I am a big scifi/action movie fan - from Arnold to Mel to Bruce - they're all good and always a great ride. This time I thought I would try something I heard about (Proof) which reminded me of another movie (A Beautiful Mind) and so I tried it.
This was a good movie, but decidedly, like the ending, lacking a goal. It began, explained relationships among the actors, ... I mean characters, and then softly ended. For me it was all "middle." No extremes - there was shouting, but I didn't feel a thing for any of the characters. Well, the math professor in his office I liked. For some reason my interest peaked when he got to do some lines.
Maybe it was me. But this movie seemed like an hour and a half of talking without any emotion. I mean the movie didn't build the relationship between the daughter and her father; the boyfriend and the daughter; the daughter and her sister. All I could do was keep waiting to feel something for any of the main characters... and nothing happened.
I'll say this - I enjoyed the movie b/c I know what it is like to work on a physics research project albeit math is especially difficult. The last famous proof I heard of was Fermat's principle - the proof was over 250 pages and used geometry as well as other areas of mathematics. So having a scientific background may help you watch this movie through, but feel any interest? Nope. It was more of a relationship movie than a movie about math and the people in it.
Maybe that's it! The movie had nothing to do with the math and was in reality a flick for emotionalism - only using math to entice poor souls like me willing to try something that may be intellectually interesting. It was just that and just not interesting. 7 out of 10.
-Zafoid
PS: the end wasn't an end. The movie just stopped leaving you without any closure. After thinking about it I guess that's like life... but then again we do get to see what happens _in the end_.
-Z
This was a good movie, but decidedly, like the ending, lacking a goal. It began, explained relationships among the actors, ... I mean characters, and then softly ended. For me it was all "middle." No extremes - there was shouting, but I didn't feel a thing for any of the characters. Well, the math professor in his office I liked. For some reason my interest peaked when he got to do some lines.
Maybe it was me. But this movie seemed like an hour and a half of talking without any emotion. I mean the movie didn't build the relationship between the daughter and her father; the boyfriend and the daughter; the daughter and her sister. All I could do was keep waiting to feel something for any of the main characters... and nothing happened.
I'll say this - I enjoyed the movie b/c I know what it is like to work on a physics research project albeit math is especially difficult. The last famous proof I heard of was Fermat's principle - the proof was over 250 pages and used geometry as well as other areas of mathematics. So having a scientific background may help you watch this movie through, but feel any interest? Nope. It was more of a relationship movie than a movie about math and the people in it.
Maybe that's it! The movie had nothing to do with the math and was in reality a flick for emotionalism - only using math to entice poor souls like me willing to try something that may be intellectually interesting. It was just that and just not interesting. 7 out of 10.
-Zafoid
PS: the end wasn't an end. The movie just stopped leaving you without any closure. After thinking about it I guess that's like life... but then again we do get to see what happens _in the end_.
-Z