A Beautiful Mind

Not just the title of the movie, but the movie itself is just beautiful. It was like reading a poem, feeling a music and a just nice movie. I watched it twice. The first time, I just watched the movie. But the second time when I saw, I could notice all those minute details also which were like wow impressive.
Coming to the story of this movie, well it is based on the life of Noble Laurette John Nash. The movie is about how the young Nash becomes schizophrenic and how he has to go through the disease and what is the impact it brings on his wife and friends. It becomes really sad when he has to watch the burden he is being on his wife and his friends. The movie is just not about numbers and how genius Nash is but it also tells about unconditional love and trust.

How nice it is to fall in love and be loved unconditionally.

The story is about Nash, who is good at numbers but a introvert guy and is never good with people. When he arrives at Princeton University he meets Charles his room mate who becomes his best friend. But the irony is that, there is no Charles. That was just his delusion. Later he meets Charles's nephew Marcee who also is not a real person but part of Nash's delusion.
Later he meets one of his students Alicia and both fell in love and get married. And Nash gets his hallucinations worse where he is being taunted by some Parcher who is the head of United States Department of Defence. Nash has to work for Parcher by reading the daily magazines and journals to find any secret codes or messages being sent. Now that is all his illusion and he works on it until one day he imagines being followed by Russians and he thinks they are going to kill him.

That is when Alicia takes him to psychiatrist and he gets treated with meds and insulin shock therapy. Ideally all those messages he has decoded Nash used to put in one secret mail box which Alicia opens and shows Nash that they are all unopened and it is all his illusion. But Nash finds it difficult to believe Alicia and he thinks even that as a plot by Russians.

Finally when Parcher and Charles force Nash to kill Alicia since she now knows the secret that Nash sees Marcee the little girl and suddenly realizes that over the years Marcee has never grown up and she still is a small girl and then he realizes that he is actually imagining those characters. But since the medicines he takes worsens his relationship with his wife and also with Mathematics he tells his wife that he will apply his mind when he sees those characters and she supports him. In the end Nash lives his life , he still sees those characters who talk to him and taunts him but he manages to live with it and also manages to become a most respected Professor who also finally awarded Nobel prize for game theory. That is how the movie ends.

Now the fine moments of the movie which I just adored are lots but to tell about quite a few..

There is one scene about how you value people and value the things that they give. In one scene Nash takes Alicia to a art gallery during their courtship and Alicia just keeps a kerchief on his pocket. And Nash was busy seeing people talking to them while Alicia was watching a painting and she explains Nash that she loves colours. It looked as if Nash was self absorbed becoz he doesnt reply anything to Alicia but on her birthday he gifts her with a crystal and he tells her this crystal will reflect all the colors. It was just a nice moment and when Alicia replies him with a surprise that she never realized Nash was listening.. and also he always keeps the kerchief with him.When Alicia tells him that she gave him the kerchief since she thinks that it would bring luck, he replies that he doesnt belive in luck but he values it because it was given to him by her. He values people and things.That was really touching. And throughout when he has to suffer, it impacts Alicia also but she never gives up on him. She continues to live with him and support him. And in the last scene when all his fellow professors come and honour him by putting their pen down , it was like wow, it just brought tears in eyes.

Overall it might look like some slow movie but its a nice , good and wonderful movie.

Actually one of the important life of lesson about not giving up on our loved ones is what I liked about the movie.At times we avoid our loved ones when they need us the most because we are afraid of seeing them in pain.We feel that we cant take it and we dont have energy to see them suffer and so we avoid them or avoid being in that situation.

Actually if our loved ones suffer in pain then its more painful to just watch them suffer the pain and feel helpless.I had felt it when my grand dad was not well and I was afraid to be with him. I was really scared and felt helpless.Sameway when my grand ma was not well I wanted to be with her but unfortunately before I could reach she left me.

When I was in college as part of NSS we had to go to Royapettah Govt hospital and do service for the patients. I had seen one young guy who was in AIDs ward. It was only then the awareness of AIDS was among people but still many were not clear. There was a misconception that if you even be anywhere near the patient you will fall sick. So we had to get special permission letter from our parents to go to the ward and do counselling. I had forged a letter as if signed by my father and had gone there for atleast 3 weeks. It was really really sad to see that young guy dying out of AIDS for no fault of his He had met with accident and blood transfusion had caused it to him. And the moment they realized he was having AIDs his own parents had left him there. He was like one orphan. He used to talk to me in a different tamil. The first day I was with him.he was really arrogant. Later he was okay to talk to me. We kind of became even like good buddies. His name was senthilnathan. But it was just for 3 weeks after which I could not go there and also he was transferred to different hospital and unfortunately I dont know what had happened to him. But when I was there, it felt sad because when he was sick all he needed was his parents and those loved ones around him. He had a good sense of humour and was able to even laugh with me. But I could sense the sadness in his eyes. It would trouble your heart in a very different way. It was like after I spend an hour and come out of hospital , the whole day used to be very depressing. Where I am fighting with my sis for small petty things and worrying about my exam marks and where a guy who is younger to me has to face death alone!!! Even to write it sends a shiver inside.

Now coming back to the movie..well..It is really worth watching and worth the oscars it has won especially Russel Crowe for his wonderful expressions. He has lived the character of Nash.

In the end,May be you need not only beautiful mind but also lots of tolerance.May be instead of asking Why me God? should we pray Give me the courage Lord!!!

Life is filled with moments and certain things cannot be changed. So the best way is to atleast act happy and may be you would really be happy. Its all in the attitude to make those moments into precious moments.

Love All. Serve All.