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The DVD, A Beautiful Mind is an Excellent Stocking Stuffer

Though it has been around for a few years, “A Beautiful Mind” is still a great DVD movie to add to someone’s Christmas stocking. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards and was the winner of four Oscars including, Best Picture. More than anything, it is a story about the power of love.

This biographical film debuted in 2001 about John Forbes Nash, the Nobel Laureate (Economics) mathematician. John Nash (portrayed by Russell Crowe) was a man who heard hundreds of voices, demonstrating how fragile genius really is. Like all films, it’s important to realize that there is some dramatic embellishment and the movie should not be taken as pure fact about John Nash’s life.

The Fragile Genius of John Nash; Cruel Schizophrenia Treatments

Born in 1928, Nash’s genius became evident when he was just 12 years old, when he would work by himself on experiments. He obtained his doctorate from Princeton University in 1950 with a dissertation on non-cooperative games. Just eight years later, Nash began to show signs of schizophrenia. As portrayed in the film, Nash became obsessed with cracking codes in the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He became paranoid and was hospitalized in 1959. He remained in and out of mental hospitals until 1970, being given insulin shock therapy and antipsychotic medications, usually as a result of being committed rather than by his choice. (Insulin shock therapy was later considered to be cruel and ineffective, causing seizures and in some cases, comas.) After 1970, Nash chose to never take antipsychotic medication again. Throughout the ensuing years, Nash was awarded the John Von Neumann Theory Prize for his invention of “non-cooperative equilibria” (1978) and in the 1990s won the Leroy P Steele Prize and the Nobel Prize in Economics (along with two others).

Not only is it a biography, but the well-acted movie, A Beautiful Mind, is an extraordinary look at mental illness and our past methods of dealing with it. It’s a film that shows a man’s desire to overcome obstacles and a story about the power of love. For the movie lover, A Beautiful Mind is an outstanding addition to any film collection and worthy of watching several times.

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