Thank God he was a complete loony

Rating: Null/10 (18 June 2011)

Aside from Crowe's brilliant performance, I would like to share a few thoughts about the meaning of this movie.
Nash was an homosexual. After WWII he was, like other brilliant men such as Turing in the UK, persecuted for that. He also came up with a theory that would threaten the hegemony of the neoclassic school of thought.
For these two reasons I can't help but feeling anger rise when faced with history as this movie rewrites it.
Nash is depicted as an harmless scatterbrain, being given the prize once his ideas have become extinct, flooded in the triumph of the post-USSR world hegemony of the economy-driven powers.
What a reassuring thought to think, really: one who refuses to abide to the new world order must have gone seriously funny in the head for quite a long time. With a sigh of relief we can go back to business. Or can we?