10 Amazing Movies about Giftedness

A few different moulds are stamped with movie heroes. The brawny figure in action, whose muscles cover their weak centre, is there. Or the adolescent whose path to self-exploration starts the minute she walks outside the door. Or the ordinary joe, whose inner shadow masks its bland exterior. The genius, the beauty of which is expressed in flying chalk, concentrated gestures, and nuanced personality characteristics. The genius of filmmaking comes in all forms. There are little girls who, with their brains, can shift objects, or janitors who after work do mental arithmetic.

Posted On November 2nd, 2020

The Gifted

As well as solving complex square roots in her head, seven-year-old Mary can debate the Syrian crisis. Although Frank Adler acknowledges that his young niece is unique, he prioritises her having a happy life overusing her brilliant mind to solve math during the day. But the course of Mary's life isn't up to Frank anymore after Mary debuts her brilliance in her first-grade classroom. Mary's grandma wants custody of her granddaughter in order to preserve the math genius's family legacy.

The Beautiful Mind

Viewers see the very true mental health challenges some very gifted people are going through in this biopic about John Nash. This film tells the tale of Nash when he finds a very fascinating theorem in mathematics, and also works for the U.S. Department of Defense to avoid a Soviet conspiracy, but fails as he becomes more delusional and obsessed because of his role in the Soviet mission. While Nash is a genius and able to figure out concerns that others can only do with the aid of machines, it is found that he suffers from schizophrenia and for years has been hallucinating, building an imagined community with friends. In his marriage, his behavioural issues create problems, but ultimately, using his considerable genius, Nash is able to outsmart and control his hallucinations and goes on to receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his work on game theory.

The Imitation Game

Alan Turing and his squad of British mathematicians set off, with stunning mental prowess, to crack a code widely believed to be unbreakable. Their mission, carried out in a quaint town in England, helps the Allies win the battle. Later on, the modern-day computer would become Turing's "Turing Machine". But while the successes of Turing changed existence as we know it, the U.K. Owing to his sexuality, they treated him poorly.

Theory of Everything

Stephen Hawking, an undergraduate at Cambridge University and a future scientist fall in love with fellow college student Jane Wilde in the 1960s. Hawking finds that he has motor neuron disorder aged 21. Despite this, and with Jane by his side, he starts, according to his psychiatrist, an ambitious study of time, of which he has precious little left. In the fields of medicine and technology, he and Jane defy bad odds and break new ground, doing more than any of them could expect to think.

Limitless

Threatening unemployment and the rejection of his girlfriend, writer Eddie Morra is convinced he has no future. That all improve when he is given a prescription by an old friend that creates better mental acuity. Eddie climbs to the top of the finance market and catches the eye of a magnate who plans to use him to make a fortune. Stoked on the untested chemical. Yet awful side effects and a declining supply are threatening Eddie's house of cards to crash.

Queen of Katwe

For 10-year-old Phiona and her family, living in the slum of Katwe in Kampala, Uganda, is a relentless challenge. When she encounters Robert Katende, a missionary who teaches children how to play chess, her life transforms one day. Phiona is obsessed with the game and, under Katende 's direction, quickly becomes a top player. Her participation in local events and competitions opens the door to a promising future and a golden opportunity to avoid a life in hardship.

Fresh

In Brooklyn, New York, Fresh is a 12-year-old heroin addict who finds himself caught in a web of crime, violence and racial tension. Fresh calls on the skills he learned to play chess with his drunken father and speed-chess champion Sam as his heroin-addict sister Nichole begins sleeping with local drug lord Esteban and devises a complicated scheme that will free himself and his sister.

A Brilliant Young Mind

An adolescent math prodigy, trying to establish relations with others, establishes a budding friendship with a young girl while participating at the International Mathematics Olympiad.

Magnus

Meet 25-year-old Magnus Carlsen, a prodigy from Norway who's been rocking the world of chess since he was 10. Hailed as the 'Mozart' of chess, in this intriguing documentary, Magnus talks of the energy that rules his chess movements. Unlike Bobby Fischer, shrouded in anonymity as a chess prodigy, Magnus comes across as, well, average. He's still posing! Magnus's skyrocketing career, and his playful, engaging attitude, will captivate you.

Amadeus

Antonio Salieri, the composer, had the great misfortune of making a career like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the same time. By sinking into jealous paranoia, here is how. Salieri works on his envy of Mozart's musical gift in this Academy Award-winning thriller and puts into motion a plan that would have enormous repercussions for both composers.