A Beautiful Mind

The movie Beautiful Mind is a very touching movie. It is about a Math genius named John Nash. While Nash attended Princeton, he became very devoted to his work to come up with an original theory. It took him a while to come up with this theory but he did it. I was astonished at Nash’s work especially the part where he wrote a bunch of mathematical numbers on the library window. He said one part of the window illustrates pigeons fighting over bread crumbs, another of which showed a woman chasing a man who stole her purse and one other that displays touch football. It is pretty amazing that he can come up with these ideas by designing it in a mathematical way. Also, during his stay at Princeton he roomed with a guy named Charles. Charles had become his closest friend throughout the years since he was very anti-social for the most part. But little did Nash know that Charles was a part of his imagination along with Charles’s niece Marcee. Nash also imagined another person named Parcher. He believed that Parcher was a detective that worked with the government. So Nash worked as a spy for them. In Nash’s office at MIT you would find the office filled with newspaper cut outs all over the walls. Along with that, he sent the discoveries he has made from the newspapers to the government. Nash started to become very paranoid everywhere he went. He believed that the Russians were out to get him. However, when the so-called “Russians” caught him, they then took him to a hospital. When he went to the hospital we discovered that the “Russians” worked at the hospital and one of them is a psychologist. The psychologist informed us with the fact that Nash was diagnosed with schizophrenia, a paranoia disorder. The psychologist then told Nash’s wife, Alicia (Nash’s former student at MIT) about his disorder but it was at first hard for Alicia to believe. The time that she has known Nash, Nash has always talked about Charles however, she then realized that she had never met this guy.
Alicia has stuck by Nash’s side through thick and thin. There was a time where Nash almost drowned his son in the bathtub, when Alicia asked him why he left her son alone in the bathroom; Nash told her that Charles was watching him. The reason why Nash performed this act is because he had been off his medications, which means that his delusions were able to come back to him. Alicia then had enough with Nash’s behavior but for the sake of her staying, Nash promised to work with Alicia and try to ignore these imaginative people. As the years passed, Nash received the Noble Prize for his Game Theory. There were some who were afraid to let him attend the event because who knows if his delusions were to interrupt him. However it was amazing watching him deliver his speech in a very sharp manner. Dr. John Nash is a very inspirational man. Although he had dealt with a lot of difficulties throughout his life because of schizophrenia, he was still able to come up with theories that people now use for economics, politics, accounting etc. This man truly has a beautiful mind.