movie of the week: Proof
Monday, June 15, 2009
This week's movie is again one of my favorites. It's about a girl named Catherine, Gweneth Paltrow, who has a gift for math. But, the story begins with her dad, a famous mathematician, already dead. She quit college at Northwestern University to take care of him, he has schitzophrenia, and lost many opportunities for herself by taking care of her dad.
Her sister Claire, Hope Davis, comes the next day for the funurel, so does a guy named Hal, Jake Gylenhall, who teaches mathematics, and had a strange encounter with her the other day. Anyway, the day after the funurel, Catherine gives Hal the key to a drawer. Inside it, he finds a notebook with a full length proof. He and her sister both think it was written by her father. But, she claims she wrote it.
The rest of the movie is filled with flashbacks leading up to the truth of the authorship of the proof, and how proof and trust are two very different things. It is a very good movie with superb writing, and excellent performances, especially from Paltrow and Davis. It was adapted from the play which won the Pulitzer Prize. Tell me what you think of it!
>Matthew
Labels: Matthew Meriwether, movies, Proof
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