Sitting down with my husband to watch A Beautiful Mind movie. My psychiatrist recommended my family see it so they better understand my experience.
What do you think of it? Can you relate?
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The first time I watched it I didn’t think I was sick yet and I didn’t hallucinate yet. I was mostly just delusional and paranoid.
I didn’t get much out of it. I told my doctor I definitely didn’t have that. He recommended I watch it.
But now I think it’s a pretty realistic depiction with the exception of my not being a genius. The only exception was I thought the government was after me not that I was working for them. My hallucinations were as vivid as his were but they aren’t like my friends.
My wife and I rewatched it a few weeks ago and I think it’s a really good movie. I think it will give your family a good understanding of what’s wrong with you.
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I liked the fact that it showed how it’s an up and down process to live with this disease. The support of his family and co-workers is the message that really hit home for me.
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I know the story but haven’t watched the movie in recent memory. Probably worth a watch.
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You could always check out, “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.”
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Kesey wrote that novel whilst tripping on acid. It was legal then and he got onto a program that gave him acid. If your interested read “The Electric Cool Aid Acid Test:” by Tom Wolfe ( spelling ). Kesey worked in a mental institution whilst doing the drugs. It’s a crazy story and people ended up in such institutions.
Even Kesey in the end amounted to little. He was a hedonist who didn’t really have any interest in anything but his own stuff it seems.
Fun and games in California in the 60’s!
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@FlyingPurplePeopleMeeter . I liked it. It wasn’t a real experience it was a generalization about what we deal with.
It was basically a representation of madness and it wasn’t so bad. Paranoia is so much more subtle than that from my experience but give them some credit. It’s hard to represent madness.
If you want a gritty, reality based version watch “Angel Baby”. It’s an Australian story but so much more gritty!
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John Nash is a hero
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My dad had that book and in high school I tried reading it but I never finished it.
In the movie, some of those men inside the hospital were real mentally ill patients. But some were actors and those actors actually became famous later.
One of the patients was a young Danny DeVito who later hit it big in an American sitcom called “Taxi” and went on to have a successful acting career. Another patient was Christopher Lloyd who coincidentally also was on “Taxi” and went on to play the “mad” professor in the huge 1980’s movie “Back to the Future” along side Michael J. Fox.
A third patient inside the hospital in the movie was an actor who’s wife played the secretary “Beasley” in the hit show “Moonlighting” which co-starred starred Bruce Willis and launched his career.
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So cool for the information @77nick77 ! I know most of those folks and seen the movie long ago and wouldn’t put them down for it! I’d have to see the movie again but I think it was the classic 3. Best picture, best director and best actor???
I think it was even produced by Michael Douglas…but that is memory. Will have to wikipedia it but just about to cook dinner!
Yeah…Interesting. Old man douglas got the rights and Michael produced it so early.
Read that novel! It really is so interesting as it’s about the crazy shenanigans of the author Kesey! It’s worth a look. Never did hospital even when so psychotic. My lovely deceased mother wouldn’t let me go and kept me at home with a house full of people.
I slept on a camp bed in the lounge room! Gotta love her for that!
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loved that movie!
just finish watching “first do no harm”
kinda funny i always asked fate to give me a pony jokingly because i knew that couldn’t happen. (for i am a brony) but i asked as a teen just messing around with fate.
this is what i get.
https://www.nami.org/Learn-More/Treatment/Complementary-Health-Approaches
i think her name was Evelyn Sacks and she had a book about her life but i cant find it. even after buying it.
I believe my kids and I saw it in the theater
when it came out
it was about the same time we saw Mr. Opus
about being deaf
I thought the movie was very well done
and I could relate well to all of it
but I enjoyed The Soloist much more.
Interesting movie. John Nash is brilliant! It wasn’t as accurate as I expected to his real story, so that was bothersome. His symptoms lessened later in his life. He spent 11 years in hospitals and then didn’t teach again for another 15 after that. I hope it doesn’t take me 25 years to work again. I do like the thought of symptoms lessening!
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Brilliant but a narcissist.
I’ve never heard that about John Nash. How is he a narcissist? What does he say or do?
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He abandoned his first born son and treated the mother like crap. To me, that tarnishes the whole thing. The word narcissist was mentioned in the book.
Wow. I thought he was simply too sick to be around his son.
That was really sad when the baby was in the bath n John was sick. N the music makes it really emotional.
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