I needed a movie to watch on my train ride back to NYC today, so Brian's mom lent me A Beautiful Mind. I'm not sure how, in the past seven years, I've managed to not see this film (okay I guess it's not that unfathomable. Name five movies that I should have seen in the past seven years and I'll bet I've only seen one or two at the most...) but I was thoroughly enraptured the entire time.

I've never been a Russell Crowe fan but he really blew me away in completely owning his character... and I daresay my heart melted for him just a little bit.

Also, I've never been able to empathize with a character who did things out of love for someone else - but watching Jennifer Connelly really touched me. Not that I should compare a four-month relationship with the intensity of a marriage, but - I've never really felt anything close to those kinds of feelings for anyone until now. It is all so new, and enlightening, and thrilling, yet also sort of torturous since he lives like 250 miles away. Sigh.

Anyway, see the film if you haven't already. And in case I need to re-iterate, do not see Birth.