A Beautiful Mind Paper
Mayank Sharma
Mr. Lee
Pre-Calculus, Period 2
25 November 2013
A Beautiful Mind Paper “Seeing is believing” is a famous American proverb that has played a major role in the movie, A Beautiful Mind, and it greatly affects the main character John Nash. A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical drama film based on the life of John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard, from a screenplay written by Akiva Goldsman and was inspired by a book with the same name as the movie. This movie was exceptionally good in the box office, but was criticized due to its inaccuracy in some of the events that occurred in John Nash’s actual life. John Nash goes through a fluctuation of highs and lows from his time as a Mathematics student in graduate school at Princeton in the late 1940's to his Nobel Prize win for Economics in 1994. Early in the film, Nash begins to develop paranoid schizophrenia and endures the symptoms which were delusional episodes while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings to his wife and friends. A brilliant but somewhat arrogant and antisocial man, Nash preferred to spend his time with his thoughts, which were primarily of seeing mathematical formula associated with everyday occurrences, than with people. The two people he did make a connection with were Charles, his roommate at Princeton, and Alicia Larde, one of his students when he was teaching at M.I.T. in the early 1950's. He and Alicia eventually marry. Meanwhile the government asks his help with breaking Soviet codes, which soon gets him involved in a terrifying conspiracy plot. Nash grows more and more paranoid until a discovery that turns his entire world upside down. This discovery leads him to realize he has schizophrenia and the only way to cure it is through therapy and medications, but this does not help. Now it is only with Alicia's help that he will be able to recover his mental strength and regain his status as the great
Mr. Lee
Pre-Calculus, Period 2
25 November 2013
A Beautiful Mind Paper “Seeing is believing” is a famous American proverb that has played a major role in the movie, A Beautiful Mind, and it greatly affects the main character John Nash. A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical drama film based on the life of John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard, from a screenplay written by Akiva Goldsman and was inspired by a book with the same name as the movie. This movie was exceptionally good in the box office, but was criticized due to its inaccuracy in some of the events that occurred in John Nash’s actual life. John Nash goes through a fluctuation of highs and lows from his time as a Mathematics student in graduate school at Princeton in the late 1940's to his Nobel Prize win for Economics in 1994. Early in the film, Nash begins to develop paranoid schizophrenia and endures the symptoms which were delusional episodes while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings to his wife and friends. A brilliant but somewhat arrogant and antisocial man, Nash preferred to spend his time with his thoughts, which were primarily of seeing mathematical formula associated with everyday occurrences, than with people. The two people he did make a connection with were Charles, his roommate at Princeton, and Alicia Larde, one of his students when he was teaching at M.I.T. in the early 1950's. He and Alicia eventually marry. Meanwhile the government asks his help with breaking Soviet codes, which soon gets him involved in a terrifying conspiracy plot. Nash grows more and more paranoid until a discovery that turns his entire world upside down. This discovery leads him to realize he has schizophrenia and the only way to cure it is through therapy and medications, but this does not help. Now it is only with Alicia's help that he will be able to recover his mental strength and regain his status as the great