Comments on: A Brilliant Madness: John Nash

By: James Kirk

James Kirk — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:08:00 +0000

power that can tip over the edge if not controled from within

By: wt1776

wt1776 — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:11:00 +0000

Powerful documentary of a great man.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:29:00 +0000

Fantastic doco

By: John Krisfalusci

John Krisfalusci — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:24:00 +0000

wow hes like me, i studied advanced mathematics in middle school and i entered the us navy as a nuclear reactor operator electronics technician when i was 18, and i too went through delusions and fear that the government was spying on me; and i too, just recently, at age 29 realizing how beautiful life is after quitting meds cold turkey. it is a wonderful thing, and i still refuse to get a job because of w2s. ^_^

By: Wesker

Wesker — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 02:16:00 +0000

You clearly don’t understand art or self expression. Who are you to say that entertainers who are celebrated for their talents, shouldn’t be put on a podium by those who appreciate them? Just because you don’t think they’re contributing anything useful, or understand them doesn’t make your opinion somehow valid. That’s a really arrogant narcissistic viewpoint.

By: Sam rutherford

Sam rutherford — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 01:56:00 +0000

Well aside from the fact your sentence makes no sense, you could just as well reverse a subjective argument like yours. I imagine most people would dislike this particular mathematician because he’s been a bit of a*shole … if we’re brutally honest.

By: Aldo Solari

Aldo Solari — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 01:53:00 +0000

An exceptionally good documentary. We are lucky there are docu producers who know how to grasp the souls and works of others. Thank you.

By: Aldo Solari

Aldo Solari — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 01:07:00 +0000

It is amazing (and it happens, frequently) that people dislike brilliant mathematicians (and theorists, in general) while functional analphabets who appear on the TV screen are cheered up by the hundreds of millions …

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 02:55:00 +0000

No thats not the case lol…But yes those that are they want you to listen its just at times the things that you actually make decisions on in life you have a choice right. If those choices are good for you then you have positive things that occur right. If the choices that you make are bad then negatives happen. Sometimes situations or circumstances that are not in your control can happen and if you have the strength then its more easy for you to deal with. Everyone needs help some point in time. So if you repeat those negative choices you will get them same things and sometimes that can happen with those around you that talk to you about their problems so you cannot allow yourself to get sucked in to that because its something that one can make a choice to change…So if I need to seperate myself from those stressful things in order for me to stay in a positive light and I have to make good choices myself that benefit my health was that alot again lol….okay I’ll stop here….Peace

By: Azilda

Azilda — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:20:00 +0000

“I am not thinking anything crazy but there are different possibilities. I don’t know what the future holds exactly, even if it’s not such a long future…(pause) for me. Of course the future in general is presumably long, unless things really got bad, unless a miracle happens”
Those are the last words that were chosen for this film, they are very profound and calculated on his part, we can feel the hesitation in the pause, the perception that lives inside of him, a dialogue he has learned to keep quiet to the outside.
And then he puts the dot on his ” i ” board, right in the center.
az

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:21:00 +0000

“…so I believed them.”
That IS a hell of a revealing statement, isn’t it?
The noble power of intuition, but an evil twin, in truth, dressed up in the muse’s filched finery, and so presumed to be pristine, though she strums but a cacophony on her gutted harp, that yet sounds through the mind of the man smitten as the purest song of heaven.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 05:49:00 +0000

I was rereading your post, there’s so much information in it, lol.

One thing I wanted to ask: Are those making demands on your time and emotions about their problems mostly female, I hope? If that’s the case, then probably they mostly just want you to listen, lol. If you have to disengage yourself a bit emotionally, while still being there for them, try not to feel bad about that. You’re not being selfish at all, doing what you have to do to take care of yourself. You’ve got kids, and staying healthy for them is your first priority, right? Everything and everyone else be damned, if it comes down to it!

(I’m sure you already know these things, lol. Just saying…)

By: Azilda

Azilda — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 05:19:00 +0000

After following this conversation between you three, i decided to give this doc a viewing. I found it to be amazing. I too had seen the Hollywood movie but this is so much better with the addition of interviews of the real Nash.
I like when he says something in the line of “those thoughts came the same way math solutions came, so i believed them”.
So many attrocities were performed on people who were considered insane in those days (and perhaps it is still happening in different ways), i remember hearing a lot about the asylum St Jean de Dieu in Montreal, lobotomies was their specialty.
Despite the wide abuse, Muniz received a nobel prize for his work on lobotomies in 1949.
az

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 04:30:00 +0000

Eat right, sleep right, get exercise for the stress, and, above all, be willing to let Time work its magic, and almost all wounds can be healed, though maybe not without scar-tissue…but which has it’s uses, too, right? Without elaborating too much, I will say that what precipitated a HUGE downward spiral for me, which took several years to really recover from, was a very unexpected death in my family, literally two hours after the first formal family-portrait we’d had made in years… It devastated all of us, the way it occurred, but…at that time in my life (1991), I really was in terrible shape in so many ways, and I think it affected me far worse than any of the rest of us. Not too long after, I ended up in the hospital, cutting myself up with razors (to relieve the pain, believe it or not…), and starving myself to the point of collapse…

Did you ever see that film ‘Girl, Interrupted’ ? Well…this GUY was a lot like some of those GIRLS for a while, I’m afraid…(lol)

But seriously…One thing that amazes me about Nash is: Like you said, he says his symptoms haven’t really disappeared, but he simply chooses to ignore them and live rationally anyway. And I don’t see how he pulls that off, with his particular diagnosis, which is one of the worst you can get. It seems a little akin to a deaf person “choosing” to be immersed in a world of sound, and so must be mentally exhausting, having to construct a reality constantly intruded on by threats of unreality; like choosing to hear things you cannot actually hear, and constantly needing to develop rational meaning out of them. But…maybe it’s not a 24/7 thing, I don’t know.

Does that make any sense? Whatever the case, it’s a very powerful brain and will he has…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:09:00 +0000

@Pysmythe I just watched this one and I liked it thanks…. I remember watching the movie based on his life. This gets into more detail like his first marriage and older child. His wife loved him dearly I was happy to hear they got remarried again. But I like the ending how he personally says he recovered schizophrenia he says he just willed it and decided to think rationally that is touching. I don’t suffer from this disease you already know because I shared with you about my bouts with depression/anxiety which we have in common. I just don’t want to be medicated anymore so I just quit taking meds that was hard as hell to do because of the withdrawls how it makes you feel.

But as I have gotten older and understand of hows and whys I feel this way and how I can deal each day I had to look back some years. I think it started with me when I was 15 years old. Things that were happening in my life with family and deaths that occured just alot of compacted events stacked on top of one another that is like too much pressure and i start breaking down you know. So its more of like my environment and what is happening around me that I like feel like the weight of the world is on my shoulders type of feeling. I don’t have to allow these things right so I have learned that over time. And I also have learned that I choose situations choose my environment sometimes in order for me to stay sane I have to seperate myself from negative people and situations no matter what like choosing the right relationships choosing positive friendships even staying away from family members that cause me stress thats a Big one For Me Lol… I have this bad thing about thinking I can fix everything like if someone has a problem like I can help and with situations that I have no control over and stuff I have that real bad I have to catch myself. Like I have always been responsible person but I Am Not Resposible For Anyone But Myself and My Children. People can come and talk to me about Their Problems like certain friends and Family and Their Issues for comfort and support I like want to help them but really Their Problems or Constant Problems they are having I can’t fix and that stresses me out…It sounds crazy right… But anyway I have to stop that and think about myself but I just don’t want to be selfish if that makes sense. So thats why I should choose friends choose to be around family choose to have relationships that are positive because I really want to be positive as well…In a way maybe you might act this way too or have some of the same feelings you are a good guy I like Ya..Gawsh Was That a Load?? lol okay anyway Pysmythe I”ll check back with ya later….Peace