I got the chance to watch “A Beautiful Mind” on Friday in the Rose Dining Hall. I’ve been meaning to watch this film when my friend brought it up a few weeks ago. This film focuses on John Nash’s (a prolific mathematician) personal and academic life. I thought some parts of the film were a bit cheesy and overdramatic, especially the scenes where they would focus in on his face and show how he is mentally calculating arbitrary letters on a newspaper. The film had a nice twist towards the end when they revealed Nash’s condition because I would never expect him to have schizophrenia. Although the main part of the film was to celebrate Nash’s life as a mathematician and show how his illness affected his family, it also gave a very important message to its viewers. A brilliant man like Nash is not immune to mental illnesses; illness does not discriminate. Any ordinary person or award winning mathematician can become a victim to it. As the film comes to an end, I looked up John Nash on wikipedia because I was so fascinated about how he was able to deal with such a crippling illness while contributing extraordinary feats in game theory. I learned that his personality and personal life were not accurately captured in the film, and it was apparently what most of the critics were complaining about. However, the movie did a great job of portraying what it was like for him to deal with schizophrenia despite some inaccuracies in depicting his actual character.