"Classes will dull your mind. Destroys the potential for authentic creativity."
Albert Einstein: drop-out. Thomas Edison: failure. Mark Zuckerberg: undergrad. John Nash: schizophrenic. And so we learn from these unreasonable people the art of intelligence not wholly being dependent from the educational standards we've all thought to be that necessary.
And we learn their struggles to cope up with the unreasonable world.
We may hate economics, but the name John Nash (Russell Crowe) rings heroic and legendary to this field practically affecting the world's existence in its cruel benchmarks. One day he's in Princeton University proving a mathematical equation for how bad a tie is, and discovering a logical possibility for how rhythmical is a flock of birds' eating positions. Another day he's in Pentagon preventing any nuclear and terrorist threats by breaking codes.
And another day he's in a mental hospital, not knowing what's real and what's not.
They say it's worse than hell, to see things others don't. They're not ghosts, but real people blending in with your environment, and then you find out they're horribly figments of your imagination. During his early life at college, John Nash had already suffered from this mental illness called "schizophrenia", but the worse part was he didn't even "suffered" from it; his imaginary roommate even became his friend--his only friend.
I've read a book about schizophrenia, entitled "Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl". From what the girl described, things, people and places seem to "expand" and become unrealistic. There often were flashes of illuminating light and she saw people as "mechanical robots", while she was alone, threatened by her own mind, and unrealistic herself.
These may be worse scenarios of the mental illness, but it didn't equally get better for the math genius as his imaginary friend Charles (Paul Bettany) and top secret colleague Parcher (Ed Harris) began to haunt him, jeopardizing his looming career.
Sometimes what we can't solve in our minds we can solve in our hearts. It became very difficult for John to submit himself to the real world, while his "ghosts" always tailed on him. But with the help of his faithful wife Alicia (Jennifer Connelly) he managaed to emerge from his blackhole and became a legendary Nobel laureate.
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| "I need to believe that something exrraordinary is possible.'- Alicia Nash |
As John said, "It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found."
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