A Beautiful Mind Schizophrenia

A Beautiful mind was directed by Ron Howard. The main character John Nash enrolls as a graduate student at Princeton University and he suffers from schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a long-term mental disorder involving faulty hallucinations and a withdrawal from reality into a fantasy and delusion. He is assigned a dorm to himself but his roommate Charles later moves in. Charles is not a real person, he’s a character created by Nash’s illness. Nash confesses and is evident in the movie that he’s better with numbers than with people. He spends all of his attendance at Princeton basically isolated from other students, his only real friend was a figment of his imagination.
After Nash graduates from Princeton he is offered a teaching job at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).This is where he meets his wife while she was a student. Larde fully accepts Nash for who is but isn’t fully aware of his condition. They later get married

Charles introduces Nash to his niece Marcee which is also a delusion. It seems like the characters Nash creates is to fill a void of family or long term relationships aside from his wife. During his visit he meets William Parcher, a mysterious Department of Defense agent that Nash created. Nash is told to crack complex code for the government by Parcher.

Parcher tells Nash to looks for codes and shapes that identify a Russian code. Nash has to place his finding in a specific mailbox every time he discovers a new pattern. He is then followed and assaulted by Russian spies that want the codes. After exchanging gunfire with the Russians, Nash becomes increasingly paranoid and begins to behave