A Beautiful Mind: The Shooting Script – An Academy Award-Winning Drama of Genius, Schizophrenia, and Redemption

by Akiva Goldsman

"A Beautiful Mind, the intensely human drama of a true genius, is inspired by events in the life of mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. The handsome and highly eccentric Nash made an astonishing discovery early in life and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But his white-hot ascent into the intellectual stratosphere drastically changed course when Nash's intuitive brilliance was undermined by schizophrenia. Facing challenges that have destroyed many others, Nash fought back, with the help of his devoted wife Alicia. After decades of hardship, he triumphed over tragedy, and received the Nobel Prize in 1994. A living legend, Nash continues to pursue his work today." Directed by Ron Howard and produced by Brian Grazer, this Universal and DreamWorks production stars Russell Crowe as John Nash. The screenplay of A Beautiful Mind was written by Akiva Goldsman and based in part on the biography of Sylvia Nasar. The cast also includes Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, and Judd Hirsch.

Genres: Media Tie In, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Film, Physics

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 25, 2002

About the author

Akiva Goldsman is an American filmmaker.
Goldsman's filmography as a screenwriter includes The Client; Batman Forever and its sequel Batman & Robin; I, Robot; I Am Legend; Cinderella Man, and numerous rewrites that (some credited, some uncredited). He also wrote more than a dozen episodes for the science fiction television series Fringe.
In 2002, Goldsman received the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind, which also won the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 2006, Goldsman re-teamed with A Beautiful Mind director Ron Howard to adapt Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code for Howard's film. He also wrote the screenplay for its 2009 sequel Angels & Demons.
Goldsman is also known for co-developing the DC Comics TV series Titans and the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Picard, a sequel to Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Nemesis. He is also the co-creator of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, a prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series.

Reviews

[Aalaa Mahmoud · Rating 5 out of 5]

‪Despite the spectacular acting, Reading the script was as joyful as watching the movie.‬

[جابر طاحون · Rating 5 out of 5]

جون فوربس ناش رياضي أمريكي اهتم بنظرية الألعاب والهندسة التفاضلية. كان مصاباً بمرض نفسي هو الفصام، ولكن ذلك لم يمنعه من أن يكون عبقرياً فذاً.
بدت على جون ناش أعراض انفصام الشخصية عام 1958. حيث اعتقد طول سنينه في برنستون (1945-1949) ان لديه شريكآ في غرفته, لكن الوثائق بينت أنه كان يسكن لوحده، أصبح مذعورا وأدخل إلى مشفى ماك لين، نيسان-ايار 1959, حيث شخصوا إصابته بانفصام الشخصية الارتيابي مع اكتئاب بسيط وقلة التقدير للذات. بعد البقاء الصعب في باريس وجنيف, عاد ناش إلى برنستون في عام 1960, وظل يدخل ويخرج من مستشفيات الأمراض العقلية حتى عام 1970, حيث يتم إعطاءه العلاج النفسي بصدمة الانسولين وأدوية للمعالجة النفسية, عادة بدافع الالتزام وليس باختياره. منذ سنة 1970, لم يعد يتعاطى ادوية للمعالجة النفسية مرة أخرى. وتبعا لمدونة سيرته الذاتية سيلفيا نازار, شفي بالتدريج مع مرور الوقت. وبتشجيع من زوجته اليسيا, عمل ناش في وضع مجتمعي حيث يمكن تقبل غرابة أطواره.. في الساحة الجامعية، أصبح ناش (شبح القاعة الرائعة) (القاعة الرائعة هي قاعة الرياضيات في برنستون), رجل الظل الذي يخربش معادلات سرية على السبورات في منتصف الليل. الأسطورة تظهر في قصة عن حياة برنستون, المشكلة العقلية الجسدية, التي كنتها ربيكا غولدستين.

جون ناش ، جنون العبقرية ، أو عبقرية الجنون !

[Pooja Kashyap · Rating 3 out of 5]

Advanced mathematics coupled with severe mental illness, this is what the book, A Beautiful Mind is about. Sylvia Nasar professor of journalism at Columbia University, has done full justice in surfacing Nash’s life, his youth, college life, his work before and after he earned his doctorate and finally to his breakdown then illness and eventually his recovery. A Beautiful Mind juxtaposes sadness and the will to succeed despondency and depression.
John Forbes Nash Jr. had a knack of solving complex mathematical expressions in his own way. Some of his ideas when he was at Princeton gave rise to major theories in the fields of economics and politics. When he was in his thirties, his life started cocooning itself with schizophrenic delusions. It is really heart wrenching to read his time spent in mental hospitals. It took him nearly thirty years to come up of the delusions but not fully though and it was during the same phase, he was bestowed with Nobel Prize in Economics in the year 1994, which he shared with Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi.
The book wasn’t an easy read especially when it talked about the mathematical equations and theories but one thing is for sure, after going through the masterpiece one will gain considerable knowledge in interesting fields like game theory and Nash’s equilibrium. The book shed light on the remarkable ways through which Nash was able to bring up the theories and eventually his significant contributions in the world of mathematics.
Nasar delves the reader on thinking mode when she describes the socio-economic level of the 60s and 70s, where the book surfaces the ways that society deals with people suffering from schizophrenia in general. Nash being the subject, the book explores the hidden potential of an individual who is being constantly nagged by the hallucinations, till the extent of receiving electric shocks daily and yet that unflinching faith of his friends and family keeps in rowing and finally after drifting through the realms of delusions for years, he is able to return to his rationality.
For me, it is one of the best biographies that I have read so far. It’s not just the protagonist but the other characters as well who made me think over to the situation on an emotional level. Even during those days, the competition was tough between the scholars of mathematics yet all gave their helping hand when Nash required the most.
As mention before, Nasar has done a commendable job in penning down the mysteries of human mind. Although disturbing in between but rewarding as we touch upon the last few pages of the book.

[Kevin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved the movie: A Beautiful Mind. I like reading stage plays. I wondered what it would be like to read a screenplay. Before I begin: I was approaching the screenplay format as a storytelling format, as a piece of literature. Admittedly, a screenplay serves a very different purpose. A Beautiful Mind is a cool story, but the screenplay doesn’t describe the action sequences, or settings, in enough detail to make the story rich – certainly not as rich as it appeared on the screen (makes you appreciate what the directors and actors add to the total package). Stage plays don’t rely on action sequences or rich settings, so they express the drama effectively without it. The screenplay format is a bit too bare-boned. If I hadn’t seen the movie, a number of times, I’m not sure I would have enjoyed the screenplay as much as I did.

[Nicholas · Rating 5 out of 5]

I only gave this five stars because I know people are more likely to look at the higher-rated reviews. Well, at least that’s what I think. Ha! Ha! It’s not any good. In fact, it’s just more MI6/DOD propaganda.

I remember watching movies and tv shows in the past that showed people who were “mentally ill,” especially people who were seeing and talking to people that no one else could see. I always thought to myself, “This isn’t true.” Back then I just thought it was done for entertainment purposes. I now know it’s actually propaganda to get people to believe in the lie of mental illness, especially schizophrenia.

Have you ever seen the show Criminal Minds? You’ll see a lot of characters on there with “mental illness.” Again, this gets people to believe in that nonsense. It also gets people to believe that the FBI is an agency that’s used for good. It’s not. There’s nothing good about the FBI. There never was. There never will be.

John Forbes Nash Jr. wasn’t schizophrenic. He worked for the CIA.

There is no such thing as mental illness. Psychiatry is fraud. It always has been. It is used to distract, confuse, divide, oppress and control the population. It was, and still is, used as a cover for anything illegal that’s being done. If you speak out about the government spying on, torturing and killing people, you’re labeled a paranoid schizophrenic, crazy, insane or mad. Funny how that works, huh? Oh, isn’t it also funny how they call it “mental health” now? Ha! Ha! More on that later.

“Schizophrenia is defined so vaguely that, in actuality, it is a term often applied to almost any kind of behavior of which the speaker disapproves.”
—Thomas Szasz, author of The Myth of Mental Illness

“For centuries, involuntary psychiatric interventions were regarded as things done for the so-called patient rather than as things done to him…increasing numbers of persons, both in the mental-health professions and in public life, have come to acknowledge that involuntary psychiatric intervention are methods of social control. On both moral and practical grounds, I advocate the abolition of all involuntary psychiatry.”
—Thomas Szasz

“Only the State can deprive you of liberty legally. Remember that. Only the State and its agents—lawyers, judges, psychiatrists, doctors, policemen. They have their legal power to injure you.”
—Thomas Szasz

“It’s not science. It’s politics and economics. That’s what psychiatry is—politics and economics. Behavior control. It is not science. It is not medicine. This is so big that it’s—it boggles the mind.”
—Thomas Szasz

“Psychiatry’s claim that mental illnesses are brain diseases is a claim supposedly based on recent discoveries in neuroscience, made possible by [brain] imaging techniques for diagnosis and pharmacological agents for treatment. This is not true.”
—Thomas Szasz

“There’s no biological imbalance. When people come to me and they say, ‘I have a biochemical imbalance,’ I say, ‘Show me your lab tests.’ There are no lab tests. So what’s the biochemical imbalance?”
—Ron Leifer

“All psychiatrists have in common that when they are caught on camera or on microphone, they cower and admit that there are no such things as chemical imbalances/diseases, or examinations or tests for them. What they do in practice, lying in every instance, abrogating [revoking] the informed consent right of every patient and poisoning them in the name of ‘treatment’ is nothing short of criminal.” —Dr. Fred Baughman Jr., Pediatric Neurologist

“No biochemical, neurological, or genetic markers have been found for Attention Deficit Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Depression, Schizophrenia, anxiety, compulsive alcohol and drug abuse, overeating, gambling or any other so-called mental illness, disease, or disorder.”
—Bruce Levine, Ph.D., psychologist and author of Commonsense Rebellion

“Virtually anyone at any given time can meet the criteria for bipolar disorder or ADHD. Anyone. And the problem is everyone diagnosed with even one of these ‘illnesses’ triggers the pill dispenser.”
—Stefan Kruszewski

1. Jesus is the son of man, not of God.
2. My life is worthless. I’m going to kill myself.
3. My human rights are being violated by the secret police.

“The person who uttered the first of these statements was considered to be a heretic in medieval Catholic countries because he was said to deny God. The person who utters the second or third statement is considered to be a psychotic in the U.S., or U.S. society, respectively, because he’s said to deny reality. Obviously, the secret police is only protecting him. And since the American motto is, ‘keep smiling,’ obviously, if you are depressed and want to kill yourself, we better lock you up.”
—Thomas Szasz

“I look upon all of psychiatry in serious branches, organic, Freudian, Jungian, psychiatric, anthropologist, commenting on all these various faiths, and my view towards all of them is they are all fine practiced voluntarily without state coercion, and they are all evil that they are enforced, like enforced state coercion. And I also said…they are all intellectually faulty because they all seek relief along some medical, technical lines for something for which there is no relief known as life. Life is something you got to endure and live as intelligently as you can day in and day out, and there’s no solution for it.”
—Thomas Szasz

“Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.”
—Thomas Szasz

Szasz used to talk about stigmatization. So what did psychiatrists and the pharmaceutical companies do? Well, they came out with an anti-stigmatization campaign. They got celebrities, like Disney actors and singers, to come out and say they have a mental illness and that it’s ok. Of course these people have serious problems. They’re Disney stars. Oh, if you haven’t figured it out yet, Disney, like almost everything else, is run by MI6/DOD. Anyway, are they mentally ill? Do they have a disease? Do they need drugs? Nope. This campaign has been going on for around twenty years now, and it works. Unfortunately, there’s so much of this propaganda online.

The term “mental illness” doesn’t even make sense. The mind can’t be ill. It can’t have a disease. It’s not physical, not a material thing. The mind is not the brain.

I’ve noticed the term “mental health” a lot recently. I suspect someone at one of the meetings with the top psychiatry and drug company scumbags said something like this: “There are people who know the mind can’t be ill, and they also know everything we say about chemical imbalances is a lie. We’re not after them. Using the term ‘mental health’ is part of our anti-stigmatization campaign. The term helps suck people into our lie. Instead of saying someone has a mental illness, we can say they’re having problems with their mental health. You can say to someone something like, ‘You seem to be suffering from depression. I can write you a prescription, which will help you with your mental health.’ We should use this term in our ads. It’s less stigmatizing than ‘mental illness.’ Also, some people who are suffering a problem or problems in life might not think they’re mentally ill. They’re likely to not seek our treatment. The term ‘mental health’ can possibly change that.”

If you keep telling someone, especially a child, that they have a mental illness, they’re most likely going to believe it. They’ll probably constantly dwell on it, and that will change their behavior, typically not for the better. And if you give them psychiatric drugs, which are extremely dangerous, it’s definitely going to change them, especially if they take them over a long period of time, which a lot of people do because they were told they are mentally ill and they need drugs. Remember, there is no cure for mental illness, only treatment. How convenient for pharmaceutical companies.

Seriously, look up the dangerous effects of all these drugs. These are not side effects. They’re the main effect designed to incapacitate the person. There���s a reason some people call them chemical lobotomies. It’s funny how placebos work in a lot of cases when it comes to mental illness. That’s because there’s no such thing as mental illness. Placebos don’t work for any real disease.

Oh, yeah, if you’re locked up in a psychiatric prison, they’ll force you to take these drugs. If you refuse, they’ll probably give you another mental illness—oppositional defiant disorder!

If someone has persistent complex bereavement disorder and they die, will an autopsy find persistent complex bereavement disorder in the brain? What about schizophrenia? Schizoaffective disorder? Paranoid schizophrenia? Schizophreniform disorder? ADHD? Bipolar? What about secret schizoids? Are they going to find secret schizophrenia hiding in the brain? Ha! Ha! Come out secret schizophrenia! I know you’re in there! I’m going to find you!

Psychiatrists are like psychics. Throw a bunch of shit out, something will stick. A psychiatrist will say if you have four out of these ten symptoms, you have some bullshit mental illness, and you’ll believe it. A psychic will say thirty different things, three of them could somewhat possibly relate to you, and one of them does relate to you. You latch on to those things and believe in the psychic’s magical powers. Both the psychiatrist and the psychic get your money, and you walk out a chump, continuing to live in a false reality.

Does your mood change? You have bipolar disorder! Is your government spying on you and torturing you with DEWs? You’re on the schizophrenia spectrum! You’re psychotic! Crazy! Paranoid! Delusional! Do you have schizophrenia episodes that last longer than one month but less than six months? You have schizophreniform disorder! Do you talk too much? You have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder! Are you sad because of a major life change? You have major depressive disorder! Are you sad because you lost a friend or relative, which is a major life change? You have prolonged grief disorder! Do you get nervous? Are you afraid of certain things? You have anxiety disorder! Do you worry about things? You have generalized anxiety disorder! Do you clean a lot because you’re afraid of germs? You have obsessive-compulsive disorder! Do you like things to be orderly? Do you follow the rules? Do you strive for perfection? You have obsessive-compulsive personality disorder! Are you fucked up from taking drugs and drinking alcohol? You have substance-induced mood disorder! Do you enjoy manipulating and exploiting people? You have antisocial personality disorder! Have you ever experienced a traumatic event? You have post-traumatic stress disorder! Have you ever experienced a prolonged traumatic event? You have complex post-traumatic stress disorder! Do you have PTSD that developed more than six months after the traumatic event? You have delayed expression post-traumatic stress disorder! Is psychiatry bullshit? Yes!

[Realini Ionescu · Rating 4 out of 5]

A Beautiful Mind, based on the book by Sylvia Nasar


A Beautiful Mind is a resplendent, radiant and…beautiful film.

It has fully deserved the Academy Awards, Golden Globes and multiple other prizes bestowed on it, especially if we consider competitors like The Lord of the Rings and Moulin Rouge!
The Beautiful Mind belongs to the dazzling mathematician, Noble Prize winner john Nash, portrayed with magnificence by Russell Crowe.

It is clear early on, how important mathematicians can be, albeit the public does not think about them, never mind understand anything of the work of those who have created the atomic bombs, or whose contribution was quintessential, deciphered the enemy codes in World War II and saved maybe hundreds of thousands of lives in the process.
As a student, it is evident that although supremely gifted, John Nash is not the best social companion, to say the least, for he immediately pronounces that the tie of the interlocutor could not be made mathematically uglier, or words to that effect.

When they go out for a drink, at the bar near the faculty, John Nash talks to a young woman and says something like…we are supposed to converse, in order to arrive at the point where we exchange fluids, but why don’t we cut through the chase and just get to the stage where we have sexual intercourse…
He gets slapped and rejected, evidently, but he does not like losing, as happens in a game of – it could have been- go, where the one who would become Nash’s dean moves the marbles better and provokes a furious gesture, the Beautiful Mind runs from the table and throws the pieces to the ground.

On another outing, as all the male students are focused on a group of young women, they prefer within set a very attractive, splendid blonde, exchanging jokes and veiled threats among them, only to determine John Nash to sketch the scheme of what would be his ultimate theory, called:
The Nash Equilibrium…

He explains to his colleagues that Adam Smith was wrong in purporting that if all actors act for their own benefit, the outcome would be the best possible.

Nash suggests that, if they all go for the blonde, the men would all annihilate each other’s efforts, whereas the best result would have them all ignore the most coveted woman, the blonde who is the secret of their failure, if they all fight for her.
Therefore, it is best for all to work for their own benefit, but also for the advantage of the group and this theory would be the basis of other research, would have an impact in economics, where it is applied, but also in other domains, like evolutionary biology, and it has ultimately won the Nobel for Nash, but not before a representative was sent to talk to the mathematician to assess his state of mind.

It is fascinating in this scenario to admire the Beautiful Mind in all its glory, but also to commiserate with him when he descends into hell, reaching a nadir when his mind starts to wonder and he imagines things.
Studies have demonstrated that people with mental issues tend to be the most creative, inventive, and in the case of John Nash, the same mind that gave the world the Equilibrium Theory is responsible for nightmares, visions and torment, with the mathematician imagining he is employed by a secret agent to track the actions of the Soviets in the United States.

The brilliance of the screenplay and the director, Ron Howard, makes audiences doubt for a long time, not knowing for sure how much of this work does happen, what is real and what has been envisaged only in the sick part of the Beautiful Mind.
The creative paranoia has both Nash and his CIA or NSA partner followed in a fast car chase, they are fired upon by what might be Soviet agents and ultimately Parcher aka Ed Harris presents a threat to the family of the scientist.

Jennifer Connelly is the winner of the Academy Award, Golden Globe and other splendid prizes for her role as the wife of the sensational professor, Alicia Nash and she is one of the most charming, sophisticated, delicate, aristocratic, divine, classy, seraphic, mesmerizing, exuberant actresses in the world.
When Nash thinks he is threatened by Parcher, who thinks his wife knows too much and has a gun pointed at the woman who hold their child, the professor ties to interpose, only to throw his wife against the furniture.

From the outside, this looks like the paranoiac has reached the unacceptable limit and he is a danger to his family, indeed, there is another instance when he is supposed to watch over his baby, as the latter takes a bath, only to endanger him again, with his hallucinations and distraction.

After receiving treatment, which seems to work and make paranoiacs that take their medication comport with absolute normality, the mathematician returns to university, in some heartbreaking scenes he is honored by peers who all come to his table to express admiration and awe, as John Nash is being tested by an envoy from the Nobel Foundation, for the committee is interested to see if in case they would attribute the prize to the scientist he would misbehave and eventually act like a chicken.
Nash is the one who perceives this worry and he acts with grace and humor, proving he possesses Emotional Intelligence and not just…A Beautiful Mind.

[Tom C. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Unlike many other reviewers on here, I actually read Akiva Goldsman's screenplay and not the biography by Sylvia Nasar.

I never liked math in school, but maybe I would have if Goldsman had been my teacher. He manages to show the beauty in mathematics with action like this "The lines on the window emerge, a geometric formation floating in mid air" (page 1) and dialogue like this "...That is the only truth. The math of things, the math of everything, the secrets implied by the world in whispers" (page 7).

The love story between John Nash and his wife Alicia is touching but sometimes corny, e.g. when Alicia says "What if the part of us that knows waking from the dream...(touches his hand) What if it isn't here... (touches his heart) What if it's here?" Yeah, what if? (BTW, there's some stuff in the bio that got left out of the screenplay which, let us say, throws a big wrench into the love story told in the film).

What I liked best about the screenplay is the light/darkness motif, which I guess I missed when viewing the film. The opening image is "A STAINED GLASS WINDOW-CLOSE. Sunlight illuminates a complex pattern of symbols and lines...The light refracting through his glass draws shifting angles of rainbow on the bar before him." The closing images is "He takes her hand, turning his back on them, man and wife heading away together, outside, into the light and gone." In between, Goldsman never misses an opportunity to describe light, darkness, and shadows.

[Abby · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ok where do I start. My mother died in a mental hospital from schizophrenia and for years I struggled with so many questions. A mother and a daughter have such a close bond and when the mother is taken away from the child young it’s so traumatizing. Now as a grown woman with children of my own I am reading more books on the disorder and trying to get a better understanding of the condition. It really is such a sad heartbreaking disease and not only does the person suffer but so does the family.

[Bafayad · Rating 5 out of 5]

عقل جميل A Beautiful Mind
 هو فيلم أمريكي حاز على أربعة جوائز أوسكار
ويحكي قصة أحد العلماء ، الذين فازوا بجائزة نوبل وهو العالم جون ناش.
والذي كان يعاني من مرض نفسي ، يسمى فصام الشخصية
أشتهر البطل بذكائه وعبقريته ، فقام البنتاجون بدعوته لفك أحد شفرات الاتصال الخاصة بالعدو ، واستطاع أن يفك الشفرة ويدهش الجميع.
وفي يوم من الأيام عرض على طلابه ، أحد المسائل الرياضية الصعبة وتحدى طلابه في حلها ، ولكن قامت أحد طالباته وهي أليشيا بحلها ، فيعجب بها وتصبح زوجته .

[Lenie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Captivatingly thought awakening. I watched this on big screen with a friend but can't remember the year. I can feel every words that Russel says to Jennifer. You know I can see clearly what it was in his mind yes Nash, a genius what he can see beyond and trying to open it up. In the meantime, now that it was on letters I just sticked to where I can only grasped.

[Sonja · Rating 3 out of 5]

Amazing movie, wish I had the bandwidth to stick with the book. Had to give up...

[Gandi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overall i love this book

[Ranette · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved the surprises in the book and the hard look his family has to take with him so that he can have help

[Nick Martin · Rating 5 out of 5]

You have no respect for cognitive reverie, you know that?

(12:00)

[Srijan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Started CAUZ I had nothing to do, Wasn't interested at initial point, got those kicks of thrill in the 50%cried at 75% got inspired at the end. Really felt that pain and now I love maths for no reason.

[Nanci Robertson · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was well written by Sylvia Nasar who obviously did volumes of research about her subject, John Nash, the famous Nobel Prize winning mathematician. However, in spite of her attention to detail and her patient descriptions of the personality idiosyncrasies of Mr Nash, I could not endear myself to this main character at all. In fact, reading the book made me glad I never met the guy. I may rent the movie (starring Russell Crowe) to see if I can at least stir up a little empathy for him.

[Travis Hamilton · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was a great example of how a script should be written. I'm taking notes and hope to improve on my next script. So simply written that it makes for a very fluent read. I'll keep this copy for how to write and create better screenplays. I wish a couple of scenes could have been eliminated or cleaned up... but otherwise a great story!

[Trisno Samosir · Rating 4 out of 5]

I recommend this book because after all it's a great story. If you have watched the movie I don't think you would like to read this book anymore since it's slightly different in particular parts. But overall, it's still great story.

[Dave · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting, will likely never forget this book. Too detailed and long. As a friend said, why is Russell Crowe's picture on the cover? I hope they put Joe Mantegna on the cover of my biography.

[Sarsha Geo · Rating 5 out of 5]

There is a movie based on this book.
I can't say....who is normal or abnormal.
Human's brain and life are amazing.
We shouln't judge now or past or future...I was happy or am happy or will be happy.
All is gift from God.

[Dr Sneh Kalgotra · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a beautifully written book not only about a genius mind but also about truly n purely a person can love another. stand by you no matter the circumstances coz u r committed by heart n soul to be with each other through every thick n thin.

[Tami priraharjanti · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a birthday gift from my x-bf,. Not only a birthday gift, it tells u about a gift 'beautiful mind'.

[Cheryl S. · Rating 5 out of 5]

True life is stranger than fiction. This man's story is incredible.

[coki · Rating 5 out of 5]

asli..keren abis. t o p bgt!
analisa..analisa..dan analisa, sampe stres..

[Gratcia Siahaya · Rating 5 out of 5]

BLUM BACA dah nonton film-nya dan JATUH CINTA dengan segala-galanya dalam film itu. Jadi, bukunya PASTI bagus (HARUS BAGUS!)--hehe, obyektifitas kemanakan perginya dirimu?

[Brian · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is really an indepth book. The movie did not do the story justice. Very interesting read, but you better like math.

[Ke · Rating 4 out of 5]

This script is pretty faithful to the film. I liked Goldsman's introduction and the script's multiple references to doing laundry.

[Dina · Rating 4 out of 5]

A wonderfully written book, written to show the good and bad of John Nash. The movie is absolutely nothing like the book.

[Khaled Mohamed · Rating 5 out of 5]

قصة رائعة

[David Rank · Rating 5 out of 5]

The movie was great, but nearly unrecognizable from the truth of this brilliant, troubled man. Beautifully written, always fascinating.