A Beautiful Mind

I’ve never loved this movie. Upon it’s original release I liked it fine, but I simply could not understand why it won Best Picture over The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. It was partially pique on my part, but revisiting this film for the first time in over ten years, I was surprised at how muted my reaction to the film was far removed from that “controversy”. From the beginning of Ron Howard’s dramatization of John Nash’s life, I felt that the treatment of Nash’s mental illn...