Beautiful Mind
A Beautiful Mind is a human drama about the struggle of a true genius and was inspired by events of the life of John Nash Jr. The movie A Beautiful Mind, nominated for eight Academy Awards, has brought attention to the fact that people can and do recover from schizophrenia, a severely disabling disorder that affects about one in 100 Americans. ... On many occasions, Nashs mind and how he visualized numbers and formulas in relation to the world were revealed. ... His decline is dealt with so subtly in the script that he never seemed actually "crazy," but he just seemed so consumed by that beautiful mind of his that he could not carry on a friendly conversation. ... A Beautiful Mind is an outstanding educational device to make people aware of a disorder that affects more than two million adults. ... (Waddington) A Beautiful Mind portrays Nash’s recovery from schizophrenia as hard-won, awe-inspiring and unusual. ... This movie does an excellent job of opening the eyes of the common person and opening a window into the mind of someone who suffers from a mental illness.