Movie Review: A Beautiful Mind

 "A Beautiful Mind" 

John Forbes Nash was a brilliant mathematician. In 1959 he started to hear voices in his head. He with a beautiful mind was committed to psychiatric hospital. At 30 years of age, John Nash had schizophrenia - a condition from which most afflicted people never recover. He was forced to resign his position from M.I.T;

 John appeared to be a shell of his former self. His former colleagues could no longer communicate with him. Sometimes barefooted he wandered through the corridors of Princeton University's Fine Hall where he had once been a formidable mathematician genius.

Alicia Nash, his wife, divorced him in 1963.Despite their divorce, Alicia took care of him though his years of mental delusion and turmoil. It's a story of love, support and triumph.

When he was 21, Nash wrote a doctoral thesis that eventually made him a Nobel Laureate. In 1994, at the age of 66, he shared the Nobel for work he did as a graduate student. Accepting a full-ride fellowship to Princeton University, John Nash was surrounded by some of the finest and brightest people working in mathematics and science at the time. Undisturbed by the brilliancy of people like Albert Einstein, the budding mastermind followed his own path.That Nobel Prize came decades after most people had either written off John Nash or thought he was dead.

The Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash Jr. still teaches at Princeton, and walks to campus every day. At the end these statements nearly brought tears to my eyes. "A Beautiful Mind," is the story of a man who is one of the greatest mathematicians, and a victim of schizophrenia.

This is actually one of the best films I have ever seen. Russell Crowe is an amazing actor. With an unexpected twist, this movie blew my mind. The great acting and  beautiful scenes are fantastic. A great message... that you need to have a passion, an obsession for things to go on, but they can be guided, nurtured only if one is loved and cared. I am deeply touched by the story. This movie rocked me till the end and brought tears when I heard this beautiful song "All Love can be"...

will watch you in the darkness
Show you love will see you through
When the bad dreams wake you crying
I'll show you all love can do
All love can do

I will watch by the night
Hold you in my arms
Give you dreams where no one will be
I will watch through the dark
Till the morning comes

For the lights will take you
Through the night to see
All love, showing us all love can be

I will guard you with my bright wings
Stay till your heart learns to see
All love can be

Last Saturday I saw this movie and no doubt, I will watch it again...

( "A Beautiful Mind" is an unauthorized biographyof John Forbes Nash by Sylvia Nasar, a New York Times economics correspondent. It inspired the 2001 film with the same name)