this would be a travesty. Won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director (Ron Howard), Best Supporting Actress (Jenifer Connelly), and two others.
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