Has anyone seen “A Beautiful Mind?”

Great film for schizophrenics. It’s about the life of John Nadh, a genius mathematician who develops schizophrenia. Tell me what you think of it!

Here are some clips

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Took me several tries to watch it as it kept putting me to sleep. It needed more vampire hookers.

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LOL!

Why didn’t you like it?

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loved it…first time I saw it I watched it with my sister and they were so blown away when the film exposed John as schizophrenic and it was all psychosis.

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It’s a pretty good movie. Kinda exacerbates the sz symptoms for the big screen though.

If you want to watch something very realistic but chilling af check out, Clean Shaven.

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No vampire hookers. No zombies. No giant reptiles stomping buildings. No massive pyrotechnics. No space battles. Not a single good throwaway line. Blech.

You want real cinema, watch TCM2.

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Do you like drama films?

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If they have zombies, vampire hookers and horrible dialogue, sure.

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LOL.

Minus politics, I have a feeling we would get along really well in real life.

:joy:

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That’s okay, you’ll eventually get used to being wrong.

:grin:

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Ha!

Love you regardless big dude!

:heart:

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I liked it but thought it was a nice try at showing psychosis but thought Fight Club was probably just as factual.

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Another great film about schizophrenia is “Pink Floyds The Wall.” Yes, they made it into a movie!

Whole film on youtube.

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Ahhhh Roger Waters and the Floyds entrance into Rock opera and a good old 70’s concept album. I wouldn’t say it’s too much about mental illness but I do like the record.

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That’s how I perceived it at least (everyone is different) but yeah! It’s a great film!

Did you know Syd Barret had schizophrenia?

Supposedly so but some think not. The Wall is a work of isolation and general angsty stuff. Depressing for sure but not mental illness.

Apparently the song “Brain Damage” is about schizophrenia.

All I can tell you is that the one time that film made sense to me was when I was completely ripped on acid. Arsed if I could remember what made sense about it after the fog cleared.

Arf.

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I remember the last time I was on acid!

I looked at the sky with a tree. The sky turned orange and the tree turned purple. That freaked me out!

I don’t do that stuff anymore though. Don’t want it to make my schizophrenia worse

The Wall? It was a hallucinatory journey for sure with Sir Bob Geldof but I wouldn’t say the material Waters wrote was about any mental illness except depression…oh and maybe some grandiosity.

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