Fact of Fiction?

Rating: Null/10 (8 August 2004)

I just have to say that only people who didn't read the book before seeing this movie can appreciate it, because it was so far from the book as to be comical. Yes, Nash was/is nuts, and figuring out a way to explain the inside of a crazy genius's head is a difficult challenge, however, I think they were way off the mark if the biographical book is to be believed.
Also, the hollywoody way that the film makers kept his wife constant out of her great love and pity for him was also a ruse. Once again, Hollywood whored up history for a buck. I will concede that it might have been entertaining without prior knowledge of the subject matter, but why call it true then? Why not just make a made up movie about a screwed up mathematician and not attach it to the life of a real person?
As a venue for pitying the beautiful and distraught it is top drawer, but nothing more.