BEAUTIFUL MIND, A

A MOVIE REVIEW

Title: A BEAUTIFUL MIND

Setting: Princeton University, New Jersey

Characters:

1. John Forbes Nash – A mathematical genius who is obsessed with finding an original idea to ensure his legacy.

2. Alicia Nash – A later student of Nash who catches his attention.

3. Charles Herman – Nash’s roommate throughout graduate college.

4. William Hansen – A government agent for the Department of Defense.

5. Martin Hansen – Nash’s rival from his graduate school year Princeton.

6. Sol – A friend of Nash from Princeton University who is chosen, along with Bender, to work with him at MIT.

7. Bender – A friend of Nash from Princeton University who is chosen along Sol, to work with him at MIT.

8. Marcee – Charle’s niece.

9. Dr. Rosen – Nash’s doctor at a psychiatric hospital.

Plot:

John Nash arrives as a new graduate student at Princeton University. He is a recipient of the prestigious Carnegie Prize for mathematics and his Intellectual stamina and propensity to be too outspoken in his social life. He admits that he is better with numbers that people, saying “I don’t like them much, and they don’t much like me.” After the conclusion of Nash’s as a student at Princeton, he accepts a prestigious appointment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Five years later while teaching a class on Calculus, he meets Alicia a student with whom he falls in love and he eventually marries. He also encounters a mysterious Department of Defense agent, William Parcher. Nash is invited to a United States Department of Defense Facility (The Pentagon) to crack a complex encryption of an enemy telecommunication. Nash able to decipher the code mentally. Parcher observes Nash’s performance from above, while partially concealed behind a screen. Parcher later encourages Nash to look for patterns in magazines and news papers. Nash becomes increasingly paranoid and begins to behave erratically.

Alicia observes this erratic behavior and informs a psychiatric hospital is sedated and sent to a psychiatric facility. Alicia, desperate to help her husband, visits a drop-box and retrieves the never-opened documents. When confronted with this evidence, Nash is finally convinced that he has been hallucinating. The department of Defense agent William Parcher and Nash’s secret assignment was in fact all decision. Even more surprisingly, Nash’s friends Charles and his niece Marcee are also only products of Nash’s mind.

After a painful series of insulin shock therapy sessions, Nash os released on the condition that he agrees to take antipsychotic medication. While bathing his infant son, Nash becomes distracted and wanders off. Alicia runs to the phone to call the psychiatric hospital for emergency assistance. Charles, Marcee, and Parcher all appear to John and urge him to kill his wife. After a moment, Nash observes that Marcee never gets old.

John Nash and his wife decide to try to live with his abnormal condition schizophrenia. He still suffers hallucinations and periodically has to check if new people he meets are real.