美丽心灵
Russell Crowe stars as John Forbes Nash Jr., who we meet as he arrives to Princeton University in 1947, a poor young man whose remarkable skills in mathematics won him a scholarship. He doesn't really fit in with the other students though, and he has no interest in actually going to classes. He just wants to find a truly original theory, to think of something that will matter. Something that will make him matter. He does calculate some brilliant stuff, which opens up opportunities for him, all the way to a code breaking gig at the Pentagon, but something is tearing him loose : schizophrenia. Combined with Cold War-era conspiracy theories paranoia, this might make him go totally insane. All he's got left is his caring wife Alicia (Jennifer Connelly), and even she is tempted to give up on him.
It's taken me a while to process my feelings on Ron Howard's latest film, as they're kind of confused. In short, I thought the first act was mediocre, then the film did something I perceived as a cheat, but finally it redeemed itself in its powerful last hour. So how am I supposed to review the whole film, as I found its first half to be generic and maudlin, but by the end I was moved to tears? Well, let's start at the beginning, or the "Good Will Hunting" part. These early scenes aren't that bad, they're just bland and harmless. Nash is somehow interesting already, with subtle hints of personality troubles, but he's surrounded by walking clichés, like the snobbish daddy's boy (Josh Lucas), the wisecracking buddies, the kind old teacher, or a newer obligatory staple (see also : "Notting Hill", "Undeclared"), the quirky British roommate (Paul Bettany). Plus, it's all so timid, a little joke here, a little touching moment there. Yawn.
Another thing that bothered me was the seemingly random, unnatural pacing. It's the first day of the semester, then wham!, it's six months down the line, boom!, Nash's made his discovery, watch out! It's now five years later and he's called in to break some Soviet code. It gets even more frustrating when Nash starts teaching and Alicia, who's his student, catches his eye. It literally goes from 'what's your name' to 'I find you attractive' to 'will you marry me?' to 'you're pregnant?!' Meanwhile, Nash, is recruited by a Secretary of Defence agent (Ed Harris) who wants him to peruse periodicals to look for secret Communist codes. Come again? That's not all, there's tense dropouts, mysterious men in black, chases, shoot-outs. It makes little sense, and it's hardly all that interesting. I was ready to pan the film.
Oh, but wait a second there, that's only the first hour or so of the film, before what I called the big cheat. Don't worry, I'm not gonna spoil it. Let's just say that the film reveals that it isn't really concerned with code cracking or Nash' love life; "A Beautiful Mind" is ultimately about one man's struggle to retain his sanity, to sort out his mind at once capable of genius and madness. Once the narrative settles on this, the film becomes more and more engrossing. It remains conventional in form as Ron Howard, hardly a daring filmmaker, can't help but go for melodrama and little bittersweet comic beats, or something as predictable and schmaltzy as the "pen scene". But the screenplay by Akiva Goldsman, adapting the Sylvia Nasar novel, presents us with a very interesting, complex character who hits bottom, degrading into the kind of fidgety old weirdo kids mock on the street. This makes his eventual getting back on his feet oh so touching, and I don't think there was a dry eye in the room during the final scene.
It takes many people to make a film, and it's usually unfair to single out an individual as being most responsible for its success, but in this particular case, I feel it's obvious that this is Russell Crowe's movie. Writer Goldsman did, after all, commit "Batman & Robin", and as mentioned, Howard has a tendency to lay things too thick, overdoing each moment as if he's trying to show off to the Academy (but oooooooh, that's not his intent, natch). Fortunately, he's at least made one brilliant decision in casting Russell Crowe, who brings depth, pathos and humanity to his character. We see him age nearly fifty years in the film, and I was never thinking 'make-up', Crowe just seemed older in the way he held himself, spoke and appeared altogether. Likewise, with his schizophrenic behaviour, Crowe is not one to chew scenery and go over the top. This is a performance full of nuances and rough corners. His relationship with Paul Bettany and Ed Harris' characters lingers hauntingly in our minds, and even though it's underwritten, his screwed up romance with Jennifer Connelly is affecting. She herself is pretty good (and gorgeous), despite a false-sounding shrieking breakdown scene.
Overall, I'd pretty much recommend "A Beautiful Mind". There are quite a bit of things to dislike in what can be summed up as a tearjerker posing as a psychological thriller, but ultimately it did surprise me by making me cry, and Crowe's performance alone is worth the admission price. If he hadn't won the Best Actor Oscar last year, I'd say he's sure to get it now, and the movie itself will probably get noticed here and there as a reaction. Check it out.
美丽心灵观后感(The Impression Of A Beautiful Mind)
"A Beautiful Mind" John Nash - Professor biography of his life, or that the story of a true genius.It show us the great of Love, Trust, Friendship.
John Nash is a 100% genius.He get the Ph.D. at 27-year-old and become a mathematics professor at Princeton University.Nash is not many words and refuse sociality.He is very different.. His mind was far more than emotion.At the same time, he is loneliness ,fear of failure and want to get people's approval.So the fantasy figure——Charles appear.It showthe Nash subconsciously want to have friends, to be recognized.
When Nash's schizophrenia another attack, his wife Alicia is also resolutely stand by his side, help him and give him time .He ask help to his friend Martin Hansen because of the love and trust come from his wife Alicia. In the case of his wife and friends Martin Hansen's encouragement, he relies on his will to go on.It could have been an unbelievable story that Nash succeed,but it is ture. Although fantasy Charles, and William Macy in Nash's life has always existed, they are no longer an idea to Nash. on their own willpower, the love of wife and friends to help and care, Nash cure his schizophrenia in a certain extent.
Nash, Alicia and Hansen have a beautiful mind .They set up a bridge leading to a beautiful soul.
美丽心灵观后感(The Impression Of A Beautiful Mind)
Earnest thriller-cum-weepie starring Russell Crowe as a maths genius whose life is wracked by schizophrenia. Stamped all over with 'Hollywood prestige project' and showered with awards
Russell Crowe gets the chance to act his heart out in Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind. Not only does he portray a maths genius (based on real life Nobel Prize-winner John Forbes Nash Jr)， he portrays a maths genius crippled by schizophrenia. And he ages 47 years! He turns in a chunky, twitchy performance which, though not on a par with his more subtle turn in The Insider, is admirable. He is complemented by a less flashy, underwritten turn from Jennifer Connelly.
Princeton, 1947. Awkward but arrogant John Nash arrives on a maths scholarship, determined to come up with an original idea. Not bothering with classes, he obsessively writes theorem (plotting the movements of pigeons, for example)。 His only friend is raffish roommate Charles (Bettany)， a rich source of wisecracks - “Officer, I saw the driver who hit me - his name was Johnny Walker” - and moral support. Eventually Nash comes up with a revolutionary paper that wins him a position at MIT. It's here that his eccentricities give way to madness. Although he marries beautiful student Alicia (Connelly)， the top-secret code-breaking work he is apparently doing for the government - represented by Ed Harris' mysterious agent - pushes him to breaking point. Full-blown paranoid schizophrenia erupts and Nash is hospitalised, his reality a mess of mania and imagination. Three decades of struggle ensue. Although the film leaves out the seedier elements of the real Nash's life (divorce, cottaging)， it fashions a loose biopic that is by turns funny, exciting, sad and downright corny. The script, by Akiva Goldsman, (who also wrote the inexcusable Batman & Robin)， is riddled with pithy, but occasionally clichéd, utterances that capture these shifting tones: there's Nash's description of himself: “I'm quite well balanced - I have a chip on both shoulders” - or the description his doctor, Rosen (Plummer)， later uses to describes his disease to his wife: “The nightmare of schizophrenia is not knowing what's true.”
Although it dallies with Cold War thriller elements, A Beautiful Mind is ultimately a formulaic tale of human perseverance, and merits comparisons with other, similar award-showered tales: notably Shine. As such, it's an above-average weepie, a Hollywood prestige film that pre-packages the sufferings of one highly intelligent man and the woman who loves him to manipulate the emotions. Although the film itself is not as smart as it imagines itself to be, it's certainly artful, with fine camera work by Roger Deakins (who shot the Coens' stylish The Man Who Wasn't There)， and solid, thanks to Howard's even-tempered direction.
A typical Oscars movie. Solid, middle-brow and worthy.
经典电影台词之美丽心灵——悼念纳什
A new study suggests morning people are born, not made.
一项新的研究表明，早睡早起是与生俱来的特质，不是后天养成的。
Here's some good news for all you night owls desperately trying to get better at mornings - new research suggests that it's not your fault that you can't string a sentence together before 9am. You may simply be genetically predisposed to being more productive at night-time.
好消息!还在为晨起打不起精神抓狂的夜猫子们，新的研究表明，9点前连话都说不完整不怪你们啦，或许就是基因决定了你们晚上效率更高。
After investigating the genomes of fruit flies, researchers from the University of Leicester in the UK have identified nearly 80 genes that are linked to a preference for either 'morningness' or 'eveningness'. And although that may sound pretty unrelated to your own body clock, the team showed that most of these genes are found in mammals, too.
在调查了果蝇的基因染色体组后，英国莱斯特大学的研究人员鉴别出了80种和喜欢“早起早睡”或是“晚起晚睡”相关的基因。尽管这听起来和生物钟不甚相关，研究团队表明这些基因也大都可以在哺乳动物身上找到。
Previous research has demonstrated that most people find they're most productive either early in the day or late at night - a preference that's known as a 'chronotype'. And while a lot of studies have looked into the effects of this chronotype, there hasn't been much investigation into what actually causes these differences, up until now.
先前的研究证实大多数人都发觉自己不是在早晨就是晚上效率最高，这种对时间早晚的倾向性就是“睡眠类型”。尽管已有很多关于这种睡眠类型效应的研究，但是，到目前为止，究竟是什么导致了这些差异却鲜有人研究。
"In this new study, we have used fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster), whose gene clocks are very similar to a human's, to get a first insight into the molecular basis of ‘morningness/eveningness’ preference," explained team member Eran Tauber in a press release. "Because this genetic system is so similar between insects and humans, there is a good chance that some of the genes that we have identified in flies, would be also important for diurnal preference in humans."
“这项新研究，我们选用生物钟和人类十分接近的(黄猩猩)果蝇，以初步洞察其偏好‘早起还是晚起’的分子基础，”研究队员埃兰·图博在新闻发布会上解释道。“因为昆虫和人类的遗传体系非常相似，一些我们在果蝇里发现的基因很有可能对人类倾向白天起到重要作用。”
As part of their research, the team identified two different fly strains that were at their most active either in the morning, or the evening, and they then compared and contrasted their genes. They found nearly 80 genes that appear to be linked to the flies' chronotypes, but interestingly, these genes aren't ones that are known to regulate our body clock.Instead, they're involved in a range of molecular pathways.
这项研究中，队员们还鉴别出不是早晨特活跃就是夜晚特活跃的两类果蝇，然后比较、对比了两类果蝇的基因。研究人员发现，将近80种基因似乎和果蝇的“睡眠类型”相关。有意思的是，这些基因并不控制我们的生物钟。相反，这些基因和一系列分子途径有关。
The ultimate goal is to find potential targets for treatments that could help people overcome their evening or morning chronotype. While that sounds a little extreme, it could help prevent a range of disorders, such as obesity and depression, which have been linked to a lifestyle that's out of whack with your body clock.
最终目的是要找到潜在治疗目标，以帮助人们克服晚睡或早起的睡眠类型。尽管这听着有点儿极端，但还是能起到预防疾病的作用，像肥胖症、忧郁症等一系列病症，都是由于生物钟和生活方式不协调所致。
"The rhythm of life is such that for many people the economic or social call to start a new day comes hours before the endogenous call from the body clock. This creates a clock dysfunction that is not only reflected in temporal disorientation and sleep problems, but also in conditions such as obesity, mental illness, cardiovascular disease and cancer," said Taubler.
“生活节奏就是这样的，大多数人都是生物钟还没醒，就因为经济压力或是社会因素开始一天的生活。这样引发的生物钟紊乱问题，不仅影响时间概念和睡眠质量，还会引发肥胖症、精神病、心血管疾病和癌症，”图博如是说。
While I'm not sure I'm ready for medication to help turn me into a morning person just yet, I kind of love the fact that researchers are finally revealing that, biologically, not everyone can function on a 9 to 5 schedule.
虽然我也不大确定自己是不是做好了接受药物治疗的准备，好把自己变成早睡早起的人。不过我还是蛮开心的，研究人员终于揭示了真相，从生物学上讲，不是每个人都能朝九晚五且保持好状态的。
美丽心灵观后感(The Impression Of A Beautiful Mind)
"A Beautiful Mind" John Nash - Professor biography of his life, or that the story of a true genius.It show us the great of Love, Trust, Friendship.
John Nash is a 100% genius.He get the Ph.D. at 27-year-old and become a mathematics professor at Princeton University.Nash is not many words and refuse sociality.He is very different.. His mind was far more than emotion.At the same time, he is loneliness ,fear of failure and want to get people's approval.So the fantasy figure——Charles appear.It showthe Nash subconsciously want to have friends, to be recognized.
When Nash's schizophrenia another attack, his wife Alicia is also resolutely stand by his side, help him and give him time .He ask help to his friend Martin Hansen because of the love and trust come from his wife Alicia. In the case of his wife and friends Martin Hansen's encouragement, he relies on his will to go on.It could have been an unbelievable story that Nash succeed,but it is ture. Although fantasy Charles, and William Macy in Nash's life has always existed, they are no longer an idea to Nash. on their own willpower, the love of wife and friends to help and care, Nash cure his schizophrenia in a certain extent.
Nash, Alicia and Hansen have a beautiful mind .They set up a bridge leading to a beautiful soul.
美丽心灵观后感(The Impression Of A Beautiful Mind)
Earnest thriller-cum-weepie starring Russell Crowe as a maths genius whose life is wracked by schizophrenia. Stamped all over with 'Hollywood prestige project' and showered with awards
Russell Crowe gets the chance to act his heart out in Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind. Not only does he portray a maths genius (based on real life Nobel Prize-winner John Forbes Nash Jr)， he portrays a maths genius crippled by schizophrenia. And he ages 47 years! He turns in a chunky, twitchy performance which, though not on a par with his more subtle turn in The Insider, is admirable. He is complemented by a less flashy, underwritten turn from Jennifer Connelly.
Princeton, 1947. Awkward but arrogant John Nash arrives on a maths scholarship, determined to come up with an original idea. Not bothering with classes, he obsessively writes theorem (plotting the movements of pigeons, for example)。 His only friend is raffish roommate Charles (Bettany)， a rich source of wisecracks - “Officer, I saw the driver who hit me - his name was Johnny Walker” - and moral support. Eventually Nash comes up with a revolutionary paper that wins him a position at MIT. It's here that his eccentricities give way to madness. Although he marries beautiful student Alicia (Connelly)， the top-secret code-breaking work he is apparently doing for the government - represented by Ed Harris' mysterious agent - pushes him to breaking point. Full-blown paranoid schizophrenia erupts and Nash is hospitalised, his reality a mess of mania and imagination. Three decades of struggle ensue. Although the film leaves out the seedier elements of the real Nash's life (divorce, cottaging)， it fashions a loose biopic that is by turns funny, exciting, sad and downright corny. The script, by Akiva Goldsman, (who also wrote the inexcusable Batman & Robin)， is riddled with pithy, but occasionally clichéd, utterances that capture these shifting tones: there's Nash's description of himself: “I'm quite well balanced - I have a chip on both shoulders” - or the description his doctor, Rosen (Plummer)， later uses to describes his disease to his wife: “The nightmare of schizophrenia is not knowing what's true.”
Although it dallies with Cold War thriller elements, A Beautiful Mind is ultimately a formulaic tale of human perseverance, and merits comparisons with other, similar award-showered tales: notably Shine. As such, it's an above-average weepie, a Hollywood prestige film that pre-packages the sufferings of one highly intelligent man and the woman who loves him to manipulate the emotions. Although the film itself is not as smart as it imagines itself to be, it's certainly artful, with fine camera work by Roger Deakins (who shot the Coens' stylish The Man Who Wasn't There)， and solid, thanks to Howard's even-tempered direction.
A typical Oscars movie. Solid, middle-brow and worthy.
