A VERY BEAUTIFUL MIND- Cyrus Merchant

A VERY BEAUTIFUL MIND
perseverance is a very powerful prayer. it was the chant that brought alicia and john nash out of their twenty-year ordeal. their story of love forms in the ultimate analysis of a beautiful mind, the answer to all, not just mental pain. it takes the last scene in the beautiful stockholm hall to bring one man's circle of life to a happy closure and one line from him to make so much sense of what is happening to all of us, and what really it is that can be ''not just the reason, but all our reasons'' of living. yes, ron howard's true life story of a human being's struggle is an achievement of a film; because art imitates life, it is an icon of a film, heart-breakingly intelligent, heart-breakingly beautiful, documenting one man's torment, because it is all our torments; substitute the cause of pain, and pain is pain. his was schizophrenia. and, even in the classic script which uses the mind as a metaphor for all ills, his greatest love and companion, sums it up for him by saying in the film's most poignant scene: ''everything is not necessarily in the mind, it is also in the heart.'' and in the next instant the movie takes it's chartered course to tell its main story that love heals anything. and what it can't heal, it comforts. it is compulsive viewing. it will tell you something you need to know to love the one you love. and it doesn't do it screaming. it takes the road of subtexts to prise out two people's love for each other. on his way to being recommitted to an institution, in a subtle scene the car engine that is turned on down doesn't take his love away from him in abandonment, she walks into the room, walking in for everyone of us who ever felt abandoned and doing what everybody is duty-bound as a human to do for another: commits to help and be there till the end. no matter what. ''all of what you believe is not real,'' she says to him. so too to us. what is real really is the love in our lives. placing her hand on his face she says, ''this is real.'' placing her hand in his hand, she says, ''this is real.'' placing her hand on his heart, she says, ''this is real.'' only love is real. ''i need to believe that extraordinary things are possible,'' she says and proceeds to see him heal himself. all we need to feed is the belief that life is bigger than anything and it is a gift designed by the world's most beautiful mind. and even a mathematician, even the most clinical mind and precise thinker, given to fact and the arithmetic of existence, came to the conclusion that crowned the film: his acceptance speech upon winning the nobel . looking ahead at the great friend, companion, soul-mate, wife of his life, a beaten but not broken man, said these words: ''in pursuit, all my years of solving the mystery of the greatest equations of life, i've come to realise, know, that the only logic is the logic of love.'' and to a tearful alicia, he says, what we all ought to say to that one person we all ought to be blessed to have: ''you are the reason. you are all my reasons.'' no matter how ugly people have made the world, in the quiet sanctuary of your beautiful mind if you have that one enchanted friend on earth, you are a heartbeat away from a beautiful life. one true love down here. one great love from up above. if god reads the heart felt, may he grant everybody this.
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