Okay I admit Denzel Washington was menacing as a rowdy cop in Training day (2001) but Russell Crowe as John Forbes Nash the brilliant nobel prize winning mathematician was one of the greatest potrayals of all time...
right from the beginning we are an audience to his genius...being innundated with a barrage of mathematical equations thrown at us at breakneck speed...the film's most engaging scene is when a schizophrenic Nash gets the shock treatment ... it always brings a tear to my eye this scene bears a resemblance to the Milos Forman classic One Flew The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)...another disturbing sequence was paid as a tribute in the Kajol starrer ( U,Me aur Hum) when a distracted Nash leaves his new born child at the mercy of water...
Jennifer Connelly (looking smokin' hot as usual) who looks stunning even in her old age,in continuation with her superb performance from Requiem for a dream delivers the goods once again as Nash's wife and winning the oscar along the way proving the theory that behind every successful man there is a woman :-)...adapted from Sylvia Nasar's pulitzer prize nominated novel,many felt there are many differences from the novel when the movie was released...the best adage suited for this movie is that where there is a will there is a way...if we try our best we can do anything we want to do...one very interesting scene is when Nash uses mathematics to explain the theory of dating...an illness can happen to anyone,but only those with a steely grit can recover from it
embellished with a towering and unforgettable performance from Crowe and marvelous dialogues...heart breaking scenes...fine direction from veteran Ron Howard (Apollo 13)....triumphant climax (the pen sequence) and how can i forget the sequence when Nash pays tribute to his wife during the speech ceremony??? He survived everything because of the wonderful support from his wife and no one else...this one is a keeper!!!!!!
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