This movie is amazing. I would highly recommend watching it. I loved how all the four main characters have such different lives but come together to end up being such amazing friends. The story is all about ongoing relationships, love, and heartbreak.
The whole cast in this movie is truly incredible. Two of my favorites are Blake Lively and Alexis Bledel who play Bridget Vreeland and Lena Kaligaris. These two characters stood out to me because they portray amazing emotion throughout the movie and are amazing actresses.
A Beautiful Mind (2001) Directed by Ron Howard (Apollo 13), Russell Crowe (Gladiator) and Jennifer Connelly (Requiem for a Dream), A Beautiful Mind tells the story of a man with a mind so brilliant that it changed the world – yet so broken that it would turn his own upside down.
John Nash is overbearingly confident, gifted, not exactly the most likable person – but still the tragic hero of his own story. A young and promising graduate of Princeton and recipient of a prestigious mathematics scholarship, John Nash easily rises through the academic ranks of MIT, publishing groundbreaking theories on the fly, and falls in love with his student, the gorgeous and intelligent Alicia Larde. Even more enticing to Nash, however, are the confidential missions being assigned to him by the Pentagon to decode secret Soviet enemy communications that he obsesses over… until the devastating cracks in his mind begin to show. Soon, everything in Nash’s world begins to crumble around him – becoming a prisoner of his own shattered mind, he begins to doubt if his own genius, if anything, is even real.
A Beautiful Mind is a masterpiece on every level – it could be called a drama, a romance, or even a psychological thriller, at times. The awe-inspiring downfall of Nash from the uncontested king of his own world to its pitiful victim is spectacularly played by Russell Crowe, who instead of presenting Nash melodramatically chose to do so with subtle nuances that make his performance all the more impressive. At the end of the day, A Beautiful Mind is a cruel paradox – to think that what brought a man to greatness was the very same thing that ruthlessly betrayed him is painful, to say the least. And so is watching this movie – although its premise is almost always bleak, it manages to place hope just over the horizon until the very end. Whether it all pays off or not, only you can find out by watching it.
We will be featuring the many talented Syosset students and projects we have received over the summer. The following is a Girl Scout Gold Award project from recent graduate Danielle Nodelman. Here is information about her project:
“My name is Danielle Nodelman and I have recently graduated from Syosset High School as a member of the class of 2020. I am also in the process of earning my Girl Scout Gold Award through my Gold Award project for environmental sustainability.
I have created educational environmental videos for varying grade levels, including ones for grades 6-8 and 9-12, and shared them with other troops. A portion of the Girl Scout project requirement is to share my project with and to educate the community.
I feel that this would be a great way to share my project and eco-friendly practices with the Syosset community, as well as help me reach my goal! I have attached links to copies of the middle school grade and high school grade videos as well as the “mini quizzes” that go along with them.”
