Owlseyes 's Reviews > A Beautiful Mind

One cannot avoid the temptation of reading the book, after watching the movie; twice.

The movie is excellent in the way it describes schizophrenia (a form of); better than many textbooks. One can actually see the mind at work of a math genius called Nash and even empathize with his afflictions; his inner struggle.

From nearly the onset of the pathology, to its development, treatment and some recovery (by Nash's free will...and his wife's love), the movie tells a story through time: Nash while a student in college through his several jobs (even those imaginary!) till his final recognition as a Nobel-prize winner for his work in the mathematics and economics fields. Especially poignant are college and family scenes, for the awkwardness inherent to the pathology at stake: schizophrenia, its painful delusions and paranoia. Ron Howard did a great job/movie; Russell Crowe, a terrific acting part.

The music of the film, by James Horner, has been a fantastic feat; how numbers and equations and solutions... and equilibrium ....became delicate, touching musical notes, one wonders.

Well, if you're a mathematician, maybe you'll get curious about psychotherapy; if you're already a psychotherapist, math will tempt you in its beauty, as well.

I owe the second view of the movie to my friend* at GR who had made a review of the book.

Now, I can't let it go, listening to the movie soundtrack.

The sum of a man
in: https://www.theguardian.com/books/200...

“Mathematicians are comparatively sane as a group. It is the people who study logic that are not so sane.”
J. Nash

"Nash was totally spooky. He wouldn’t look at you. He’d take a lot of time answering a question. If he thought the question was foolish he wouldn’t answer at all. He had no affect. It was mixture of pride and something else. He was so isolated but there really was underneath it all a warmth and
appreciation of people”
A fellow student at Princeton


(The real Nash)

But then, was he really a lousy character?
in: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2...

*https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...