I paid money to see "'a beautiful mind' is a terrible thing " Russell Crow. Very disturbing. If you like to walk out of the theater queasy and paranoid @ the same time this is the movie for you. It is my belief that it is a statement on how this society has decided it can and will medicate its problems away. Don't you worry Mr. Cripple society has decided for you so alls you have to do is sit BAC and enjoy the ride. Got a problem? Here take some of these . I don't have anything against R. Howard personally, but I certainly would like to know who decided our "hero" should be hetro... just so we can take the box office by storm. I have this image of a bunch of hypocritical freaks sitting around an expensive table tossing around ideas like: "Gee, biff, can't we take the easy way out?"  and the ever popular  "I just don't think our audience is ready for your ideas." And yet there is always the itch somewhere BAC there  if this guy had been medicated from the time he was say 4 years old  would he have created? Would he have been @ all? I gave it a six because IT made me want to dash out and read the book.