Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Proof
Catherine is not crazy in the film Proof. She believes she is becoming crazy but it is only a fixation of her imagination and depression. Catherine becomes so used to being around her father who is mentally unstable which causes her to believe she is like him. In some ways Catherine and her Father are alike, they are both incredibly smart, and enjoy math. Hal and Catherine are also alike in their enjoyment with math.
Hal meets Catherine through her father and continues to stick around after his death. He sticks around to uncover Roberts lost work, but Hal also builds a relationship with Catherine. Hal is not only in the relationship to find fame in Roberts work but also because he truly cares about Catherine, he knows Catherine is not crazy. Robert does not know Catherines mathematic capabilities.
When Hal discovers "Catherines proof" he and Claire have trouble believing her. Hal may know a lot about her personality, but not a lot about her mathematic capabilities. Catherine is underestimated by many people including Hal and Claire. Catherine may not have enheritied craziness from her father, but being a math genius runs in her family. She has spent countless hours working with her father and learning through math books which Hal and Claire do not realize.
Claire cares a lot about her sister Catherine but the two sisters are not a like. Claire does not understand Catherine or Robert because her personality is not anywhere near the same. It is hard for Claire to grasp her sisters life and personality so Claire attempts to mend what problems she believes exist. Claire has a controlling personality but her ententions to care for her sister are good. She may come off as unpleasant, but she has a different personality type than her family.
Catherines erratic behavior originates from her fathers behavior which she is used to and also depression. Catherine becomes consumed in the idea she is crazy which causes erratic behavior. Her unstable behavior also comes from the fact that she is not happy with her life, she worries about her future.
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I agree that Catherine is not crazy. I also agree that Claire and Hal both don't realize Catherine's mathematic capabilities. I think Claire does care about Catherine and wanted to just help her but having Catherine go to New York to get professional help with her problems I think was going too far and definitely not what Catherine wanted or needed.
ReplyDeleteI like the insight that since Claire does not understand Catherine she tries to fix the things she can grasp. Claire is a doer. She's a busybody but not a monster.
ReplyDeleteIn this post, you really need to watch your apostrophes and commas.
Here's an example:
"Hal is not only in the relationship to find fame in Roberts work but also because he truly cares about Catherine, he knows Catherine is not crazy."
should be
"Hal is not only in the relationship to find fame in Robert's work but also because he truly cares about Catherine; he knows Catherine is not crazy."
The apostrophe shows possession, and the comma was not strong enough to hold the two sentences together. Sometime you have the comma correctly in a compound sentence, but sometimes you don't.
"She believes she is becoming crazy but it is only a fixation of her imagination and depression."
should be
"She believes she is becoming crazy, but it is only a fixation of her imagination and depression."