Proof and some other comments

Last night, or rather early this morning, I saw the movie Proof with Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins and Jake Gyllenhaal. Now, I wasn't going to purchase this movie, but a friend of mine highly suggested it, since it was a good movie, and Jake Gyllenhaal was in it. I found out that it was also about math too.

I thought this film was similar to all other films on mathematicians. They are bizarre, they go crazy or schizophrenic from all the math that they do, they tend to be anti-social, and their lives revolve around solving problems... Jake's character gave a glimpse of hope however, since even though he is doing a Ph.D in mathematics, he also jogs, coaches hockey twice a week, and plays in a rock band. I thought Jake was kind of sexy in his role as a Ph.D math student. The intellectual look suits him, and I'm not a big fan of Jake Gyllenhaal. (Like his poster on Jarhead... Shudder)

Proof is a difficult movie to watch, since there are flashbacks at the same time as when the movie is progressing. I realize that it comes from a stage production, but it is challenging to follow this particular adaptation. And Gwyneth Paltrow wasn't acting very well, at least I didn't like her too much. But oh well...

And now, some other comments. I was chatting with Roman this morning, and I had mentioned that I once had blond hair... Since he mentioned to me that a friend of his and mine had dyed his hair, and will be showing up to Lambda with his blond hair. This friend is also Chinese. So, that reminded me to send him a picture of me when I had blond hair, and after he saw the picture, he asked me if I would dye my hair blond again... And when I asked him why, he said, "Oh, just to see."

OK, I'm not a Barbie doll. If you were dating me, I may consider changing my hair colour. Since you're not dating me, you can ask Olivier to change his hair colour. He's a brownie... He can go blond... But he wouldn't look good though, I don't really know. Or is Olivier turning out to not be the dream in paradise?