Proof (2005)
When I read this movie’s synopsis, I thought here’s something I would like. It seems good. It’s also a Pulitzer Prize winning play I think and the last play-turned-movie that I watched was Closer and I loved that. It was really great.. So this should be good. If you read the synopsis you’d think that it sounds like A Beautiful Mind. Its because the writer based the story on John Nash the guy A Beautiful was based on. The story: Anthony Hopkins plays this Maths genius who in his early 20s made two great contributions to the world of mathematics. He has ever since then tried to recapture that genius and find another proof. In the process he loses his mind. Gwyneth Paltrow play Catherine the loyal daughter who takes care of him refusing to put him in a home and giving up school and basically having a life until the day he died. When her father dies she seems kind of stranded not knowing what to make out of her life. She becomes angry with her sister who seemed to have taken no role in taking care of their father. And it doesn’t help that she comes a day or so before the funeral and fuss about Catherine. I liked that scene at the funeral where Catherine started attacking the people who attended her father’s funeral and their phoniness by saying…where were all of them when he was sick. After her father’s death Catherine is forced to rethink her life and she fears that she might not only inherit his genius but also his insanity. Catherine starts to befriend an ex student of her father, Hal, who has been hanging around the house searching for anything that may lead to a proof that her father might have written when he was crazy. And of course they start to fall for each other, and she lets Hal find a proof which she claims that she has written…not her father, the genius. Of course Hal doesn’t believe her. So does the sister and this to her, validates the fact that Catherine is going crazy and wants her to get help. Even we as the audience wonders if she really is crazy. We find out in the end. A great movie. An emotional drama. A fine performance. Why have I heard little, close to nothing about it? Am I the only one who thought it was good?
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