The commercial film A Beautiful Mind (2001) and the documentary A brilliant madness (2002) had many differences. The movie focus more on how Nash deal with schizophrenia, the documentary goes more into details in his personal life and how his relationship affected his life. In the documentary I’ve learned that Nash did not want his son, so the mother of his child had no chose to put his son in a foster home. The movie does not do into details about Alicia’s Hispanic roots, they made it seem like she was an ordinary American girl. The documentary states that Alicia is from El Salvador. Another thing that was different between the two was the type of treatment he was getting. His treatment in the documentary he was explaining how he treated,
