A Beautiful Mind A Beautiful Mind is the story of John Nash (Russell Crowe), a talented mathematician, stricken with a mental illness while at the height of his career. He is diagnosed with Schizophrenia, a disease of the mind. Schizophrenia is one of the most disabling and emotionally devastating illnesses known to man. Even though there is no cure for schizophrenia it is a very treatable disease. Most of those afflicted by schizophrenia respond to drug therapy, and many are able to lead productive and fulfilling lives. This movie is about a man’s struggle to become sane again and continue with his life.
The movie starts out when John Nash is a freshman at Princeton. He sets out to come up with an original idea of how he would be able to set himself apart from the rest of the class? He comes up with the idea, eventually graduates and is presented with a job at Wheeler, on the campus of MIT. He teaches and does small jobs for the government. He’s called in to break a Russian code and he is swept away into the world of international conspiracy and is presented with a top-secret mission to find codes in various magazines like Life, Time, etc.
– and report back to his handler, William Parc her (Ed Harris).
Everything seems to be going fine in John’s life but one day everything falls apart. His cover is blown, John believes the Russians have discovered his work and have taken him to a secret mental institution. After being taken to the mental institution, he realizes he has a problem after he goes through shock therapy for months. Throughout the whole movie John’s mind makes people up and he thinks they are real people but they are actually figments of his imagination. They cause him to have more problems and he is forced to block them out so he can live out the rest of his life in peace.
After he does this at age 66 he is awarded the Noble Prize for his contributions to the theory of revolutionized economics. He stayed a teacher for quite some time and then retired. This shows to show that even though you have a problem that doesn’t mean that the problem will hold you down from what you want. A Beautiful Mind Movie Review The movie reviews I read were from a site called CrankyCritic. com and one from movie-reviews. net.
I was personally impressed with the acting and the whole plot of the movie. The movie was confusing yet it explained the whole plot by the end of the film. I read two reviews regarding this movie. The First review was from the crankycritic.
com website by were cranky. The writer of this review seemed to challenge the movie with comments like “can smooth over the occasional bumps in the script” and “we found ourselves at a loss on several occasions.” He seemed like he wanted to know exactly what was going on at each moment in the movie yet the movie was a different type of movie, which is supposed to make you confused. The Second review was by James Berardinelli at movie-reviews. net.
This review was a review, which gave words like “beautifully written” and “effectively acted” to show the quality and appreciation of the movie. James seemed to feel the movie a little bit more with descriptions like “this is the kind of expression of emotion that touches a deeper chord.” He comments on the talented actors and the exceptional writing, which was applied to this film. After reading both the review I will have to side with James Berardinelli. I appreciated this movie and left the theatre with a smile. James feels the same way as myself in his descriptions and comments.
I’m usually the type of person to enjoy a good action film or perhaps a good fantasy, but in this film it gave me all the pieces I wanted in a good film and more.