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Proof (2005)
Rate:
2
Viewed:
5/08
5/08:
What a boring film Proof is.
There's no story. Nothing new is revealed except for the mathematician who turns out to be insane. That's old news and
thus stereotypical because most aren't like that.
The performances are okay. One thing is for sure: Gwyneth Paltrow can't act. Jake Gyllenhaal seems out of place although he
did see some differential equations in October Sky. On the other hand, I hate the dialogue and the fact that the
words "mathematician" and "mathematics" are mentioned many times. Given Proof is a movie about math,
extraordinarily little of it is shown.
The guy kept saying he had the proof in his hand, and I wanted to see it yet was denied. Come on! What's the point
of making the movie in the first place? That's why I would rather do proofs than watch this bullshit. A similar argument
can be made for the laymen that it's a better to drink a 100 proof alcoholic beverage to save themselves the trouble.
By the way, Ramanujan was the Indian mathematician who said, after seeing it on a taxi cab, 1729 was special because
it was the least number that equaled to the sum of the cubes of two distinct integers in a couple of ways. When I saw
Anthony Hopkins' character trying to pass it off as his own discovery, my mind started to spin violently.
All in all, if Anthony Hopkins only lectured about the joys of mathematics, Proof would've been enjoyable.