A Beautiful Mind about the mathematician John Nash. But I'm not the one making the charge of historic inaccuracy. A friend of ours was in the same Princeton class as Mr Nash. His wife says that all throughout the movie he kept insisting "it wasn't like that" to the annoyance of all around them.
On the one hand, obviously some poetic license is necessary when trying to convey his struggles with psychotic breaks while still pulling off mathematical conquests. But on the other, I'm pretty annoyed by most of Hollywood's attempts to portray psychosis. I found it objectionable on that basis alone.
On the one hand, obviously some poetic license is necessary when trying to convey his struggles with psychotic breaks while still pulling off mathematical conquests. But on the other, I'm pretty annoyed by most of Hollywood's attempts to portray psychosis. I found it objectionable on that basis alone.
