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After watching the movie A Beautiful Mind with Russell Crowe as John Nash, my views on mental illness have greatly changed. I have learned a good deal about mental illness after watching this movie. When I think of someone with a mental illness I usually think of some guy in a mental institution in a straight jacket. This movie showed me that mentally ill people can still lead very productive and happy lives.
This story demonstrate the strength of the human spirit because although the character sufferd from obstructive personality problems, and eventually mental illness, he was still an inspired thinker who won a Nobel Prize, and he still had a loving wife and son. This made me think that there is still hope for those people who are suffering from mental illness to overcome their handicaps and triumph in the end. We shouldn't judge these people instead we should empathize with them.
A Beautiful Mind is a movie with a purpose. Although entertainment is certainly......

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