8/10
Schizophrenic Bio-Pic...Analysis Splits Into 2 Divided & Distinctive Approaches
30 October 2023
A Film that Explores "Real-Life" Professor. John Nash, that Won a Nobel Prize", Late in Life for an Earlier Work ("Economic Science") that Slowly Revolutionized "Business Models" of Bargaining and Other Methods and Practices.

The Ph. D from Princeton, had a Complicated and Troubling Life, Suffered from Paranoid Delusions Linked to His Diagnosed Schizophrenia. His Marriages were Chaotic Caused by His Mental Illness, Anti-Social Behavior, Bi-Sexual Relationships, Public Outbursts, and an Assorted List of Unpleasant Traits.

The Film, Directed by Ron Howard, is a Scrubbed Version that Brought the Wrath of Disappointed and Outrage Comments from a Number of Social-Circles.

Criticizing the Method of the Movie because it Eliminated Almost All the Facts that Would Picture the Controversial and Mental-Health Patient with Negative Images.

By Doing So did the Man, His Illness, His True Social Standing, and so Forth, Claiming the Film was "Oscar-Bait" (it was praised and rewarded hook, line, sinker)...

and Even Capturing "Best Picture" and Russel Crowe as Nash, Best Actor.

So, the Content of the Movie is so Void of Facts that its Credibility Crumbles and it Becomes, at Best, a White-Washed Hollywood Movie, and at Worst a Fraud and a Scam, to Please the Box-Office and the Oscars.

If Viewed with Preconceived Knowledge of What's Going On Here, the Movie Can be Viewed as a Russell Crowe Acting Showcase Packaged as an Entertaining "Game"...

of Govt. Agents, Nash's Delusions of Uncovering a Russian Nuclear Bomb Threat, with some Good Characters Thrown In Featuring Ed Harris, Jennifer Connely, and Others...Inspired by True-Life Events

But if You are Looking for Insights and a Real-Life Portrayal, Including Things Distasteful, and a Portrait, Flaws and All, this is Not That.

John Nash did Possess a "Brilliant Mind", but was also Possessed by Things Not Well Understood. He was also Not a Very Pleasant Person and a Cruel Misanthrope, that was Inflicted by a Very Serious Mental Illness that Science is Still Studying to Clarify Causes and Cures, and this is the 50's and 60's.
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