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Movie Review: A Beautiful Mind (Howard)

I'm definitely not the world's biggest Russell Crowe fan, although I did really enjoy Romper Stomper, and The Insider was a nice 3 hour distraction during a parental visit, but I would see just about any movie that has a mathematician as the protagonist. Science people treated like rock stars, that is my goal for the world. And I knew this movie was not going to be about the math at all, so I wasn't disappointed by that. It focused on the story of John Nash's schizophrenia and how, through sheer willpower, he learned how to deal with it. A very amazing story, and it was well told, although there was definitely some excessively emotional sequences that you should expect from a Ron Howard movie. Despite that manipulation, I enjoyed it well enough, and there were some good performances in it. Jennifer Connelly did a great job making me not be annoyed with her decision to give up her life for her husband's.

And my fun John Nash fact is that he graduated from CMU for his undergrad degree. Yay, CMU alumni.