MG wrote >>Sadly, it was great acting within a highly sanitized version of Nash's life.<<
I didn't know anything about Nash before the movie & I have little first hand experience with this disease...so this movie made me want to learn more... (thanks mary k for the link)...to me, it was eye opening to see that someone suffering from schizophrenia was as highly functional as Nash was...& as innovatively brilliant... >>>the true trials of maintaining a relationship when one partner suffers from a mental illness stayed unexplored.<<< absolutely...i can't imagine how difficult this must have been... >>>I'm still thinking a lot about art and genius and what makes some of us go tick..tock and others of us go ...ockt itck. <<< LOL...well put! i have pondered this for a long long time...Robin Williams was just on Bravo's Behind the Actor Studio & described his comedy as (& demonstrated) legalized insanity...his high school class voted him the funniest & least likely to succeed...
