A Beautiful Mind: A Beautiful Mind By Sylvia Naar

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“A Beautiful Mind”, a compelling movie with psychology background, is an America movie which directed by Ron Howard (IMDb, 2002). The main character of the movie, John Nash, is casted by Russell Crowe. The movie is adapted from a biography “A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar which is about a real life story of John Forbes Nash, Jr., an American mathematician who received 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences because of his fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and the study of partial differential equations. His biography is very interesting because apart of his achievements in mathematics, he is a schizophrenic. This biographical drama-themed movie is not just about life story, but the story of the main …show more content…

This is because unfortunately, people who take this kind of drugs often do not return to the same level of functioning they were at before the illness. This is justified in the movie as Nash is between intellectual paralysis of the antipsychotic drugs and his delusions. As a genius, it is difficult for Nash to do nothing but mathematics. When Sol visits Nash, he sees that Nash is still trying do simple mathematics problems to fill his time. However, intelligence, which means the ability to learn from one’s experiences, acquire knowledge, and use resources effectively in adapting to new situations or solving problems (Stenberg & Kaufman, 1998; Wechsler, 1975) still applies to Nash as he still has long term memory. Not just that, Nash also had made attempt to stop feeding drugs as he could not be a good husband and wife and found him could not give his attention and love to his wife. However, he always bothered by his hallucinations and delusions even though he takes back his medicines and eventually at the end of the movie he managed to ignore them that still haunts him and leads a normal life. The last scene is the dramatic scene when Nash’s action in stopping to take medicine has finally taken a toll to him. However, fortunately, he manages to get back to reality. The most heart-breaking part is when Alicia appeals to her husband and tells him to distance himself from his hallucinatory world and live in the real world with her and their child. She appeals not to his brilliant intellect, but to his heart. The support from Alicia has been the reinforcement for John Nash to change himself, be a better person and tries to fit into society. I agree with each message conveyed in this movie. It brings a story of a stressed genius student who unconsciously builds hallucinations and acknowledges audience on how negative symptoms can leads us to psychological disorder, the knowledge about

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