The trilogy of ‘The Lord of the rings’ of Peter Jackson It was an indisputable success both with critics and with the public, but at the Oscars it was necessary to wait until the premiere of ‘The Return of the King’ to win the prized statuette for best film of the year. Both ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ and ‘The Two Towers’ were nominated but were defeated, the case of the first being especially painful, since the award went to ‘A Beautiful Mind’, a title that you can now recover free streaming for a limited time.
In order to see this award-winning film you will have to enter RTVE Play, where it will be available completely free of charge until this Sunday April 30. After that date, the only alternatives you will have will be paid, as it has been part of the Movistar+ and SkyShowtime catalog for some time.
Solvent but dull
About the film itself, I don’t think ‘A Beautiful Mind’ is bad either, since it comes to be a mix of functional biopic elevated by the very good interpretation of Russell Crowe -although both ‘The Dilemma’ and ‘Gladiator’, his other two works for which he aspired for an Oscar -taking it for the second one-, are superior- which then takes advantage of the peculiar mental state of its protagonist to play a Little to the confusion about what is true and what is not, thus introducing a touch of thriller that makes it a more distinctive work than it might seem at first glance.
However, Ron Howard He has never struck me as a particularly brilliant director, nor Akiva Goldsman a very reliable scriptwriter, which means that ‘A wonderful mind’ stands out more for its performances -there it is also worth highlighting a very inspired jennifer connelly– than for anything else. Of course, it is fair to recognize that the scene in which the protagonist uses his knowledge applied to dating tactics is memorable, but it is still an exception.
obviously i have quite clear that ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ seems to me a much rounder and more revisable film than ‘A Beautiful Mind’, but it never hurts to take another look at the latter to (re) check it. Of course, much more unfair was that Howard won the Oscar for best director, especially with the rivals he had.
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