A Beautiful Mind

If you had been told at the start of the twenty-first century that a psychological movie based on the true story of Nobel Prize-winner and mathematician John Nash would be one of the best Hollywood blockbusters in the following years, you would have been suspicious. However, it is the truth!

The magnificence of John Nash's earlier years - as shown in "A Beautiful Mind" - and the misery of his mental health difficulties are both true. According to his bio written on the Nobel Prize website, Nash was just 21 years old when he wrote the seminal paper on game theories, for which he would get the Nobel Prize 45 years later, on June 13, 1928, in Bluefield, Virginia.

"The mental difficulties began in the early days of 1959, at a period when my wife appeared to be pregnant," Nash wrote. As Bright Side pointed out, Nash had begun to exhibit indications of schizophrenia, an illness that he would live with for the remainder of his life. The film "A Beautiful Mind" depicted Nash as a person with dramatic visual hallucinations. Nevertheless, Nash's symptoms were actually aural.

Release year: 2001

Director: Ron Howard

IMDB Score: 8.2/10