{"id":8784,"date":"2006-11-11T03:57:31","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T08:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=8784"},"modified":"2006-11-11T03:57:31","modified_gmt":"2006-11-11T08:57:31","slug":"proof-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/11\/proof-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Proof (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"proof03\"<\/a>In \u201cProof,\u201d Catherine is a woman who doubts her own sanity, after her dad dies. And when her sister Claire arrives from out of town, her tension and doubts become much too apparent. Claire doubts her sister\u2019s sanity, and after the first twenty minutes you will, too. Madden\u2019s film is based on the play of the same name, and judging by the way the entire film is conducted, it\u2019s not hard to fathom. \u201cProof\u201d conducts itself like a play. There are simple and scarce set pieces, all of which are there to serve the actors who stand around trading dialogue at rapid fire paces, screaming at the top of their lungs. They think it\u2019s dramatic, but often times it\u2019s utterly shrill.<\/p>\n

I was wondering often, if this was a film about a young woman learning to move on from her father, or a young woman grasping with the possibility of becoming mad like her father, because Madden can never really decide which angle to play, thus it feels scatter brained, and haphazard. \u201cProof\u201d sadly ends up as \u201cA Beautiful Mind\u201d-lite including the delusions, and I could never relate to Paltrow\u2019s character as much as I\u2019d hoped, because we never delve well enough into her tortured mind and her inner-conflicts, we delve much too often into the whiny introvert that I found difficulty sympathizing and rooting for in the end. Meanwhile, there\u2019s always this running around the topic of mathematics and the specifics behind it, yet noticeably, there\u2019s no real delving into it.<\/p>\n

What we expect would be the center of this little melodrama really ends up being there just as window dressing painting it as more than a simple drama about a girl who is sure she\u2019s losing her mind. We\u2019re constantly given lingo that\u2019s simple enough to convince us they\u2019re mathematicians, but they never really get into specifics, even when referring to \u201cThe Proof,\u201d which really ends up as a giant McGuffin. Everyone wants \u201cThe Proof,\u201d but the writer can never explain what it actually is. The rest is pure loud and droning melodrama with a cast of actors who yell for the sake of yelling, to enrich the melodrama, and beam down on Paltrow who struggles with her sanity, and moans about how much she loved her father, played by Anthony Hopkins who is utterly under-used, and downplayed.<\/p>\n

One of the few highlights of \u201cProof\u201d is Hope Davis as the overbearing and often passive Claire who bickers incessantly with Catherine in an attempt to bring her back from her depression and lingering on their father. Davis and Paltrow\u2019s chemistry is palpable, and the moments worth remembering are the moments when Davis and Paltrow share the screen with one another. In spite of the lovely Hope Davis picking up the slack, providing interesting chemistry with Paltrow, “Proof” is basically a limp, and utterly pointless melodrama that’s never as intelligent as it thinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In \u201cProof,\u201d Catherine is a woman who doubts her own sanity, after her dad dies. And when her sister Claire arrives from out of town, her tension and doubts become much too apparent. Claire doubts her sister\u2019s sanity, and after the first twenty minutes you will, too. Madden\u2019s film is based on the play of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,302,752,874],"class_list":["post-8784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-adaptation","tag-drama","tag-p","tag-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}