Proof (2005)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.9/10   

Director:

John Madden

Escritores (WGA):

David Auburn (play)
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Fecha de Lanzamiento:

30 septiembre 2005 (USA)

Género:

Drama

Frase comercial:

Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play by David Auburn

Plot:

The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician, recently deceased, tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students who wants to search through his papers and her estranged sister who shows up to help settle his affairs.

Plot Keywords:

Mathematician | Notebook | Mathematics | University | Nonlinear Timeline

Premios:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Madden + Paltrow = Something Good. Proof? Proof.

Reparto

Gwyneth Paltrow	...	Catherine
Anthony Hopkins	...	Robert
Jake Gyllenhaal	...	Hal
Danny McCarthy	...	Cop
Hope Davis	...	Claire
Tobiasz Daszkiewicz	...	Limo Driver (as Tobiacz Daszkiewicz)
Gary Houston	...	Professor Barrow
Anne Wittman	...	Friend at Party
Leigh Zimmerman	...	Friend at Party
Colin Stinton	...	Theoretical Physicist
Leland Burnett	...	Band Vocalist
John Keefe	...	University Friend
Chipo Chung	...	University Friend
C. Gerod Harris	...	University Friend (as C Gerod Harris)
Roshan Seth	...	Professor Bhandari

También conocida como:

{proof} (International: English title) (poster title)
La prueba (Argentina) [es]
La verdad oculta (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some sexual content, language and drug references.

Duración:

100 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Clasificación:

UK:12A | Ireland:15A | Netherlands:AL | Hong Kong:IIA | Singapore:NC-16 | Finland:K-11 | Czech Republic:12 | Sweden:Btl | Argentina:13 | Hungary:16 | Malaysia:(Banned) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Germany:6 | South Korea:12 | USA:PG-13 | Australia:M

Locaciones de Filmación:

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Compañía:

Miramax Films

Trivialidades:

All the dialogue is written in iambic pentameter.

Errores:

Sin sincronía de Audio o Visual: Near the end when Catherine says she'd rather go to sleep than talk through her father's proof, his mouth keeps moving after he stops yelling.

Citas:

Robert: What about Claire?
Catherine: She's not my friend. She's my sister.

Conexiones de Película:

Apariciones Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Banda de Sonido:

Uganda

Madden + Paltrow = Something Good. Proof? Proof.

This film is about death, love, and mental incapacity. There are bound to be endless clichés, comparisons, and parallels drawn with Ron Howard's "A Beautiful Mind", so I won't go there.

In the end, this film is all about Gwyneth Paltrow.

She is on screen at least 80% of this film. Her character dances between mourning, anger, remorse, confusion, fear, vulnerability, sadness, and just a little bit of love. There are very dramatic changes in emotion from moment to moment, and Paltrow pulls it off brilliantly.

Sir Anthony Hopkins role, while relatively small, is crucial to the film. His performance was good, but not great. But it didn't really matter, as Proof is all about Paltrow. Hope Davis and Jake Gyllenhaal also gave solid performances, but their as with Hopkin's role were really nothing more than support Paltrow.

The biggest disappointment for me was the almost total lack of any 'real' mathematics. For a film that revolves around brilliant mathematical proofs, there's an almost painful scarcity of and real math in the film. There are shots of seemingly random equations scrawled across paper or a blackboard, and the odd conversation making reference to some known mathematical law or theorem, but I would have liked more.

IF you want a happy film, go see something else. If you want a mindless film, go see something else. If you want a typical love story, go see something else. If you want an intelligent well written and presented story of substance involving a a character experiencing a roller-coaster of emotions, Proof may be for you.