More than just a biography

Rating: 10/10 (25 November 2018)

A Beautiful Mind is in fact a beautiful film. This film didn't just tell the story word for word for an audience to just to see what happened in Nash's life, director Ron Howard highlights his self-discovery experience especially and uses it as an educational tool for people to learn from, which is very important for people to understand how hard it is to acknowledge something harrowing like schizophrenia. The film makes you tag on to John Nash's life and you don't formally know he has schizophrenia until he finds out himself, at first you doubt it as much as he did, but it's what you're suppose to think. The film teaches you to empathise with not just schizophrenics but for all people who suffer different strains of mental illness.
Howard converts psychological experiences onto screen in ways for the audience to experience Nash's episodes of delusions and hallucinations. This is a very substansial way of empathising for him and prove that something like schizophrenia is not easy to get over.
Ron Howard further presents another theme which is the power of love. John Nash's life was going downhill but thanks to the help of his wife he manages to get through it. This shows that love is an excellent source of motivation for which you can learn from.
A Beautiful Mind is an educational masterpiece