#christopherplummerrip

This is not my bday art for him, this is just in honor of poor man Christopher leaving us today 😔

I'm sad to hear of Christopher Plummer's passing today. One of his roles had a huge impact on my life, in "A Beautiful Mind" from 2001. I saw it when it came out, I was in my 20s at the time and pretty ill from multiple issues related to schizophrenia, so the film meant a lot to me. It's about the mathematician John Nash (Russell Crowe) who also suffered from schizophrenia at a time when the only real "help" was thorazine or ECT. Plummer played his psychiatrist Dr Rosen, who, in spite of the barbaric treatments of the time seemed a compassionate doctor and genuinely sympathetic. The film is a dramatization of John and Alicia Nash (who both died in 2015 I think, together in a taxi car crash) and while it wasn't completely faithful historically, managed (at the time) to humanize people with schizophrenia in a way that the viewer could feel how life-altering this illness is. My favorite line was from Dr Rosen talking to Alicia Nash regarding John's illness and schizophrenia in general: "Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse: had never been. What kind of hell would that be?" Rest in peace. #christopherplummerRIP #abeautifulmind #schizophrenia #christopherplummer https://www.instagram.com/p/CK7klw4pma6/?igshid=qftojzft6sab