A Beautiful Mind (Blu-ray + DVD)

Fantastic movie for those who are interested in how math can influence, culture, and business as well as how those with apparent disabilities can become masters of any particular field of professional study and expertise. Great story! Great acting. This copy is fantastic and worth the price.

This is an amazing movie that for me was highly motivational

Recommended to me by a close friend. The movie is sad, yet some how impowering. The story sheds light on mental illness, a particularly misunderstood, and widely stigmatized area of mental illness. A true story of determination, genius, guts, love, and schizophrenia. We still to this day know only limited information on this particular disease, yet if you ask anyone they will most likely have a distorted and uneducated opinion on what it means to suffer from schizophrenia and can describe an unclear and hazy image of a person and what they might look like and be like, even what their life might be like with the illness.The movie uses the effects of the illness in a genius way to help us understand who the main character is and what he goes through everyday. I enjoyed the movie, and was intrigued by the life of this mathematical genius. Perhaps our world would be much different if he wasn't schizophrenic, if he wasn't a math genius, if his life wasn't his life. I found myself wanting to know more about this person, the disease, and why we still know so little about it.I loved that at the end of the movie, I was left with the thought that no matter what you go through, it's really how you deal with it that can be either very sad and depressing or uplifting, motivating, even impowering. We all have a choice on how we deal with things that happen to us, and this movie is an interesting example of what it looks like to want something, to be something that consumes your thoughts your life to the point that even something as serious as schizophrenia might change how your mind sees that something and what the path looks like to achieve it, but wont derail you, because you refuse to let it... and what if that path is actually a better one, a clearer one?

Whatever life throws at you, you can handle it. This is one of the best movies of all time IMO. The surprise ending is well worth the wait

One of the best movies I’ve seen! Starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly. About a mentally challenged man who later gets married goes to University and gets Noble prize non Economics, go figure!

I applaud directors that accept the challenge of making films that have mental illness at the center of its core. The balance between reality and fantasy can become easily blurred for the sake of drama to keep an audience engaged - and 'A Beautiful Mind' is no exception to that observation. ABM tells the story of John Nash (Russell Crowe) - a mathematical genius whose mental illness wrecks having on himself and his wife Alicia (Jennifer Connelly) over time. This movie is based off a real story, despite there being differences present (We'll talk about this later)First and foremost, the representation of individuals with paranoid schizophrenia is wildly accurate. The audience is a witness to it all - the hallucinations, the delusions of grandeur, etc - and the story is shown in such a way that it's hard to tell where the illusions start and where they end. This isn't just a disturbing account of mental illness and their experiences - it's a reality that some people will either 1) relate to as someone with (Or, someone that has a family member that has) a mental illness 2) People that have no experience with this subject, but can only imagine how this might feel. For that alone, this receives at least 3 stars.Jennifer Connelly's role in this film bumps the rating up to a four. Some people might argue that we really don't need to know about how much Nash's illness affects his wife but she acts as a liaison between what the film is showing to an audience and what the film should be making us feel. There is one line in particular that sums up how many people in the support system of a person with an illness, and that's "What I am feeling lately....is obligation". That is a very important thing that people in this role watching may need to hear, and I thank the incredible dialogue for capturing this state of mind without hesitation.Now, the representation of Nashs' mental illness is certainly a strength, mind you, but this also ends up being a double sided coin. Nash in real life really was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, but the symptoms he experienced hardly ever, if even at all, were different from was shown in the film. Nash experienced primarily auditory hallucinations, and this is contrary to the visual hallucinations he is plagued with over the course of this movie.I'll forgive that though, and I'll tell you why; even with all of the advancements in mental health that have been achieved, it is hard for some people to wrap the idea of being "sick in the head" without some amount of proof. If the director had shown primarily auditory hallucinations, I think it would be harder to distinguish between moments where is having what is an OBVIOUS delusion and times where he appears to be thinking to himself (I mean, he is a mathematician for crying out loud). Inaccurate? Yes. Harmful enough to lose a star on my rating? Far from it.A good story regarding the complexity of coping with illnesses we can't always see - and that, without a doubt, is too important to ignore.Immerse yourself in to this movie without judgement, and you'll find it easy to enjoy and digest.I would recommend!

Loved this fantastic film directed by Ron Howard and starring Russell Crowe. Heartwarming and keeps the viewers interest as the star struggles through real life experiences as he’s challenged with symptoms of Schizophrenia.

Love math movies