Thursday, September 27, 2012
Proof
In the movie, Proof, Catherine and those closest to her are faced with the question on if she is crazy. Hal doesn't seem to believe she is but Claire believes she is and wants to put her in an institution back in New York. I think that she may be on her way to becoming like her father but for the time being, she is not crazy. One reason that leads me to believe that she is not crazy comes from the idea that she wrote this proof that if she was crazy I don't think that she would've been able to do it. For a time in the movie, we are led to believe that she is crazy but it's later revealed what really happened in the past. When she is throwing books around and screaming that she didn't write it, I thought for sure that she was crazy. However, it then shows what had happened the night that she finished writing the proof and it does show that she wrote it. This leads me to believe that she wasn't crazy, but she had convinced herself somehow that she didn't want credit for the proof and that she wanted to give that credit to her father. This is why I've concluded that Catherine is not crazy.
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Yes, I agree that the film provides far more evidence in the end that Catherine is sane. I like the fact that you reference the sane proof, but I think you can go a little bit further and provide evidence for what a crazy (Robert's) proof looks like.
ReplyDeleteOne small English punctuation issue that comes up frequently in this post is a missing comma in a compound sentence. When two sentences are joined together, a comma replaces the period in the first sentence:
"Hal doesn't seem to believe she is, but Claire believes she is and wants to put her in an institution back in New York."