Film Analysis : A Beautiful Mind

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.

Throughout the duration of the film, John Nash appears to have a series of positive symptoms. According to King, positive symptoms “reflect something added above and beyond normal behavior”. This generalization is clearly evident in A Beautiful Mind. The most visible symptom that can be seen in John Nash’s behavior is his psychomotor movements. King states that “a person with schizophrenia may show unusual mannerisms, body movements, and facial expressions”. In the film, John Nash demonstrates these movements through

In the film " A Beautiful Mind" John Nash experiences a few different positive symptoms. The first of these positive symptoms are seen through the hallucinations John has of having a room -mate while at Princeton. This room- mate continues to stay "in contact" with John through out his adult life and later this room- mate's niece enters Johns mind as another coinciding hallucination. Nash's other hallucination is Ed Harris, who plays a government agent that seeks out Nash's intelligence in the field of code- breaking.

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

Know I am going to compare what I believe the process of the schizophrenia with John Nash is during the process of this movie. A Beautiful Mind is an inspiring story about triumph over schizophrenia, among the most devastating and disabling of all mental disorders. A Beautiful Mind succeeds in realistically describing the disturbed thinking, emotion, perception, and behavior

A Beautiful Mind, directed by Ron Howard. The main character John Nash played by Russell Crowe was a genius Mathematician who came up with what he called his “Original Idea” which lead him to become very successful and well around man. His “Original Idea” slowly become a nightmare to Professor Nash, he began to have delusions, and hallucination. He created a world where he thought he was a solider working for Parcher played by Ed Harris, that was helping he run away from and fight again the Russians. Throughout the film John Nash plays the role of a genius Math Professor that develops Schizophrenia, delusion and hallucinations.

A Beautiful Mind illustrates many of the topics relating to psychological disorders. The main character of the film, John Nash, is a brilliant mathematician who suffers from symptoms of Schizophrenia. His symptoms include paranoid delusions, grandiosity, and disturbed perceptions. The disease disrupts his social relationships, his studies, and his work. The more stressful his life becomes the more his mind is not able to distinguish between reality and fantasy.

Homework #4 A Beautiful Mind tells the story of John Nash who developed schizophrenia while he was attending college. The movie documents Nash’s life during the years he developed schizophrenia. It also provides insight to his symptoms and the treatments he used to cope with them. A Beautiful Mind shows how Nash, despite his disorder, was able to live a close to normal life and be successful.

Throughout the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, directed by Ronald William Howard, the main character John Nash is conveyed as a paranoid schizophrenic. Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that makes the subject's sense of reality abnormal or impaired; paranoid schizophrenia is a subtype of schizophrenia in which the patient has delusions (false beliefs) that a person or some individuals are plotting against them or members of their family. (MedicalNewsToday) John Nash mannerisms abnormal, so much so that he would draw into himself in a room full of people, or sometimes, even stutter.

Ron Howard’s A Beautiful Mind is a biographical drama that portrays the life story of John Forbes Nash, Jr. Nash begins his journey at Princeton University in 1947 as a mathematical prodigy. Although Nash is a mathematical genius, he harbors rather odd personality traits. Nash is considered, by his peers, to be socially-inept, awkward and a bit arrogant. However, this does not stop him from becoming close friends with his roommate Charles, a literature student. Nash’s main objective while at Princeton is to discover a revolutionary equation in mathematics through his fascination with geometrical patterns. His success in this accomplishment will eventually lead him to win the Nobel Peace Prize. After Nash graduates from Princeton he accepts

“A Beautiful mind” is a story based on the life of John Forbes Nash, who is a famous mathematician. Unfortunately, he is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia that majorly affects his personal and social life. Schizophrenia is a psychological disorder in which the patient’s ability to function is impaired by severely distorted beliefs, perceptions, and thought processes (Hockenbury, 2010).

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 movie Beautiful Mind is about Dr. John Nash who is a mathematical genius and a natural code breaker, at least in his own mind. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia which is a psychological disorder. According to Baird (2011), paranoid schizophrenia is when a person has “delusions of grandeur and persecution often accompanied by hallucinations” (p. 273). The person has a split from real life circumstances, where their new reality becomes actual fact to them.

“A Beautiful Mind” is a very unpredictable film. After seeing John Nash in the mental hospital undergoing all of the required

Beautiful mind was about a man John Nash who developed Schizophrenia over the life span of his adult life. The movie started out about the time John Nash went to college. Nash was a mathematical genius going to school at Princeton University. Nash struggled to contribute to serve as his legacy to the world of mathematics. During John Nash college experience, he starts to show signs of obsession about his project he is working on. Nash was awkward when it came to time to socialize with his group of friend and women. Nash was very blunt and turned everything into a mathematical equation. While at Princeton after being told his plan for his mathematical equation just was not going to get him a spot. Nash went back to his dorm running his head into the glass. This is when Charles Nash’s roommate intervenes and tries to calm Nash down. Nash then again became obsessive over his project but it ended up working to his advantage and ended up making a mathematical breakthrough in history. Nash ended up graduation Princeton. He gets a job at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a teacher and research position. During His time as a teacher and researcher he has went to the Pentagon and helped the military crack a code. This is where he met “big brother.” Big Brother offered Nash a job to break codes to help find the placement of the lost bomb that the Russians are trying to hide. This is a dangerous job and Nash was the perfect person for the job because he had no family