Nicholas's review of "A Beautiful Mind" is clear and unambiguous, and it is clear that he understood Hugo's intention in writing the script in the first place, and has made the most thorough interpretation. At the end of the review, Nicholas said.

"The biggest success of this film is Hugo's adaptation of the biography of John Nash, and he wants to tell not a real John Nash, but a real schizophrenia. This makes the whole movie exude warm humanistic care, and the touching that makes the soul tremble gently is carried out throughout.

Unlike the coldness of 'Death Row Walk' and the cruelty of Schindler's List, 'A Beautiful Mind' brings warmth.

The cooperation between Hugo and Charlize has made the film have a strong chemical reaction, the two most topical and influential actors today, since the announcement of the couple's relationship, the first collaborative work, not only shows the superb and profound acting skills of the two people, but also bursts out of amazing sparks, with incredible tacit understanding to let the consistent emotion show a moving look, almost every picture, every scene is like a work of art, amazing.

It's hard to say whether it's John and Alicia's love that makes this classic collaboration a success, or Hugo and Charlize's love that makes the movie wonderful. But there's no doubt that the duo's collaboration goes beyond 'before sunrise' and is reminiscent of 'when Harry met Sally'. ”

Even at the end of the film review, Nicholas did not forget to tease Hugo and Charlize, which really made people laugh and cry. However, the "Los Angeles Times" has no doubt about the praise of this work, and a perfect score of 100 points is enough to make people look sideways, which is really a super high appreciation.

This time, the "New Yorker" was the first to stand up and agree with the views of the Los Angeles Times, they also gave a perfect score of 100, and praised the work in the film reviews, especially for Hugo's adaptation.

"Once again, Hugo Lancaster has dedicated an amazing adaptation to show his brilliant screenwriting talent.

The structure of the whole movie is compact and complete, without any superfluous plot, let alone any superfluous details, almost every subtle part can be formed to echo successively, and the control of the overall rhythm can be called a master, from the game theory of the first quarter to quickly enter the theme, to the middle half of the emotional layer by layer, and then to the last quarter of the sublimation and precipitation, with meticulous and delicate, vivid and real strokes to tell such a true biography full of human care.

Hugo did not follow the real life of John Nash, but recreated the story, which is not an 'adaptation', but a 'creation', which is perhaps a point criticized by many people - it does not respect the truth, but it is precisely the biggest highlight of the whole movie. It can be seen from one detail: Hugo has carefully set up John's three hallucinatory characters, perfecting and supplementing the whole story and John Nash, which is a part that cannot be seen in real life, but it makes the whole movie closer to reality and more exciting!

The appearance of Charles is a character created by John to relieve his inner anxiety about failure, he appeared after John encountered a long period of bottlenecks, successive failures and deep despair, Charles's personality is almost diametrically opposed to John, but he constantly affirms John, encourages John, and acknowledges that John is a genius. This is undoubtedly the most important self-affirmation for John, who is lonely and helpless.

In fact, this can also be seen as John's unconscious self-treatment, in which all his emotions, both positive and negative, are vented through the outgoing and outgoing Charles. Therefore, Charles has always been John's best friend, even the only friend, and Charles has contributed a lot to John's success.

The second personality to appear is William, which is the personality condensed by John's desire to achieve fame, and it is also the definition of career, hero, and success in John's heart, or the life nurtured by John's negative emotions. So, William was savage, brutal, tyrannical, strong, greedy, calm, decisive, cunning...... It can almost be said that he accurately grasped all the thoughts in John's heart and firmly controlled John's every move.

William's appearance is the background of the times and social environment, in the turbulent historical conditions, John as a mathematician, has always been depressed, he published game theory, but there is no way to really become famous in the world, he longs to become a hero with the ability to change the direction of the war, so he became a secret spy to decipher the Soviet code.

The last personality to emerge is the little girl Marcy, who is actually a projection of John's inner self - first of all, a girl, who is not capable of resisting the violence and cruelty of the outside world, he is just a helpless mathematician, just like a girl; Secondly, Marcy has a miserable background, is lonely, helpless, and pitiful, and longs for the care and love of others. Detached from the name of a genius in the field of mathematics, John is such a simple and fragile child, always looking for a spiritual harbor, but has to wander from place to place.

Charles represents John's inferiority complex and self-confidence, William represents John's fear and strength, and Marcy represents John's vulnerability and loneliness...... These three fictional characters become so entangled with John's ego that John gradually loses his social self. The principles of reason and reality are gradually distancing themselves from the schizophrenic John, and the spur of these three characters makes John almost crazy into the study of semiotics, and John's achievements are closely related to these three characters, but behind these achievements, John gradually loses himself, and finally explodes.

In the process of watching the movie, the audience can't tell which real characters are, and the blinded eyes make the hallucinations completely out of control, as if every audience member has also entered John's world, gradually lost in the ambiguous area between fantasy and reality.

The three imaginary characters allude to John's confusion and helplessness, which makes Alicia's existence crucial - which in turn leads to the film's core theme: true trust is what makes mental illness less scary, and the bridge built by love is the key to getting out of it.

It was Alicia who guided John out of the predicament step by step, she made Nash realize that in the midst of nothingness and illusion, at least their love was real, their heartbeat was real, and this real emotion was like a spark that brought reason back into Nash's consciousness, trust and love built a bridge between John's unconscious and reason, and finally became an opportunity for John's recovery. The warmth that Alicia brought to John allowed him to overcome himself and complete a breakthrough.

This echoes the three fictional characters and completes the story - even Hugo uses a small amount of ink to create an incredible effect on friendship. The story begins with John and their encounter, and ends with John and Martin's acquaintance, which further ferments the brewing of emotions and finally explains the core idea of the whole film: trust and care, which is the only key and the best medicine.

In many films, mental illness is always pushed into a corner, linked to perversion, madness, and loss of control, but in 'A Beautiful Mind', it is only a disease, the simplest disease, a disease that can drain life. Perhaps, this is the beautiful mind of Hugo Lancaster.

As a screenwriter, Hugo is using his brushstrokes to change the world. And this time, he did. ”

The New Yorker's review takes a very different view, with a lengthy analysis of the film's script, and is clearly full of praise for Hugo's work.

The New York Times and the Washington Post both agreed with The New Yorker's point of view, with the former even arguing that Hugo gave the entire script an amazing spark and energy, even if it was seen as an original screenplay. And this work is very hopeful to bring Hugo his second screenwriter statuette. This is undoubtedly one of the greatest affirmations for Hugo.

Following the "Sixth Sense of the Supernatural", the "Beautiful Mind", which debuted at the end of the year, occupied the hearts of film critics almost without any suspense. This is a result that everyone expected, an unwilling result.

is different from "Truman's World" and "The Sixth Sense of the Supernatural", "Beautiful Mind" can be said to be the work that is most in line with the aesthetic views of the academic school, not to mention, Hugo has returned to the plot theme he is most familiar with, and it has become a quality guarantee, which makes the movie favored by countless critics before its release, thinking that Hugo will dedicate another masterpiece.

As for the height that this masterpiece can reach, and whether it can regain the glory of "Walking on Death Row" or even "Schindler's List", it still depends on the quality of the finished product.

However, due to the rise of the wave of "opposition to Hugo", people have begun to reject and continue to praise Hugo's merits, and even dislike it, and this deep malice can be felt when "The Sixth Sense" is released, which also makes many people think that the wave of praise for "Beautiful Mind" will be a little more restrained. Even with the praise, people will have a little bit of a reservation and may even ignore the excellence of the work.

But the result was unexpected, the quality of the finished product of "A Beautiful Mind" was almost impossible for critics to refuse, even if they "hated" Hugo, they could not open their eyes and tell nonsense, and say that the good was bad - not to mention, they had long been accustomed to Hugo's success, and could only sigh with a wry smile: the obnoxious guy did it again, and once again convinced everyone with absolutely excellent quality.

Therefore, after the eleven theatrical movies of "A Beautiful Mind", the first batch of reviews actually ushered in a frenzy of praise again!