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Title: Might Work as a Play; Not a Movie
Review: I understand that Proof is a Pulitzer-prize winning theatrical play (best drama). Well, the story might work well as a play; but falls flat as a movie. Amazingly bad acting from such a talented cast, limp plot, terrible dialogue, and no interesting visuals to speak of (hence, a bad subject for a film, which is a visual art form).I thought the film might appeal to my interest in intellectual films (okay, my interest in pretentious art films loved by psuedo-intellectuals such as myself). However, even in the pretentious intellectual art film category, it fails miserably. It's hard to put my finger on exactly why I disliked the film so much; it might be that the actors didn't seem to believe in the story - as if they knew they were asking the audience of too much, that this story in any way was believable. Because the actors were not invested in their own characters, I simply could not emotionally connect to any them, hence, the poor film experience.
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