Excellent movie, twisted representation of real story

Rating: Null/10 (23 August 2002)

The movie is excellent although the mathematical part is very difficult to present to people with minimal skills and knowledge in this field. Still the movie grabs you from the beginning mostly because of Crowe's acting. Makes you wonder if he has a screw loose himself but this aside. The only critical remark to be made is that the real story about J.F. Nash wasn't that nice like the movie. In real life Nash was scaring his co-workers because of his aggressive behaviour, probably due to his illness. There is no mention about his first wife Elisabeth with which he had his first child and who he betrayed for more then 2 years with Alicia before getting divorce. The fact that he fled to England to stay out of the mental hospital isn't even mentioned, instead he should have voluntarily admitted himself. The fact that he wondered around Princeton and bothered many professors by telephone and his obvious homosexual tendencies where also not mentioned. So in real life he was an a-social guy with aggressive, homosexual, infidel behaviour who happens to be a brilliant scientist in various mathematical fields and physics. By the way, when he got the Nobel price he thanks his wife Alicia for her support and says that without her he didn't what he did but in fact he was already divorced from Alicia by then. Can you figure that? I hope that the film makers didn't intend to make the guy look better than he was because he was an American who got awarded the Nobel price but I have my doubts about that. So for a movie it's excellent but the historical correctness it was a disaster.