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Advantages: Absolutely everything
Disadvantages: Quite sad, can make you question your reality

A Beautiful Mind is film that can be described, simply, as beautiful. A beautiful Mind is based on the novel by Sylvia Nasar of the same title. Both mediums tell us about the life (mainly college onwards) of the great mathematician, John Nash. We are firs introduced to Nash on his first day of Princeton University. From this moment on, the audience sees the majority of the film through John’s eyes. He isn’t the most social character but gosh, he ...
...human initially manage to form a rapport with is his roommate Charles, who is the opposite of John; loud, humorous, outgoing. Following the outline of a plan to impress some ladies, John established a concept that would later be known as his Equilibrium theory. As a result of this outline, John is given the opportunity to work for Wheeler labs as a code breaker. Due to John’s talent, he is approached by a more secretive individual to find codes hidden ... Read review

Advantages: Interesting look at schizophrenia
Disadvantages: Dull at times

John Nash is a brilliant mathematician, but has great difficulty in building relationships with other people. Luckily his room-mate at University befriends him and ensures that John's University life is happy outside of studying. On graduation, John lands an excellent job as a code-breaker, and manages to snare a beautiful young wife called Alicia, a former student. Then his life comes crashing down around him one day when he is committed to a mental ...
...with his brilliant career as a mathematician? And will Alicia stay with him? Russell Crowe plays John Nash. Not knowing the real man - the film is based on the real story of John Nash, who is still alive - I have no idea how close to type Crowe's performance is. I have read criticism of the film by some, claiming that huge parts of Nash's life, including some homosexual experiences and affairs. However, within the confines of his role in this film, ... Read review

Advantages: Great plot twists - always keeps you guessing, wonderful cast
Disadvantages: I can't think of any!

...What starts off as a story about John Nash (Russell Crowe), a mathematician caught up in a world of codes and spies decends into a psychological drama about a man dealing with schitzophrenia. I don't want to spoil the plot too much but there are some great twists which kept me wondering what was going on even though I thought I'd already figured it out. Effects I thought the little details in the film, like Nash being distracted when talking to ...
...round. Deleted scenes as a whole ruin the original cut of the film for me. My Opinion There are some very moving scenes, and it displays the pain a disease like scitzophrenia can cause a family and individual. I love this movie and to top it off, the soundtrack is beautiful! If you like this film you might also like the film Proof. ... Read review

Advantages: Great Story and Deeply informative
Disadvantages: Minor inaccuracies to John Nash's life and work

...thought provoking and also gives a great deal of insight into the mental disorder of schizophrenia and how powerful the mind really is. Plot This story is based on the true story of John Nash, a mathematician who begins hallucinating and imagining people including a friend and roommate from university, called Charles, Charles' niece Marcee, and a Department of Defence agent called William Parcher. After some time, his wife Alicia informs ...
...real. He is then offered a nobel prize for economics for his extraordinary work into game theory. Cast The acting in this film is outstading with Russel Crowe (who plays John Nash) putting a lot of effort into the part of this mathematical genius and the viewer really begins to get attached to this character and starts to feel sorry for him. Jennifer Connelly (who plays Nash's wife Alicia) done some wonderful acting in this film. The viewer ... Read review

Advantages: True insight into the life of a genius
Disadvantages: None I know of...

...this is that this is a true story - so well known in many circles anyway - & also it is impossible to really discuss the depth of this film without knowing what happens in it. I have to admit I had not heard anything about this film when I first saw it & so had no idea what to expect. I was amazed with what I saw & would certainly agree that part of my experience of this film was so good because I did not know the story. The trouble is, no matter ...
...find a way to talk about this film without giving away what happens. I hope all readers will understand… I also hope you won't think me going 'off-topic' too much as I want to talk about personal experiences in this review - but I do feel it relates well to the film & may be something others can relate to. To me, to be able to relate to a film on this level & be so keen on talking about it, it must mean this film is something very special. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ... Read review