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professor from Princeton who went on to make some great theories and win the Nobel prize.
The centerpiece of the story is the fact that John Nash suffers from schizopherinia a debilitating
condition for the most people which leaves them helpless. It is amazing that Nash has been able
Nash was in college trying to complete an orginal idea that his class mates wouldnt even
think about. Nash felt that class wasnt any use to him, since he was a mathmatician. He would
hang out with the same group of friends while trying to complete his work. He would talk to his
roomate Charles about everything, while his roomate would try to influence him to try new
He eventually graduates Princetion and is presented with a job at Wheeler, on the
campus of MIT. He was teaching and doing small jobs for the government, but when hes called
in to break a russian code, John Nash is swept away into the world of international intrigue and
. . .
Everthing seemes to be going fine For John, He has a girlfriend and his job is stable, but
one day, everything falls apart. After a while the medication somewhat worked, by this time they had a child. I picked this movie because he showed how an
intelligent man had a disease and was able to get through his life, even though he had his bad
moments. The way they
made him age in the movie was a great job. After he
realized that he soon put everything together and his life seemed to get better for him.
At the end of the movie John Nash had become very old but still respected, because he
won the Nobel Price. His wife at the time just thought he was
always doing work and didnt really notice his problem until she broke into his office and saw for
her self all the clipings taped on the wall and scattered all over the room. Heres where the plot
takes a decidedly different turn and the movie starts to get really good.
In actualiaty the institution was real and his friends have seen how John was acting
different becoming obsessed and sneaking around. When he is at the
institution John under goes Shock treatment quite a few times, and is given medication which
was seen as a cure to his illness. He began to teach and the students loved him for his intelligence and his
honesty. ion to find codes in various magaizines and report back to his
handler, William Parcher.
Schizophrenia had taken over John Nash, as he didnt know who was real to him. When she went into the shed she realized that John hadnt been taken his medication,
She quickly ran back into the house to find the baby crying in a tub of water that was filling up,
and John talking to someone who she couldnt see. Nash after feeling helpless stoped the medication, but no one knew
that he wasnt taking it.
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