A Beautiful Mind - Movie Review & My Thoughts (PrO_RaZe Reviews)

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Day 6 (3 September 2020) of my daily movie marathon and today I picked A Beautiful Mind which was again in top recommendation by Prime. I read and found it is based on a real person who was a mathematician, didn't know anything about it so decided to start and I finished just some minutes ago. And damn I enjoyed it, it was a beautiful movie. But damn I didn't know this movie was old, I mean got to know in between. This movie was released in 2001 and I'm gonna be honest as always, I am not a fan of old movies or in watching them. I just like to watch modern movies or movies that aren't like decades old, because I just don't relate to it's overall storytelling ways and environment. It's also not like I hate old or classical movies, I don't in fact I appreciate them. I appreciate classic films and actors so much but I love seeing stills from these films, posters you know images, or reading a bit about them. Or watching short clips where I can feel those times in filming, the era it used to be and so on. It's classic after all and people who used to watch them in their time do connect a strong attachment to these movies. It's the nostalgia effect. 

Coming back to the movie, I usually avoid old movies but this is like one of those rare movies I watched completely and appreciated. John Nash was a boy who was mad talented, like very talented. He had a beautiful mind who loved to play with numbers and theorems and mathematics. In my school time I was extremely bad at Maths and always failed but I do acknowledge the importance of Maths in our life. It is just I wasn't good at it, but I know Maths is very valuable. John Nash was weird and anti-social with anxiety. He couldn't talk to people properly and thought they didn't like him and he didn't like them. I loved how he just represented everything in numbers and saw things with equations. His mind was all about maths. He studied at Princeton University and his goal was to find an original idea that would change the world in a way or two. He didn't believe in attending classes but rather his mind. He had a roommate Charles but it was all gonna get crazy soon.

 Because actually he was crazy. He made a few friends which at first made fun of him because how he was like but then started liking Nash. He was also pretty straightforward. John Nash had a disease named schizophrenia. What this disease does to you is that you start seeing and hearing things that aren't actually present around, and you start believing that they are real. Charles, his roommate never existed. It was in his head, and his niece and then a guy named Parcher. Nash started believing that Parcher took him to a top secret organization which had relations with the Russians and that Nash works for him as a spy cracking secret codes. It all looked so real as Nash is working secretly for them. But none of it was real, he became more crazy. He thought they would kill his family.

 This thing was really crazy amazing, it kind of reminded me of Mr Robot, Elliot's dad in the Mr Robot show. He was in Elliot's head guiding him for the revolution. I thought this movie will be similar to this. But Nash was taken to the mental hospital where it was revealed Nash was seeing this and doing things that aren't real. He would see codes in magazines and papers and he tries to solve them. Along the way he met his wife Alicia which was real lol, she helped Nash make his life better. She made him better over the years. He never got cured of schizophrenia, he always had it but he got used to it. Charles, the little girl and Parcher would always be around of Nash but he won over them. 

This movie was inspirational , his mind was unique and he did things for the world in maths. He won a Nobel prize too. He worked almost his entire life at the Princeton University. Taught so many students , became famous and lived with his disease. And it all happened in real life. I really wonder how it is like to really see or hear things that aren't even present around you. Like image having a person with you that does not exist. It's crazy but kind of unbelievable. There was a quote in the movie saying something like, what if the best moments or best people you have met in your life never existed? 

Alicia was so beautiful and such a loving partner. She never gave up on him. That's love. And in real life they both died in a car crash (2015). Sad. 2001 when this movie was released, it's like 19 years ago but still kind of old movie and I liked it. Time to rate it, I'll give it 8.5/10. The acting of the cast was absolutely brilliant, forgot to mention that. I'm seriously enjoying watching a new different movie everyday. I guess the more I'll see and experience, the better my own brain will get. 

Wisdom is valuable. I loved how John gathered codes or information from so many news articles and magazines and decipher them for a goal. I can relate this to a Kanye West interview I watched today where he says something like I have stacks and stacks of manga, fashion magazines, art magazines etc. And I am trying to gather all these information so I can create something amazing out of it. It is all the work of our mind. A Beautiful Mind.