Any Guy Who Doesn't Want to Get It On with Jennifer Connelly...

Rating: Null/10 (26 April 2003)

...must be crazy! I thought this film was wonderful. I can't imagine how Hollywood could make a film which was more intelligent and sensitive about the subject of mental illness. I write as someone who grew up in a family where a parent was suffering from...cockle doodle doo...paranoid schizophrenia, so I have some first hand experience of the malady. Face it, people. It's not a fun subject. But this film did portray what it's like to be around someone who is suffering from this. And...yikes...to actually suffer from it. That's a small miracle.
If the screenwriter took a few liberties with the story, characters, and so on, he caught what mattered. Nash's story is unique. If he hadn't won the Nobel Prize there's no way this film would have been made (it would have lacked the "Hollywood ending"). And that's the film's genius. Because it does end this way the film makers are able to depict mental illness for what it is (and I can't think of another film which does this and isn't so depressing it drives away the audience). Well done. Clap clap clap.