If you like someone, make a movie for him, and if you hate someone, make a movie for him too. If it weren't for this Oscar movie, John Nash would still be unknown, but for economics students, this is a hateful test center maker. After "A Beautiful Mind", Nash has become a symbolic symbol, although people may not understand what a Nash equilibrium is. But to the Chinese, he is probably the most well-known mathematician other than Chen Jingrun. The news of Nash's death in a car accident last year made headlines on major websites, more so than some national leaders.
In fact, the movie is still an old Hollywood routine. Mathematical geniuses become famous at a young age, and they meet beautiful women and friends. They go crazy and imagine the Cold War and doubts, and never give up on miracles. The echoes before and after the pen delivery and the final speech moved the audience to a successful conclusion. The prince and princess really lived happily together. Not only did they stay together for a lifetime, but also a touching love story that kept the clouds scattered and flowers blooming. As long as you don't give up, anything is possible, an inspirational and warm chicken soup. The actor Russell Crowe, who was specially recruited by Hollywood, is handsome and hearty, and with Jennifer Connelly, a talented Hollywood woman who graduated from Yale, she looks pleasing to the eye. It is also reasonable to take away the golden man.
In reality, Nash first lived with a hospital nurse and gave birth to a child when he was young, and then abandoned it to find another new love in Kochi. After a mental problem, he and his wife moved in together after a brief divorce. During this period, Nash was silent for more than 30 years. In the past 30 years, the theory created by Nash was gradually accepted and became the basis of modern economics. Since there was no news of Nash, the academic circle even believed that Nash may have died. In fact, Nash's son has also suffered from mental illness for many years. Nash was interviewed after winning the Nobel Prize and said with emotion that if he won the prize alone instead of sharing the prize with three people, it would also improve the life of the next family of three.
Different from the tragic experiences of many mental patients in childhood, Nash grew up in a traditional middle-class town in the United States. His parents received good higher education, and his family was loving and harmonious. He also emerged very early and has been smooth sailing. All reviews of this film should mention Foucault, the French thinker who was infected with AIDS because of his homosexuality, and subverted people's understanding of madness. In his view, the so-called madness is nothing more than the so-called civilized person's perception of the dissident. A product of repression and justification of this coercive discipline. And Foucault's so-called discipline is more than just discrimination against madness, confinement, and even compulsory physical therapy. In modern society, the state, ideology, etc. have long become part of the discipline. So in my opinion, Nash's madness is inseparable from the specific social background of the United States at that time. In the days of Nash's madness, the Cold War had just begun, McCarthyism prevailed, and many top scientists such as Oppenheimer were investigated by the government. And the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where Nash was located was also prevalent in communism, and many of his colleagues were affected. At that time, Nash was probably also full of disappointment and overwhelm with the state apparatus. And Nash had rumors that he was gay when he was a student, and he was fired from a job in a military company after the war because of his homosexuality. At that time, people thought that homosexuality was mostly a sympathizer of communism. At that time, the government regarded homosexuality as a social disease that may cause harm to social security. This is the very famous Lavender scare in American history. Under this circumstance, Nash was disappointed with the existing system, questioned himself and all, so it is not difficult to understand that he wandered in Europe later. From this point of view, Nash's madness has its own specific social and historical roots. And the meaning of this movie, I think, is also more about the crazy people in that crazy era.
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