Great Film (Spoiler)

Rating: Null/10 (8 July 2002)

Reading all the other comments, I find it amazing how varied people's tastes are when it comes to movies. I remember being blown away by the FX in Jurassic Park. However, one of the people that went with us said' "It was ok, but the dinosaurs looked fake." I guess it is because people focus on the wrong details. This film isn't really a love story (although the end might persuade you to think that). It is truly a story about mental illness, and it attempts to take the audience on a guided tour inside the mind of a paranoid-schizophrenic. I believe it handled this well, although there are flaws (no film is perfect). I'm sure it wasn't all that faithful to the real John Nash, but it did show that sometimes there is no "magical" pill or cure; defeating our demons can take a lifetime to achieve. This is what made this movie great, notwithstanding the big "plot twist". One more thing: no one has mentioned one of the clues to the delusions: there is a scene where Marcee is running around in a flock of pigeons and they remain motionless, like nobody is really there.