Compared with "The Imitation Game" and "The Theory of Everything", "A Beautiful Mind" 14 years ago is farther from the historical facts. It's even based on a novel, and John Nash has stated that it's not about his life. Directed by mature commercial film director Ron Howard, it is also more commercialized, adding and deleting plots without any scruples. For example, most of the characters are fictional. In reality, the two have long since divorced. Nash abandoned the illegitimate mother and son. The Princeton Pen Giving Ceremony, the Nobel Prize Speech, and more. Everything serves to create a wonderful feature film.
What was the most "wonderful" thing about Nash's life? For film directors and audiences, compared to game theory and Nash equilibrium, schizophrenia is obviously a better material to express in visual language. So, rather than a biography of John Nash, this is an excellent film for experiencing schizophrenia. This is probably the only suspense thriller that takes schizophrenia seriously, rather than the kind of suspense thriller that uses fine points to find an explanation. It allows the audience to experience various symptoms together with Nash unknowingly. The surrounding of this world looks a little weird. Maybe the world of genius is different. And then at a certain point it dawned on me that, oh, it was insane. The moment of realization also varies from audience to audience, rather than making a fool of yourself for a long time and then shaking the burden together. Pushing the table off the windowsill, talking to the air, newspaper clippings littering the room (the moment his wife opened the door of the abandoned warehouse was such a shock), sending "intelligence" to a place, even cutting his own wrist and hurting his wife The edge of , is undoubtedly very scary to others, but from Nash's point of view, it is a matter of course. Interestingly, patients can still feel the presence of these hallucinations after they realize they are hallucinations. This ingenious arrangement makes the audience feel the schizophrenic's sensory world and the indescribable pain in a very convincing way.
Each of us has unquenchable desires, and unsatisfied desires continually attack our intellectual defenses. Some people's desires are particularly single and powerful, and that line of defense may collapse, allowing the divided senses to roar wantonly to satisfy unfinished desires. The three fantasy characters Nash sees in the film are his college roommate, his roommate's niece, and a mysterious high-ranking Defense Department official. They also symbolize his three unfinished desires: ununderstood, lack of affinity for dealing with people, and overkill. . Only a confidant friend, a little girl who wants to embrace her with open arms, and a trust that concerns the safety of mankind, can fill the thousands of gaps in his wounded heart. When he realized they weren't real, it didn't mean that those desires were no longer there, so they still lingered. So he admitted their existence, but chose to ignore them, which became the smartest countermeasure.
Russell Crowe's performance is remarkable, whether it is a genius who deduces mathematics on the window, a geek who records the trajectory of pigeons on the lawn, and the pain and struggle of hallucinations, who can't control themselves but is afraid of scaring others. , which is commendable and shows a little humor and charm of a schizophrenic. Compared to "Gladiator", his performance in this film deserves an Oscar.
Behind the schizophrenia is the great love that silently persists. Perhaps "Beautiful Mind" was referring to Mrs. Nash. As elegant and beautiful as Jennifer Connelly, from the romantic beauty of the first acquaintance, the shock of seeing her husband for the first time, the shock of the diagnosis, and then for decades, until the final result. This is not a love fairy tale, it is a love myth. Although this is very different from the story of the Nash couple in reality, it does not prevent us from celebrating all kinds of selfless love.
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