A Bunch of Garbagge!

Rating: 8/10 (9 September 2006)

I have the illness of schizophrenia and I find this movie misleading propaganda. I do not see imaginary people. I may hear things that aren't there at times. My only moral support is my loving mother. i have no wife and people actually discourage me from trying to find one!My past friends have long forgotten me and some from my childhood seem to be ridiculing me calling me a loser, a failure and a bum. At least the world allowed John Nash some semblance of dignity in his illness. His neighbors nor the police ridiculed him. I am not an important scientist like John Nash. I had a nervous breadkdown in graduate school my senond year. I spend my time in independent Bible study as a part time Christian writer. As a matter of fact, I had once sent a resume to Univerisal Pictures years before that movie came out on a lark thinking because of my superntural dreams that God might be calling me into character acting-maybe I might play a "heavy" in a drug movie or something. Did Universal pick up on my resume and cover letter and decide to make this movie about Schizophrenic genius John Nash? I had bought the PBS American EXPERIENCE video A BRILLIANT MADNESS chronicalling the life of John Nash, too. Because of my illness the subject interested me. The real life of John Nash is a bit different from Ron Howard's fairy tale story. John Nash actually quit taking his meds after awhile and got better! I also had the personal realization that since John Nash never went to class at Princeton and got his PhD basically doing independent study, I realize that there could be some educational or academic value to my 15 years of part time Bible study!