A BEAUTIFUL MIND
The movie “A Beautiful Mind”
is a screen adaptation
to the biographical drama about Nobel Prize-winning mathematican John Nash. The biography
of John Nash, written by Sylvia Nasar, was published in 1999 and the movie was released in 2001.
The movie is based
on a true story.
This movie was Director Ron Howard’s latest movie and received four Oscars.
PLOT:
John has problems to integrate in society because he thinks
that his surroundings isn’t interested in what he is doing and so he says that he isn’t very interested what the others around
him do. He attends Princeton university, where he wants to come up with a grand contribution to science. His roommate Charles is completly contrast to John. He is open-minded and self-confident and helps John to get integrated in society. John doesn’t attend the lectures because of his possession to the idea to find a genius idea, which will bring him lots of recognition. It’s not easy for him to manage his life at Princeton. After many struggles, John finally finds his genius idea while sitting in a bar.
After the conclusion of Nash’s studies as a student at Princeton he works for a United States Department of Defense facility to crack some coded messages of an enemy. A man called William Parcher gives him tasks and the coded messages. He tries to find these messages out of newspaper articles. Nash gets obsessed with his code-breaking work. At this time he gets to know Alicia Larde one of his students, whom he really likes. Finally he marries her and she gets pregnant. After some time John starts acting in a very strange way because he suspects Soviet spies to follow him. Because of his strange behaviour he finally ends up in a psychiatric facility and the viewer learns that John sufferes from schizophrenia.
Nash is also confrontated with the fact that there aren’t any spies who want to kill him and that he doesn’t work for a United States Department of Defense facility. He has just imagined William Parcher and all the tasks William has given to him were just imagination. And even his best friend Charles and his niece don’t exist in reality.
He is diagnosted to suffer from paranoid schizophrenia and he has to get over this obstacle with the help of his wife. She encourages him by saying that having a beautiful heart is as important as having a beautiful mind.
Schizophrenia is a disease of the brain and one of the most disabling and emotionally crushing illnesses we know.
John has to take antipsychotic medication. These drugs create terrible side-effects on his personality and test his marriage. The medication also effects his intellect badly and so John secretly stops taking his medication. He starts hallucinating again. Alicia soon recognizes that he again sufferes from schizophrenia and gets very scared because of his behaviour.
John refuses to take the antipsychotic drugs again and so he and his wife slowly learn to manage their life with his mental illness. John begins to try to ignore his hallucinations and to integrate in society.
The rest of the movie shows how John grows older while working on his studies in the library of Princeton University. He still suffers from hallucinations and sometimes he has to chek if new people he meets are real, but he develops the ability to ignore his psychosis.
Eventually, John starts to teach at the university again and is honored by his fellow professors for his lifetime achievement. At the end John receives the Nobel Prize for Economics for his revolutionary work on game theory.
Main Themes
The gab between genius and insanity.
John Nash is that intelligent that he becomes psychologically ill by the time. He just concentrates on his mathematic theories and he doesn’t think about the social obligation he has. Because of this on the one hand he is a genius but on the other hand he isn’t able to communicate.
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