A Beautiful Mind

[blpurdom]

Spoiler 
space 
if 
you 
haven't 
seen 
this 
wonderful 
film 
and 
don't 
want 
to 
know 
some 
pretty 
important 
details.
(And also some stuff about "The Sixth Sense," so if you haven't seen 
that either...yeah right!)

Oddly enough, I finally remembered to post something about this 
because my husband and I took the kids to see the Jimmy Neutron 
movie yesterday.  (Makes no sense, but a lot of fun anyway.)  The 
last "grownup" movie we saw was "A Beautiful Mind," which was 
superb.  Best of all, I think, was the writing (not that the acting 
and direction, etc. weren't wonderful, too.)  Although it admittedly 
departed greatly from John Nash's actual life (the disclaimer now 
says the film is "based" on his life) it conveyed very vividly how 
real some hallucinations can seem to a person suffering from 
paranoid schnizophrenia.  

When it was over, I immediately wanted to see it again.  It felt 
similar to the first time I saw "The Sixth Sense."  I wanted to see 
it again to look for the subtle clues that I missed the first time 
that when the main character was seeing a ghost/hallucination, no 
one else was seeing it.

Of course, that wouldn't have told me what was REALLY happening 
during the exciting car chase/shoot'em up sequence which we 
eventually find out was all in his head!

The second thought I had after the film was over (after "I want to 
see it again!") was that the concept would work beautifully for a 
Harry Potter fanfiction.  You could take your pick of characters to 
put at the center of the story (Harry, Sirius, Snape, Hermione etc.) 
and institutionalize them; their doctors would be trying to convince 
them that magic is all in their heads and giving them perfectly 
plausible explanations for events in their lives which they believe 
to have taken place in the wizarding world....And in the end, the 
reader would be left wondering, WAS it all just in his head?

Has anyone done this?

--Barb

Chapter 14 of the Last Temptation is up....Are you tempted?
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