A Beautiful Mind - A film review

We first meet John Nash at Princeton University in 1947 as a mathematician with social problems due to paranoid schizophrenia. He’s brilliant and doesn’t hold back on expressing the capacity and merits of his brain to his peers. As a matter of fact he is already so above the institutional standards that he chooses to skip classes.

He doesn’t have much luck with women either and found himself being slapped in the face all too often with his blunt, "why don't we skip to the sex" line.

Still, he understand his personal condition, so he has as little contact with people as possible, and spends most of his time in his dorm room searching for a discovery of a new theory. He is basically a smart, shy jerk with a wry sense of humour.

Shortly after receiving recognition for his theories at Princeton, he becomes a professor at the prestigious school of MIT and beg

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It is about trying to have a decent life in spite of the tragic behind the devastating disease. With medications to stop the hallucinations Nash is sent back home. But at about the same time he meets his future wife, he also meets the compelling government agent (Ed Harris) who recruits the professor to break codes for the Department of Defence. Slowly Nash regains control over his life and his disease. In 1994, the world acknowledged his original ideas with the Nobel Prize in Economic Science. She works on their relationship more than any wife would have done and I think that John Nash never would have achieved the things he did without her help.

Overall this film is a wonderful experience with outstanding performance by the actors that certainly captures the audience's attention. He attracts the attention of one of his physic students, Alicia Larde, (played by Jennifer Connelly) and she finds Nash's eccentricities charming and asks him out to dinner. He becomes paranoid and delusional and at times violent. This unbelievable performance reminds of his practically spotless work in The Insider. Unlike most films centered around a brainiac, she is not out to be sainted. People and things he believes are real are only in his head. At first you have some doubt about the film from seeing such a muscle man as a geek and because his physique just doesn’t match the habits of Nash, but then his internal dilemmas are more than convincing.

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