-see "Proof" (PROOF)
Director: John Madden
Starring: Anthony Hopkins Anthony Hopkins Gwyneth Paltrow
Movie Title: Proof
Released Year: 2005
Language: English
Production Country/Region: United States
imdb Number: tt0377107
AKA: Evidence Verification
Take a random film, which is based on the film "Proof" (PROOF) adapted from a Broadway stage play.
Before that, I didn’t know much about Peter Siegel. I only knew that "50 First Loves" starred by Drew Barrymore and "The Fatty Professor" starring Eddie Murphy were all very impressive. comedy. I don't know why Peter wanted to make the film "Evidence". After watching the beginning, I felt that I was not interested in this film. Because it involves mathematics. And I was a person who hated mathematics since I was a child. Not only that, but I also hate math teachers, chemistry teachers, and physics teachers. They have never been kind to me in their classes. Either they smashed my abacus board with their pointers, or they shredded my exam papers. The first time I cheated in my life was because
I was found to have copied three formulas on draft paper when I was taking math tests... Actually, I know Learning a little bit of mathematics and physical chemistry is not bad for me, at least it can solve some simple problems in life, but education makes me hate them.
After watching the full movie, I suddenly realized that it is not very annoying. At least it taught me how to get free as soon as I lost a loved one. The formula can be rigid and lifeless, but the sophistication is alive. When your life is bubbling because of your only remaining humanity and feelings, the boring and lifelessness in your life can be ignored. It is not difficult to understand that this film involves mathematics, theory, and basis, but it tends to be emotional. Father and daughter, sisters, love... these cannot be simply calculated from the results.
But what I have doubts about is that the daughter of a famous mathematician is also a mathematician who has studied in mathematics. Her emotions are so deep that her father's death almost broke her and she can't face her future life. Until the student of mathematician played by Gyllenhaal appeared, their love saved her. In my impression, mathematicians and physicists, except for their basis in life, often have a dark face and no expression. Maybe they have feelings, but they hide deeply and don't show it easily. This film turned over many friends who are addicted to science and academia.
The line of the story is: the death of his father left his youngest daughter Catherine in an incapable sadness for a long time, and the eldest daughter came to Chicago to pick her up to New York. In this process, funerals, love, and a period of doubt about academic argumentation went hand in hand, slowly unfolding. Catherine abandoned the ritual reading at her father's funeral. She rushed to the stage and roared angrily at the crowd: Where were you five years ago? In his twenties, his father enjoyed a high reputation in society because of mathematical theory, but in his old age, he suffered a sudden schizophrenia. In the five years before his death, he was alone, alone with the book, and Catherine was alone in taking care of him. . In her heart, she called for him to "live" and regain the respect of the world. However, in the snow, she took the notes he had rushed to write, and it was all a mess of nonsense. He was crazy, but he was still living in the atmosphere of his hard research. Catherine wrote an argumentative essay, locked in her father's drawer, and no one believed that she wrote it after being discovered, including her sister. However, the truth is that Catherine did. She inherited her father's talent for mathematics, but at the same time she was worried about whether she would inherit the cause of the disease in sorrow.
This is the second stage play of the young playwright David Oban, who won the Pulitzer Prize that year. After the play was put on stage, it was very popular, and it was put on the screen by Peter Siegel. Of course, the silver screen is much more free to show the scene than the stage, and the inner emotions of the characters will be portrayed in more detail. And I can see that such a sad emotional and ethical drama will definitely get a lot of psychological resonance from the audience. It is said that Gwyneth Paltrow also happened to experience the pain of her father’s loss, and she should have integrated her personal emotions in the acting. However, Antonio Hopkins did not make many appearances, he only lived in reality. In the imagination and memories of the past, in just a few performances, he fully grasped the old age of a schizophrenic mathematician who had worked hard. Needless to say, Gyllenhaal is quite a bit different in age from Gwyneth, and in recent years he has filmed many classics, such as "Broken Arms Mountain" and "Broken Head", all of which have excellent performances. This little boy has already opened up his own territory in the show business world. I have never watched a stage play, but these four characters are definitely indispensable. The old father may be placed in the scene of "talking to the dead". Although it is not the main line of contradiction, it greatly enriches the connotation of the play. And time and space.
And the appearance of the "argument" notebook caused a little contradiction. Although it was not a big contradiction, it suddenly revealed the core point of the whole play: negligence of people around you can lead to suspicion, and suspicion itself is the most dangerous thing that points to oneself. arms. In the film, her sister's unbelievable expression and even her boyfriend's noncommittal attitude should disappoint Catherine. She locked the notebook in her father's drawer, maybe she wanted to regain her father's sober awareness of academic research, let him see it, and wake him up. When her father left, people couldn't believe that she also had such extraordinary talents. In a great sense, her father's brilliance covered her, so people's habitual thinking always prevented them from recognizing. Of course, the film finally settled on "emotion", not in the dispute of this "argument" event, otherwise it would become a farce. Finally, the boyfriend read from the "argumentation" notes about the emerging ideas that emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, he understood, and love returned. She woke up from sorrow. In the last scene, she was sitting on the stone stool in the X-shaped campus atrium, and he came. The fate is unknown, but let everyone who knows how to hold back to find happiness. This is still a fair theoretical formula. very nice.
September 26
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