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"There is the person with the disease
and there is the normal person's surro-
aate but that doesn't allow us to
empathize with the mentally ill person.
I wanted to close the gap."
It's a kind of cinematic tikkun olam
Goldsman learned from his parents, Tev
and Mira, who viewed their ground-
breaking work as a way of carrying out
the Jewish value of repairing the world.
He believes Mira's childhood experi-
ence of fleeing Nazi-occupied Lithuania
helped her to empathize with her
hen Akiva Goldsman was
growing up in Brooklyn
Heights, his playmates
were the mentally ill chil-
dren who lived in the group home his
parents had founded in their rambling
old brownstone.
The children suffered from autism
and schizophrenia — weeping and rag-
ing were de riaueur — but Goldsman,
the only child of Jewish
psychotherapists, regard-
ed them as "just my
peers.''
The 39-year-old
screenwriter drew upon
those memories to write
A Beautifil Mind, the
unsettling portrait of a
schizophrenic mathe-
matician that won him
the Golden Globe
Award late last month.
It made him an Oscar
contender when the
nominations were
announced on Tuesday.
"The truth is I didn't
know you weren't sup-
posed to dream when
you were awake,"
Goldsman confides of
his early childhood.
"I didn't know that at
a certain age everybody
was supposed to have
begun talking. The chil-
dren gave me a keen
Akiva Goldsman accepts his Golden Globe Award
vision of the very thin
for
7ABeautiful Mind"
line between what's real
and what isn't."
patients, noting that "what my mother
saw rivaled the monsters some of these
Tikkun Olam
children saw with their eyes closed."
Goldsman crisscrosses that line in Mind,
Inspired by the high drama of the
group home, Goldsman aspired to
based on Sylvia Nasar's biography of
become a writer around the time of his
Princeton mathematician John Forbes
Reform bar mitzvah. He wrote every
Nash Jr. (Russell Crowe).
day for years, but received only boxes
Speaking in a rapid-fire staccato,
full of rejection letters.
Goldsman says his goal was to depict
Meanwhile, in his early teens, he dis-
schizophrenia from the inside out." He
tanced himself from the disturbed chil-
also hoped to counter films that depict
dren who "seemed to get more of my
mental patients as the "villains du jour."
parents than I did."
"With the rarest of exceptions, one
That changed when at age 16 he "fell
finds oneself going to movies [about
mental illness] and having an experience in love" with an autistic boy he met at
his folks' summer camp. He decided to
that is not unlike going to the zoo," he
enter the family business, and eventually
adds.