A Beautiful Mind
A Beautiful Mind is the "based on a true story" that recently won Best Picture at
the Academy Awards. It also won Best Supporting Actress for Jennifer Connelly.
The awards were deserved. It's a pity that Russell Crowe didn't win too, because
his performance as John Nash is much more interesting than his performance as Maximus in
Gladiator.
This movie has recently become controversial because it changed several points in
John Nash's life. I'm not an expert in his life and I don't know exactly what was
different. I think if they had tried to put more information in this story it would
have weakened the film.
John Nash is a rather strange young man when he shows up at Princeton. He doesn't
attend classes , he stays in the library and writes on the windows. His fellow classmates
tolerate him and try to include him, but he isn't good with people.
He becomes a professor and meets Alicia, the woman who becomes his wife. He starts
working for the government, much of his work highly top secret.
And then his world falls apart. He is diagnosed with severe mental illness and undergoes
treatment for that. His wife stays with him and helps him through the disease.
This is a great movie. It's not just a "disease of the week" film, but a harrowing
tale of a genius who cannot tell reality from imagination. It's not all weepy, parts of the film are quite funny. Who cares if they didn't show all of John Nash's life...what they did show was enough.
On the Stella Starstruck scale of 5 stars I give A Beautiful Mind ****1/2. See it.
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