| Written by Diana, on 19-06-2007 02:05 |
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I'm watching A Beautiful Mind. It's weird. In graduate school, working on his doctorate, he's a very disturbed mind. When he fails, his disturbed mind falls apart. Five years later, he's confident, pulled together, and apparently he "never fails." How does he become another person in just five years? When a girl asks him to have dinner, from that point on, he's a disturbed mind again. I've seen it before, so I'm guessing that when they go on their first date, the two men we see looking at him are not real, the first sign of his schizophrenia.
I wanted to be a mathematician once. I had a lot of things I wanted to be but I loved math in school, even in college I still loved it.
I think to have a genious mind comes without exception, alongside mental illness. Too much of the mind is being used, this obviously allows for genious but the mind must only have a certain capacity, after which madness is the only result. Like while all that activity is going on in the brain, it's killing itself, or altering it in some way, damaging it. I assume John Nash had no family through his life? I'm confused about all the sneaking around. I'm remembering vaguely that the whole classified job thing was in his head but I can't remember. I'd like to fast foward to just see that part. I find this movie frustrating as all hell. It's like his whole life, this whole movie is fake. I mean can you imagine SEEING all this stuff that isn't reall but totally looks real? If someone told you it's not real, it just seems like you'd think they're lying and how else could you ever be convinced otherwise? How do you even begin to think you're a spy and the russians could be after you?? I have a feeling his roommate and the roommate's niece are also all in his head. He's worked for the pentagon four times, that we know because his partner that he works with knows about it, but that was a one time thing. No wonder the guys at the pentagon didn't even remotely respond when he asked about the guy looking down on him from upstairs.
okay now I KNOW the roommate is not really there. That would be so scary, to be married to him, to hear him talking to someone who doesn't exist, to know he's slowly slipping into madness. And then he's not taking his medication so that he can do his math. It's kind of a creepy movie.
Okay I'm really hungery but I ate Starburst today. I REALLY WANT TO STOP EATING and the whole "diet" coke thing just isn't going to work. I hate the taste so much that all I want to do is eat now, instead of going for a soda to avoid eating when I'm having stupid cravings or am hungry but don't want to eat. I'm really hungry though and I have to get up at 7am (!) or in 4.25 hours. And okay, so A Beautiful Mind is great at the end when he takes control of his schizophrenia. It's pretty cool that it's a true story, it just seems like the genius in him is the only thing that allowed him to handle his schizophrenia like that but also a cause of his madness. "Normal" people it doesn't seem would be able to live with it like that. The version I have is from way back when it came out on DVD, it was like the first DVD I ever owned and the sound is really bad. The music is really loud and the talking is really quiet. Usually I have my TV at around 14-15 on the volume and rarely ever go above that, sometimes I even turn it doown because it seems louder than necessary, but I had to turn this movie up to 57 to hear the talking! That's how the first to Farscapes are, like Starburst edition 1.1 and maybe 1.2 as well. The background noises are really loud so you can barely hear them talking unless you turn it up which makes the noise REALLY loud. Okay, I've had enough of sad and "thought provoking" television. I watched "Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D List" earlier which was funny and then I watched the Dateline NBC with Princes William & Harry which was pretty good, but of course there was the "sad" of the whole Princess Diana thing and then I watched Jay Leno (I thought he stopped doing the Tonight Show...?) with Robin Williams and a woman, I can't remember her name but she has a show on E! I think and as of this episode of Leno, her show hadn't aired yet and I saw her show on E! quite a while ago. Anyhow, Robin Williams was very funny and then when this woman came on, oh it was Chelsey Handler (?? I think that's her name), they were very funny together too, they just totally fed on each other's jokes. Then some country singers came on so I just had to turn it off so I put on A Beautiful Mind which was boring, then weird and creepy, then sad to happy/sad. Cartoons please! ;-)
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