Beautiful Mind: Reaction Paper

In the film A Beautiful Mind, John Nash is introduced as a mathematician attending the prestigious school, Princeton University, as a graduate student with a roommate, Charles. He produces an idea in governing dynamics and is offered an appointment almost anywhere. Him and two of his friends go to Wheeler Enterprises and Nash also works as a teacher at MIT since their office is on the university campus. where Nash serves as a teacher. Nash falls in love with one of his students and they marry. He is then recruited to serve William Parcher, a government worker, to help break codes from Russia about an atomic bomb. He begins to go insane and his wife worries and calls a psychiatric hospital for John be admitted. The doctor diagnoses John with paranoid schizophrenia and they realize that his college roommate and Parcher and the mission is not real either. He is put on medication, but has a relapse later. He stops taking the medicine, but learns to ignore the imaginary people and situations. His life becomes as normal as it possibly can and he eventually earns a Nobel Prize for his original work in economics.

John Nash was extremely intelligent man but let his work take over a lot of his life. I would describe his attitude as cocky as he believed he was much smarter than others and loved to prove it which is shown in the beginning with the board game between him and Hanson. I figured that he was one that knew he was there for the education and not to party like his fellow classmates were doing. He would stay in his room studying and figuring out the hardest math problems and working them on the windows. Figuring out math problems was what made his day.The clues that were the most alarming were when Nash and Charles are sitting on the roof they are chatting on a university building roof and getting to know each other better. Nash and Charles are

While most people diagnosed with schizophrenia rarely overcome the disease, John Nash, the hero of this film, ultimately is able to attain the level of mental reasoning that he previously enjoyed. The touching part of this film, however, is not merely Nash's recovery, but rather the path that finally enabled him to recover. Through the strength of her love, Nash's wife Alicia was able to help him battle the ravaging mental illness.

In the film, “A Beautiful Mind”, Russell Crowe plays the character of John Nash. John Nash is an awardee of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. During his university years, Nash puts extreme pressure upon himself as he tries to publish a work out of his original idea which allows him to develop a new concept of governing dynamics. Some years later, Nash is invited to the Pentagon to crack encrypted enemy telecommunication. Despite his success in this field, Nash believes that he can do greater things as he finds his regular duties at MIT unexciting and beneath his talent. Nash finds himself working under a mysterious supervisor, William Parcher, from the United States Department of Defense. He starts looking for pattern in newspapers and magazines in order to prevent a Soviet plot as he becomes increasingly obsessed about these patterns. Dr. Rosen suggests Alicia, John’s wife, that Nash has paranoid schizophrenia which implies that some individuals from his life were all part of his hallucinations which includes his roommate, Charles, and supervisor, William Parcher. However, John’s pride in his work and his desire to be great, prevent him from seeing the truth as he keeps working for Parcher. Despite facing such obstacles, Nash learns to accept that Parcher and other figures are all part of his hallucinations. I am the kind of person who sets my own personals goals and gets

Our comprehension of human experience can be expanded through the viewing of a world outside our own. In A Beautiful Mind, directed by Ron Howard, a differing world engulfed with mental illness has been depicted through the life of mathematician John Nash and the subsequent human experience of the relationships built around it and the struggles associated. It is the responders’ observation of a differing world that leads to a greater understanding of the mental illness and the impact of relationships while allowing me to gain a greater compassion for those who suffer from mental illness.

In my opinion this film allowed me to learn about the complexities of having a disorder. This film made much more aware of certain

John Nash portray a man that develops Schizophrenia throughout the movie. Schizophrenia according to, Licht, Hull, and Ballantyne 2017 is a “psychological disorder that includes delusion, hallucination, disorganized speech, and abnormal speech”. According to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders[DSM-5] Fifth Edition,2014, John Nash

Nash's first hallucination is in his college dorm room when his drunken roommate Charles appears. Charles acts as a mentor to Nash by making him realize that work and studies are not the only things life has to offer. Throughout his life, Nash has been a "lone wolf", and Charles

In the film A Beautiful Mind, the protagonist John Nash suffers with the mental condition of paranoid schizophrenia. The film examines Nash’s healthy years while attending Princeton University and starting his family, then depicts the deterioration of his cognitive abilities. Through Nash’s character, the film was successful in illustrating the typical symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia. Negative symptoms like social isolation and mistrust were presented accurately, as were positive symptoms like hallucinations and delusions. The progression of Nash’s paranoid schizophrenia was thoroughly depicted through displays such as his increasing fear of persecution. This fear progressed with his illness, producing significant impairment and distress. Nash displayed coping strategies when his overwhelming symptoms caused him to withdraw from the social contact. Over time,

John Nash was a young man who went to Princeton and excelled in his studies. He was very bright and was a stellar student, however, he wasn’t the most social. John found it very difficult to interact with other people and often tried avoiding interactions with others. The only person he was able to talk to was his roommate Charles. And it turns out, spoiler warning, that he was never real to begin with. Putting that little fact aside, he eventually gets invited to the pentagon to decipher encrypted enemy telecommunication. After doing wonderfully on that, he gets a new job from a secretive superior who goes by the name William Parcher. William wants him to help stop the Soviets. John accepts, but soon becomes overly obsessed with it and starts seeing patterns that aren’t really there to begin with.

Hypothesis: Did Ron Howard portray John Nash's mental illness and life as it really was? John Nash is the main character in the film “A Beautiful Mind” which is a film directed by Ron Howard in 2001. This film was made to retell the story of John Nash this man and was made to be as accurate as possible, to help the audience understand the character's perspective. Films reviews and articles can determine whether they are as accurate as they are put out to be.

The movie, "A Beautiful Mind", John Nash, who is played by Russell Crowe, is a true story about a mathematician whose life is horrific because of his disease, schizophrenia. He was an egocentric man who studied Mathematics in Princeton University. During the whole time that he studied in Princeton, he was trying to come up with his own original idea. He felt that by only

The film I will be analyzing in this paper is A Beautiful Mind, a biographical look at the life of John Nash during a period of his life where he struggles with mental illness. The movie itself is based on the novel of the same name by Sylvia Nasar. Although John Nash is a real person who 's life is documented in his biography, I will be focusing my diagnosis solely on the events depicted in the film. John Nash is a gifted mathematician who has trouble with being social and forming close relationships. His mental state starts to slowly deteriorate beginning during his time studying at Princeton University on a scholarship. He falls into a dangerous world of spies and secret codes that exists only in his mind. Convinced his delusions are real, John 's life quickly spirals out of control. He is eventually given the diagnosis of schizophrenia and works to both regain his status in the academic world and deal with his illness. I personally agree with the in film diagnosis and believe John Nash was suffering from schizophrenia.

Alicia Nash, which is John’s wife, complaints that John is involved in “non fictional” activities such as cutting out articles, and creating a mirage to try to solve the pieces of the puzzle. John is very alert, watchful, and suspicious of everything and everyone. John keeps secrets from his wife and chooses not to tell her about his activities. He talks to himself and can be heard talking to imaginary people. His job is in jeopardy because he failed to complete daily task.

The movie takes place in 1947, the main character John Nash arrives at Princeton. Him and Martin Hansen are both recipients of an award. The prestigious award was a Carnegie Scholarship for math. At the opening reception, he meets a group of math and science graduate students, there names were Richard Sol, Ainsley, and Bender. He even meets his roommate Charles Herman, and he’s a literature student.