Movie reviews
For this project, we required to read a article of the genre that we choose, then we need to write a same type essay like the examples that we read. I choose the movie review as the genre to write about. I choose the movie 'A beautiful mind'. It is a biographic movie. Show the whole life of John Nash - one of the greatest mathematicians of 20th century.
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Madness man with true love
-movie review for ‘A beautiful mind’
What do you think when a madness person just beside you?Most of us will just go away. However in this movie, madness destroy his normal life and make him cannot be understand by other people, but the madness also give him a lot. In real life Nash once said ‘With out the madness, I will be one of billion of those who once lived and finally be forgotten’
This movie was not only a biographic movie but also a movie to praise the power of love. Just like Nash says at the end of the movie :
‘My quest has taken me through the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional -- and back. And I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found. I'm only here tonight because of you (his wife, Alicia). You are the reason I am. You are all my reasons.’ (cited from the movie ‘A Beautiful Mind’)
The movie start with a young man’s perseverance, insist of his own idea, and also the loneliness he take during the process he find his own theory. The movie is a biopic movie, and introduce the process of he find his own theory - ‘Nash equilibrium’ and about his whole life.
Since it is a movie,many parts are different from his really life, however still show people the spirt he has in the way to explore higher knowledge in academic field.
John Forbes Nash, Jr. (born June 13, 1928) is an American mathematician whose works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations have provided insight into the factors. His theory are used in the market economic, competing in really world, biology and also the computer science field. His theory promote the twentieth century’s technology. In his later life, he work as a Senior Research Mathematician at Princeton University and he earned the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is one of the most great Mathematician during the twentieth century.
Since it is a biopic movie and tend to show a real people’s whole life process. So ‘A Beautiful Mind’ use a Chronological order to tell the story. As we all know, Chronological order mean logic and strong structure however also means peaceful, use another word which is boring. So the director need to use other way to enhance the movie’s story. Ronald William Howard the director of this movie use a way to solve this problem - Foreshadowing
At the beginning of this film, Nash sit in a classroom alone, give audience a impression, which is Nash is not good at normal people’s social communication. Or in a another words, he was not good at make friends.
Later, the Nash in the movie, his action prove this impression. For example, he try to accost a pretty girl, however because of his direct and rude language, he has slapped by that girl which was also another start of a foreshadowing. And this girl is also the important point to help him to find the ‘Game theory’. Oppenheimer once says ‘True genius can find the solution before they see the question’, Nash can see the answer from normal things. In this movie there is a part of story show Nash and his schoolmates in a bar and try to get a companion however there was only one pretty girl that they all want so competition between they cannot be void, but Nash says if they all change aim to this pretty girl’s friends instead all go for this girl than her friends they will all win and without heart anyone. That was the start of he find the ‘Game Theory’ .Indubitable, the screenwriter and director superbly use this technique make the movie full of suspense.
Another very important story line in this movie was Nash’s friends, not a really friend but are all imaginary friends. In this movie Nash has been described as a arrogant genius that cannot be understand by other people. We can know this at the start of the movie, he drop all the class because he think the class will slow his mind, he never cares about other people’s thinking and also he if something he cannot understand, that thing must be wrong. For example,at the 11.30 in this movie Nash lose the game of GO, however Nash says “The game has flaws” . Such people should be very lonely, and they desire to be understand, so thats why Nash unfortunately suffering by the schizophrenia.
He images his roommates, who always support and understand him during his hardest time and also a agent from national defense department to require him to solve the code, which means he desire to be wanted and he want to prove his talent and be understand by other people. In this part, this movie did that very prefect, the people he imaged are so real, that make audience thing that should be a real person, however there so many details in the movie show that those people are unreal. Nash’s roommate, who named Charles,he always appear when Nash was in problem and give him the support. After watch this movie and think about that, we all know, Charles has never talk to anybody beside Nash, which is very abnormal.
After Nash get married with his student - Alicia, Alicia find out that Nash was always do strange things and finally find out that Nash has schizophrenia which is cannot be cured by drug,instead, it only can be suppressed. However, if Nash use drugs to suppress his schizophrenia, he cannot think like before, he cannot do the research and cannot see the answer through the problems which destroy the possibility that he improve himself to a higher level in academic field. Alicia did want his husband depressed like this, so she allow Nash stop the drug and try to get over this by his own will. Alicia take the risk of heart by Nash to help him walk out the difficulties.
The whole movie shows a Handsome and very eccentric mathematician John Nash - who invented his famous Game Theory during the process when he is a graduate student. This 26 papers he write have a profound impact on modern economic, military and theory field, he began to own international reputation. But Nash’s superior intuition cause a problem, he plagued by schizophrenia, which making him cannot step on the highest level of academic field. Faced with this problem which once destroy many challenges, under his wife Alicia’s help he fight incurable diseases and finally walk out from the problem. After many years of unremitting efforts, entirely though force of will he finally won the Nobel Prize in 1994, he was quite forward - looking aspect of the work in Game theory has become the 20th century;s most influential theories. Nash has become someone who not only has wonderful emotional and a beautiful mind.
The latter part of the movie move a lot people’s heart, especially at the end of the movie, there is a sentence on the screen ‘The Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash Jr. still teaches at Princeton, and walks to campus every day’ That these common sentences nearly brought tears to my eyes suggests the power of "A Beautiful Mind”. After so many years struggle, he finally can face his disease and say good bye to his imagination friends in a simple smile. The movie tend to show the power of love, even a disease which is incurable can be defeat by this power.
When I first watch this movie , I do not know that it is a biographic movie, actually I know noting about this movie. At the beginning, I though it was love story about a genius and later I though it was a Hollywood SPY movies, and then later when Nash was sent to a mental hospital, I still believe that Charles was a real person, and he is a Russian spy, and hope Nash’s wife be able to find out the truth. Gradually , until everything shows, I found out the truth that I accompanied with Nash to do a psychotic ! Charles does not exist. And What is the real thing of the world and what is the fake and imagination. Later,the story of the movie make me move. It let me know the power of love and time.
For the actor, Russell Ira Crowe act as the Nash in this movie, His control on the personality, details and emotions of the characters the undoubtedly proved his strength of acting skill. This is why I like to watch movies he starred in. He was always able to portray a fictional character vividly. In the movie A Beautiful Mind, Nash is a real life character, but he still be performing so well which really let me amazing.
Although, a wonderful movie like this one, still a lot things were not good. For the art effect, the director sacrifice a lot reality of this story, for other type of movie this will be totally fine, however since this movie is a biopic movie, which means this movie is tend to describe a real person’s life experience. So this make the stories in the movie are unreasonable. And also will cause some misunderstand of the person they try to show. Like the Nash himself in really life , says the movie was very different from this own life. But since this movie’s theme is to show the power of life, those small problems can be accepted .
-movie review for ‘A beautiful mind’
What do you think when a madness person just beside you?Most of us will just go away. However in this movie, madness destroy his normal life and make him cannot be understand by other people, but the madness also give him a lot. In real life Nash once said ‘With out the madness, I will be one of billion of those who once lived and finally be forgotten’
This movie was not only a biographic movie but also a movie to praise the power of love. Just like Nash says at the end of the movie :
‘My quest has taken me through the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional -- and back. And I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found. I'm only here tonight because of you (his wife, Alicia). You are the reason I am. You are all my reasons.’ (cited from the movie ‘A Beautiful Mind’)
The movie start with a young man’s perseverance, insist of his own idea, and also the loneliness he take during the process he find his own theory. The movie is a biopic movie, and introduce the process of he find his own theory - ‘Nash equilibrium’ and about his whole life.
Since it is a movie,many parts are different from his really life, however still show people the spirt he has in the way to explore higher knowledge in academic field.
John Forbes Nash, Jr. (born June 13, 1928) is an American mathematician whose works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations have provided insight into the factors. His theory are used in the market economic, competing in really world, biology and also the computer science field. His theory promote the twentieth century’s technology. In his later life, he work as a Senior Research Mathematician at Princeton University and he earned the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is one of the most great Mathematician during the twentieth century.
Since it is a biopic movie and tend to show a real people’s whole life process. So ‘A Beautiful Mind’ use a Chronological order to tell the story. As we all know, Chronological order mean logic and strong structure however also means peaceful, use another word which is boring. So the director need to use other way to enhance the movie’s story. Ronald William Howard the director of this movie use a way to solve this problem - Foreshadowing
At the beginning of this film, Nash sit in a classroom alone, give audience a impression, which is Nash is not good at normal people’s social communication. Or in a another words, he was not good at make friends.
Later, the Nash in the movie, his action prove this impression. For example, he try to accost a pretty girl, however because of his direct and rude language, he has slapped by that girl which was also another start of a foreshadowing. And this girl is also the important point to help him to find the ‘Game theory’. Oppenheimer once says ‘True genius can find the solution before they see the question’, Nash can see the answer from normal things. In this movie there is a part of story show Nash and his schoolmates in a bar and try to get a companion however there was only one pretty girl that they all want so competition between they cannot be void, but Nash says if they all change aim to this pretty girl’s friends instead all go for this girl than her friends they will all win and without heart anyone. That was the start of he find the ‘Game Theory’ .Indubitable, the screenwriter and director superbly use this technique make the movie full of suspense.
Another very important story line in this movie was Nash’s friends, not a really friend but are all imaginary friends. In this movie Nash has been described as a arrogant genius that cannot be understand by other people. We can know this at the start of the movie, he drop all the class because he think the class will slow his mind, he never cares about other people’s thinking and also he if something he cannot understand, that thing must be wrong. For example,at the 11.30 in this movie Nash lose the game of GO, however Nash says “The game has flaws” . Such people should be very lonely, and they desire to be understand, so thats why Nash unfortunately suffering by the schizophrenia.
He images his roommates, who always support and understand him during his hardest time and also a agent from national defense department to require him to solve the code, which means he desire to be wanted and he want to prove his talent and be understand by other people. In this part, this movie did that very prefect, the people he imaged are so real, that make audience thing that should be a real person, however there so many details in the movie show that those people are unreal. Nash’s roommate, who named Charles,he always appear when Nash was in problem and give him the support. After watch this movie and think about that, we all know, Charles has never talk to anybody beside Nash, which is very abnormal.
After Nash get married with his student - Alicia, Alicia find out that Nash was always do strange things and finally find out that Nash has schizophrenia which is cannot be cured by drug,instead, it only can be suppressed. However, if Nash use drugs to suppress his schizophrenia, he cannot think like before, he cannot do the research and cannot see the answer through the problems which destroy the possibility that he improve himself to a higher level in academic field. Alicia did want his husband depressed like this, so she allow Nash stop the drug and try to get over this by his own will. Alicia take the risk of heart by Nash to help him walk out the difficulties.
The whole movie shows a Handsome and very eccentric mathematician John Nash - who invented his famous Game Theory during the process when he is a graduate student. This 26 papers he write have a profound impact on modern economic, military and theory field, he began to own international reputation. But Nash’s superior intuition cause a problem, he plagued by schizophrenia, which making him cannot step on the highest level of academic field. Faced with this problem which once destroy many challenges, under his wife Alicia’s help he fight incurable diseases and finally walk out from the problem. After many years of unremitting efforts, entirely though force of will he finally won the Nobel Prize in 1994, he was quite forward - looking aspect of the work in Game theory has become the 20th century;s most influential theories. Nash has become someone who not only has wonderful emotional and a beautiful mind.
The latter part of the movie move a lot people’s heart, especially at the end of the movie, there is a sentence on the screen ‘The Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash Jr. still teaches at Princeton, and walks to campus every day’ That these common sentences nearly brought tears to my eyes suggests the power of "A Beautiful Mind”. After so many years struggle, he finally can face his disease and say good bye to his imagination friends in a simple smile. The movie tend to show the power of love, even a disease which is incurable can be defeat by this power.
When I first watch this movie , I do not know that it is a biographic movie, actually I know noting about this movie. At the beginning, I though it was love story about a genius and later I though it was a Hollywood SPY movies, and then later when Nash was sent to a mental hospital, I still believe that Charles was a real person, and he is a Russian spy, and hope Nash’s wife be able to find out the truth. Gradually , until everything shows, I found out the truth that I accompanied with Nash to do a psychotic ! Charles does not exist. And What is the real thing of the world and what is the fake and imagination. Later,the story of the movie make me move. It let me know the power of love and time.
For the actor, Russell Ira Crowe act as the Nash in this movie, His control on the personality, details and emotions of the characters the undoubtedly proved his strength of acting skill. This is why I like to watch movies he starred in. He was always able to portray a fictional character vividly. In the movie A Beautiful Mind, Nash is a real life character, but he still be performing so well which really let me amazing.
Although, a wonderful movie like this one, still a lot things were not good. For the art effect, the director sacrifice a lot reality of this story, for other type of movie this will be totally fine, however since this movie is a biopic movie, which means this movie is tend to describe a real person’s life experience. So this make the stories in the movie are unreasonable. And also will cause some misunderstand of the person they try to show. Like the Nash himself in really life , says the movie was very different from this own life. But since this movie’s theme is to show the power of life, those small problems can be accepted .
Peer review for Siyuan Luo
Shawshank Redemption which is one of my favorite movies, I read and watch both the novel and movie. The story of it really catch my mind. The story it self dose not have any visual or sound impact, the director just use the most common way to show the story. Luo analysis this movie very carefully and completely. For example, when Luo talk about some stories in the movie, she will just put where those come out in a parentheses. Which is very clear to understand.
At the start of the Luo’s movie review she start with a definition ‘Movies are a way of connecting both the directors and the audience with a storyline that captures their minds and makes sense to them to a certain extent.’ Which was a little bit long, however its a great start that for the readers to understand what theme she is going to talk about. A clear start, which is very good.
After that Luo summary the movie by simple words in first paragraph, very short and clear start for a movie review, which is very easy for readers to understand what the movie is even they did not watch the movie. Since some people like watch the movie after read some movie reviews, this step come to be a very necessary step for a movie review.
And in the paragraph besides the last one, Luo analysis the movie very carefully start with a short explain to the story she want to talk about and analysis by her own feelings and also in an objective way. Make people understand this movie much more deeper than in another way.
At the last paragraph, Luo express the conclusion of her own, make the whole article in a very logic structure. Which is very good.
However, there are still some disadvantage inside her paper. I just think that she use too many words to explain the story in paragraph 2 and 3, which is fine but may make the readers a little bit boring. And also, she did not cite the resource she use, which is fine, since it was just a rough draft.
All and all, it is nice movie review.
Shawshank Redemption which is one of my favorite movies, I read and watch both the novel and movie. The story of it really catch my mind. The story it self dose not have any visual or sound impact, the director just use the most common way to show the story. Luo analysis this movie very carefully and completely. For example, when Luo talk about some stories in the movie, she will just put where those come out in a parentheses. Which is very clear to understand.
At the start of the Luo’s movie review she start with a definition ‘Movies are a way of connecting both the directors and the audience with a storyline that captures their minds and makes sense to them to a certain extent.’ Which was a little bit long, however its a great start that for the readers to understand what theme she is going to talk about. A clear start, which is very good.
After that Luo summary the movie by simple words in first paragraph, very short and clear start for a movie review, which is very easy for readers to understand what the movie is even they did not watch the movie. Since some people like watch the movie after read some movie reviews, this step come to be a very necessary step for a movie review.
And in the paragraph besides the last one, Luo analysis the movie very carefully start with a short explain to the story she want to talk about and analysis by her own feelings and also in an objective way. Make people understand this movie much more deeper than in another way.
At the last paragraph, Luo express the conclusion of her own, make the whole article in a very logic structure. Which is very good.
However, there are still some disadvantage inside her paper. I just think that she use too many words to explain the story in paragraph 2 and 3, which is fine but may make the readers a little bit boring. And also, she did not cite the resource she use, which is fine, since it was just a rough draft.
All and all, it is nice movie review.
Reflective essay
-a process to write a movie review
I choose movie reviews for my project three’s theme. Just same as the theme I choose in first project. The different is this time is much harder than the first one. We required to write an essay based on the genre we choose. Instead of just analysis the genre we are interested in.
I start with choose the movie. Nowadays, there are thousands of wonderful movies to choose. Many of them just focus on visual impact, which is really hard for me to analysis that kind of movie. Since those movies always have one theme - save the world. However, those movies which focus on the visual impact are always very impressive and interesting. And some of the movies are focus on tell or teach people something which means that kind of movie usually kind of boring for me. Thats the reason why I choose ‘A Beautiful Mind’, since it is a movie have clear and deep theme and it’s story is not so flat.
After I choose this movie to write about, I cannot just start, I need to collect example essay and resource to help me to write this essay. And I just find out it was not simple as I thought at the beginning. It should include a lot of details analysis and background introduction, then it can be a good movie review, instead of just say this is a wonderful movie.
I back to watch the movie besides just start with the impression I have in memory. It takes me really long time to understand this movie. I need to focus on the screen to make sure I did not miss anything valuable to write about. After that, I read a lot about John Nash - the major character of the movie. John Nash is a real person, so I need to understand his background much more than I write a movie with a fantasy person.
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Finally, I finish my paper. And I learn a lot just as before.
The process of collect and read sample essay and resources is a good practice for my. Which is very helpful for my other class’s paper work. I know how to collect the information I need efficiently and correctly instead of waste my time on it.
The peer review latter, although I did not finish my rough draft at that time, the peer review still help me a lot. Because at first I choose the same movie as the first project I choose. Which is hard for me to write it again. So I tend to change the movie I want to write about. And I discuss this with my teammates, and they really give me a lot help. They tell how to find the movie reviews I want to look at on the website, and also what kind of things I need to include in my movie reviews. This time’s peer review work better than last time. It practice my ability to find out the lake part of an essay and give the right suggestion, also practice my ability that how to accept those suggestions given by my teammates and transfer the suggestions to the things I need.
In this essay, I still have a lot bad part. As I mentioned in the first essay, I was lake of well structure an essay, and this time it happen again. When I first finish my final draft, I cannot put every paragraph in a nice and logical order. It make my movie review off when someone try to read it. After last class, I add a theme paragraph on my essay and fix a lot about that, It read much better now, however still not well structured. That the essential problem I need to focus on and work through it now. Another problem is, this time I did not have a nice conclusion paragraph.
I will keep working on those two problems and try my best to write a better essay in the final project. Hope the worse structure dose not trouble my professor > _< !, and I was willing to have a better grade next time !
-a process to write a movie review
I choose movie reviews for my project three’s theme. Just same as the theme I choose in first project. The different is this time is much harder than the first one. We required to write an essay based on the genre we choose. Instead of just analysis the genre we are interested in.
I start with choose the movie. Nowadays, there are thousands of wonderful movies to choose. Many of them just focus on visual impact, which is really hard for me to analysis that kind of movie. Since those movies always have one theme - save the world. However, those movies which focus on the visual impact are always very impressive and interesting. And some of the movies are focus on tell or teach people something which means that kind of movie usually kind of boring for me. Thats the reason why I choose ‘A Beautiful Mind’, since it is a movie have clear and deep theme and it’s story is not so flat.
After I choose this movie to write about, I cannot just start, I need to collect example essay and resource to help me to write this essay. And I just find out it was not simple as I thought at the beginning. It should include a lot of details analysis and background introduction, then it can be a good movie review, instead of just say this is a wonderful movie.
I back to watch the movie besides just start with the impression I have in memory. It takes me really long time to understand this movie. I need to focus on the screen to make sure I did not miss anything valuable to write about. After that, I read a lot about John Nash - the major character of the movie. John Nash is a real person, so I need to understand his background much more than I write a movie with a fantasy person.
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Finally, I finish my paper. And I learn a lot just as before.
The process of collect and read sample essay and resources is a good practice for my. Which is very helpful for my other class’s paper work. I know how to collect the information I need efficiently and correctly instead of waste my time on it.
The peer review latter, although I did not finish my rough draft at that time, the peer review still help me a lot. Because at first I choose the same movie as the first project I choose. Which is hard for me to write it again. So I tend to change the movie I want to write about. And I discuss this with my teammates, and they really give me a lot help. They tell how to find the movie reviews I want to look at on the website, and also what kind of things I need to include in my movie reviews. This time’s peer review work better than last time. It practice my ability to find out the lake part of an essay and give the right suggestion, also practice my ability that how to accept those suggestions given by my teammates and transfer the suggestions to the things I need.
In this essay, I still have a lot bad part. As I mentioned in the first essay, I was lake of well structure an essay, and this time it happen again. When I first finish my final draft, I cannot put every paragraph in a nice and logical order. It make my movie review off when someone try to read it. After last class, I add a theme paragraph on my essay and fix a lot about that, It read much better now, however still not well structured. That the essential problem I need to focus on and work through it now. Another problem is, this time I did not have a nice conclusion paragraph.
I will keep working on those two problems and try my best to write a better essay in the final project. Hope the worse structure dose not trouble my professor > _< !, and I was willing to have a better grade next time !
Work Cited
- Movie ‘A beautiful Mind’ director by Ronald William Howard, 2001 American, DreamWorks
-‘Autobiography. Nobel Foundation’. John F. Nash, Jr. 1994 ,February 5, 2011
-’A Beautiful Mind movie review’, Roger Ebert, December 21, 2001
-‘Non-Cooperative Games’,John F. Nash , The Annals of Mathematics 1951
- Movie ‘A beautiful Mind’ director by Ronald William Howard, 2001 American, DreamWorks
-‘Autobiography. Nobel Foundation’. John F. Nash, Jr. 1994 ,February 5, 2011
-’A Beautiful Mind movie review’, Roger Ebert, December 21, 2001
-‘Non-Cooperative Games’,John F. Nash , The Annals of Mathematics 1951