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Since I was so determined to see this movie because I really wanted to see it when it was released but I never got around doing it... I figured I would make it up.

First of all, amazing acting from Russel Crowe. I am impressed. He seems to have a very broad register of roles and he delivers. He plays a very complex and different character, but he does it quite convincingly. I do not know John Nash and I haven't read his biography of which this movie is based on; but if the person in the movie resembles the real John Nash, I think he would have liked to partake in our discussion about introvertion! (Originally wrote this in a forum where the question about introvertion was brought up)

Jokes aside, first of all, I should start with saying I didn't consider the movie bad, but there were some parts I really wanted more elaborated to give it a higher score in my eyes. One of those is that we never really understood much of his friends etc, and how his schizofrenia was discovered. I also wanted more background detail of his life, and in frustration I even went to Wikipedia.

Suffice to say, I felt I got to know John Nash very well but all the other characters were like sidedrags. I didn't really know their names and I didn't understand why they were there at all. Also while I realize the movie is primarily about John Nash the person, not John Nash the matematician, it focused more on his schizofrenia than his mathematical work. Now, I find schizofrenia a very interesting mental illness, and while it was one of the major driving forces to see this movie I also wanted to know more about his work! It is briefly mentioned he invented the Nash Equilibrium among other things, but we never get to know what it truly means. Once again, Wikipedia resolved the problem.

I think the movie did well as a biography though, and I even saw two copies of the Swedish king and queen! ...I think. They looked very similar regardless.

It was a touching movie, but it could have been a little deeper. I didn't even understand Charles was his "best friend" until Dr. Rose mentioned it. As previously mentioned as well, while not maybe plot holes, they were at least holes that could have been filled and fleshed out a little more. While I understand this could have caused the movie to run closer up to 3 hours, I don't see much of a problem if people can have Lord of the Rings and Star Wars marathons

If yo are out walking during the seventh lunar month, be careful because you might meet some hungry ghosts! Chinese people believe that the spirits of people who have died have a holiday during the hungry ghosts festival. In that month the spirits come back to earth to visit their living relatives.

Chinese people believe some ghosts are friendly but others are not. Perhaps the unfriendly ones don't have a family to visit or maybe they just want to cause trouble.

People give the friendly ghosts money and gifts, such as televisions and cars. These are all made of paper and are burned for the ghosts.

Families also cook food for the ghosts. To stop the ghosts from coming inside the house, people put food outside the house.

Parents ask their children not to stay out late during the Hungry Ghosts Festival because they might meet some unfriendly ghosts. The seventh month is also not a lucky month for marriage for the Chinese.

The tarsier is a small animal. It grows to about twelve centimeters long. It has a tail that can be twenty centimeters long. It weighs only around one hundred and twenty grams. It eats small lizards, fish and insects. It looks for food at night. During the day, it sleeps in a high tree, safe from enemies.

The tarsier looks very strange. It is gray in color and has big brown eyes which help it to see in the dark. Its eyes are bigger than its brain. Its feet are almost as long as the body. It can jump almost three meters from one tree to another. It also has long fingers, which look like human fingers.

It lives only in Indonesia and Philippines. People there call it "hantu", which means "ghost". What a strange animal.

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It's very useful stuff. You use it to put things together. You can use it to put two pieces of paper together, or to put wood or plastic together. If you want to use it with with wood or plastic, you need stronger stuff, but don't get it on your fingers.

It's the thing that wakes me up every morning. This thing makes a noise like Buzzz and then I reach over and turn it off. I don't like this thing.

Number 1. It's a kind of soft drink. You drink this stuff, usually in the morning. I usually have mine with milk and sugar.

Do you know how much time do you spend listening? It is estimated that half of our time is spent listening. Good listening is an essential part of active communication and makes us better managers, customers, coworkers, supervisors, parents and mates. Most of us aren't good listeners; however, listening is a skill that you can always improve.

1.Focus on the speaker and let them know you are listening by giving verbal cues such as, 'yes', ' I see' and non-verbal cues such as, nodding, leaning forward and smiling. Give the speaker your full attention

2.Make eye contact, look at the person you are speaking to or who is speaking to you. Looking in another direction or distracting glances appear as though you are not listening.

3.Avoid interrupting. It's rude and you cannot talk and listen at the same time. If you assume what people are going to say before they say it and then interrupt to respond to your assumptions, you will annoy the person you are talking with and you will miss the real message.

4.Ask questions and try to see the other person's point-of-view. Don't assume that you know what the person saying if things are not making sense for you. If you are unsure of the meaning ask for clarification and then if you are still not sure repeat it back to them.

5.Acknowledge the other person's feelings; make them feel like you understand and that it is okay to feel the way they do.

6.Be patient when you don't understand; getting upset won't solve any problems but will only create more.

7.Express your point-of-view and make a conscious choice about your response.

Plot

Raskolnikov, a mentally unstable drop-out student, chooses to live in a tiny, rented room in Saint Petersburg. He refuses all help, even from his friend Razumikhin, and devises a plan to murder and to rob an unpleasant elderly money-lender, Alyona Ivanovna. His motivation, whether personal or ideological, remains unclear. He soon sneaks into Alyona Ivanovna's apartment where he murders her with an axe; however, he is also forced to kill her half-sister, Lizaveta, who happens to enter the scene of the crime.

After the bungled murder, Raskolnikov falls into a feverish state. He behaves as though he wishes to betray himself, and the detective Porfiry begins to suspect him purely on psychological grounds. At the same time, a chaste relationship develops between Raskolnikov and Sonya—a prostitute full of Christian virtue, driven into the profession by the habits of her father—and Raskolnikov confesses his crime to her. The confession is overheard by Svidrigaïlov, a shadowy figure whose aim is to seduce Raskolnikov's sister, Dunya. Svidrigaïlov appears to have a hold over Raskolnikov, but after realizing that Dunya could never love him, he unexpectedly ends his own life. Raskolnikov eventually goes to the police himself to confess. He is sentenced to penal servitude in Siberia; Sonya follows him, and the Epilogue holds out hope for Raskolnikov's redemption and moral regeneration under her influence.

Once upon a time, there lived an old man who had a big lump on his cheek. Every time he chopped wood, his wen – which is what they call lumps like that – would jiggle up and down.
Chop, chop, Jiggle, jiggle. Chop, chop, Jiggle, jiggle.
It must have been quite a nuisance, but the old man was a happy-go-lucky fellow and didn’t seem to mind at all.
Now, it so happened that in the same village there lived another old man with a lump on his cheek. But this old man wasn’t so happy-go-lucky. In fact, he was always grumpy and irritable, and his wen seemed to bother him very much indeed.
Well, one day, as usual, the happy-go-lucky old man went into the mountain forest to chop wood. While he was chopping and jiggling and chopping, it began to sprinkle and then, suddenly, to rain very hard.
The old man found a big tree with a hollow trunk and dived inside it to take shelter. And before long he fell fast asleep.
Eventually the rain stopped, but even when evening fell and moon came out, the old man continued to snore.
Zzzzz...Phew! Zzzzz…Phew!
When he finally awoke it was after midnight and pitch dark. From somewhere nearby came the lively sound of music.
“Hmph? What’s that?”
Little did he know that the music was being made by demons who lived in the forest. You can imagine how stunned he was when he found them dancing in a circle and singing. He watched cautiously from behind a tree.
Twee, dada, boom-boom!
Twee, dada, boom-boom!
Red demons, blue demons, big demons, little demons, all of them laughing and dancing and singing and drinking. The atmosphere was so merry that before he knew it, the old man forgot his fear and began swaying his hips in time to the demon’s music. They seemed to be having such a wonderful time! Soon the old man, who had always loved to dance, was dancing along with them.
“Hey, La! Ooh, la! Hot-cha-cha!”
Oh my! The old man got so carried away that he forgot they were demons and danced right into the middle of the circle.

There's a place in your heart
And I know that it is love
And this place could be much
Brighter than tomorrow
And if you really try
You'll find there's no need to cry
In this place you'll feel
There's no hurt or sorrow

There are ways to get there
If you care enough for the living
Make a little space
Make a better place

Heal the world
Make it a better place
For you and for me
And the entire human race
There are people dying
If you care enough for the living
Make a better place
For you and for me

If you want to know why
There's a love that cannot lie
Love is strong
It only cares of joyful giving
If we try we shall see
In this bliss we cannot feel, fear or dread
We stop existing and start living

Then it feels that always
Love's enough for us growing
Make a better world
Make a better world

And the dream we were conceived in
Will reveal a joyful face
And the world we once believed in
Will shine again in grace
Then why do we keep strangling life
Wound this earth, crucify its soul
Though it's plain to see
This world is heavenly
Be God's glow

We could fly so high
Let our spirits never die
In my heart
I feel you are all my brothers
Create a world with no fear
Together we'll cry happy tears
See the nations
Turn their swords into plowshares

We could really get there
If you cared enough for the living
Make a little space
To make a better place