Posted by sid on January 8, 2002, at 20:05:47
In reply to DONT READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN ABM YET, posted by Noa on January 8, 2002, at 18:20:20
> Bob, I had a bit of a problem with that part too--he chooses not to go back in hospital, and had been off meds, totally tormented by his demons, and then somehow, through the love of his wife, he tames his demons, although, as you said, at the end, he refers to taking newer antipsychotics. Like you, I wondered about the intervening years--had he been off meds until the newer meds appeared on the scene? Was he able to tame his demons through the "power of love"? Or were they tormenting him until he started the newer meds?
I don't know if it was the power of love, or the power of his rational mind... In reality he did get a divorce from his first wife, so that part is romanced, and yes, rather unrealistic. I don't remember the details from the book (read it with major depression, hence don't remember much of it!).
> Another inconsistency that had that effect was the variable make-up work. Nash's make up artist was quite good--I believed the aging process. But Alicia's make up was not always so good.I noticed that! It was awful at his Nobel Prize speech! I barely recognized her. And indeed, prios to that, she pretty much looked in her 30's.
> And, I really was pulled into the delusional system. I thought that part was very well done! I was totally taken. I thought that, while some aspects of it were his paranoia, etc., that his paranoia was somehow a result of some of these events being real, and that the nature of the business he was in made it plausible that he would be involved in some cloak-and-dagger work, and that kind of work could easily induce paranoia, or at least trigger it in a susceptible person, and that we were seeing it develop, rather than seeing it already full blown.Me too ! That was very well done indeed.
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