What does everyone think about this movie?
I have it on VHS, Its a good movie but does not represent the majority of sz people
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I think that probably Nash had no serious cognitive symptoms, otherwise he wouldn’t succeed that
spectacularly in mathematics.
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I never watched it… my attention span sucks… @Mountainman can you send me a vhs copy? and a vhs player… do kids even know what vhs is now a days?
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Supposedly he eventually used logic to get past his delusions
OMG if I do that I would be down to only 1199 movies and 4 VHS players, what would I do with my time??? 
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Great movie but doesn’t portray the illness well.
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One of my favorites
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My story is somewhat similar to his probably a bit more dramatic though. I think it’s a good representation.
I liked the way he redeemed himself and succeeded in the end.
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I found the VHS tape in my locked room one time, kicked it around until I looked up what it was about, then I tore it to shreds. For the life of me can’t understand all the unspoken stupid games folks played with me for their entertainment value.
Never watched it, never will.
The film is an adaptation of the book A Beautiful Mind (Sylvia Nasar, 1998).
The book is more realistic than the film.
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First I cried; then I laughed; then I cried again.
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It’s possible. I’ve done it before even for deep seated ones. Just is verrrrrryyyyy difficult. Helps if someone else is there to tell you that it is a delusion. You still have to do the heavy lifting though.
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Funny how I saw this movies years before I was diagnosed.
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I liked it. I don’t have visual hallucinations but I do have a delusional alternate reality so I could sort-of relate. I have seen some YouTube videos of John Nash and his son since that movie. Very interesting. His son has SZ too.
I found the delusions unbelievable and some critics back me up. It wasn’t
believable to me that anyone could have such detailed delusions and on such a grand scale. The movie is given the Hollywood treatment and embellished and dramatized.
But I enjoyed the movie.
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It wasn’t logic that saved Nash, it was love.
Alicia Nash, John’s wife, never gave up on him. When John was going to be homeless, it was Alicia who took him in. I feel strongly that John would have descended further into madness if not for Alicia’s love.
They spent much of their lives together, and died together in a car accident a few years ago.
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I thought it was done very well…I had grandiose beliefs too and the first time you watch it you don’t know he’s delusional until he gets apprehended. good movie in my opinion.
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I had numbers flying through the air hallucinations, too…during trig class. Sometimes the answers were correct, other times they were totally wrong. I empathized with that scene where he believes he’s in a room of gov agents and he’s seeing the code unscramble itself.
Some parts were a little unbelievable, like did he confuse them for real people? I usually think that the voice/vision is a person across town or even across the globe projecting his image into my mind so that only I could see him. I was usually aware that the other people physically present by me could not see the visions. I never confused the hallucination for a physical body, though, it was always a projection. I bet the book might go better into that, I used to own it but I only read half way through, before his psychosis.
I liked the movie overall!