A brilliant story about a true genius, and a tragic life

Rating: 9/10 (23 June 2007)

A Beautiful Mind was incredible. Having missed this in the theatres, I can't help but urge people to watch this one if they can.
Russell Crow and Jennifer Connelly did an incredible job of showing the difficulties of living with an illness like Schizophrenia, not just for the person suffering from it, but for their loved ones as well. I don't know much about the actual Professor Nash, but if he dealt with even half of what they show in the movie, he must be an incredible man.
The thing that took me by surprise in this movie is that there is only one scene in this movie that was before his hallucinations. They do such a great job of blending the early hallucinations into the move that you never question them until you realize what they are. You hear all about the dangerous hallucinations when it comes to this sort of illness, but never the seemingly innocuous ones. This movie showed the dichotomy quite well, I thought.
Definitely a movie worth seeing.