Back to my big, bad, commenting-on-movies ways: A Beautiful Mind.

I'm finding myself increasingly uninterested in watching movies bearing the appellations of "gripping" or "moving" or "thought-provoking", because I know that what that's really going to translate into is "uncomfortable" and "tiring".

Yes, I'm getting old and boring. I want my movies to be fun. Cool. Matrix Reloaded is looking really good.

So, yeah, I didn't really want to watch this movie. But the opening bit was talking about maths winning wars, and fired with early Cold War zeal, and I remembered that Nash was revolutionary in Game Theory (and whaddya think the first chapter of my thesis is all about?) so I stayed.

There was very little Game Theory. What there was, applied to the mating habits of university males, was very interesting. The rest of the movie was also good. It was moving and thought-provoking and very well made. Russell deserves his acclaim. He was brilliant. And the depiction of his schizophrenia was superb. When reality broke down for him, it broke down for me as well. When he doubted, I doubted. Nothing was ever certain.

I wouldn't watch it again, but it was good. The touches of humour were nice, too. Very dry. Appetising.