Recently, I took out the DVD of the movie "The Beautiful Mind" and watched half of the movie. I also watched the entire series of John Nash's life story in the PBS documentary entitled "A Brilliant Madness". Although both the film and the documentary celebrated Nash as a brilliant mathematician and a mental illness patient, there is still a part of Nash that was silent. That is, those who suffered through his behaviors, his mental illness, and his ill treatments throughout his life. And this is what I mean by "two sides of a person". My question is "why we glorify a person's intellectual genius and ignore, for the most part, those who suffer through the person's acts?"
Fortunately, I found a paper by Kim (2005) in the journal Pastoral Psychology. The paper title is "John Nash: The Sufferings of Those who Loved Him". The paper talked about many people in Nash's life that have tremendously suffered before, during, and after his mental illness. After all, there are always two sides of a person.
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