The Film A Beautiful Mind Essay

The hero of the film A Beautiful Mind is a real person, mathematician John Nash, who became a Nobel Prize winner in his later years for his early work. And this "beautiful mind" is suffering from one of the mental illnesses - namely schizophrenia, which resulted in an aggravation of the disease to the dangerous persecution mania, in a lighter form - to the visions taken for reality.
The fate of a talented scientist tracked for half a century - from the second half of the 40s to the late 90s. And, apparently, this movie should be considered as usual biographical narrative, where the only unusual element is the splitting of consciousness of the protagonist, which, however, can be attributed to the typical genius strange behavior, by the way, perfectly transmitted in the game of Russell Crowe. But the man is a little bit out of this world, in actual fact, as though living in two parallel realities that somewhere intersect with one another, according to the theory of another great mathematician.
Particularly impressive this dramatic gap in the John Nash environmental perception becomes reality in those years when American society has been embraced by anti-communist spy mania. Russian accomplices seek out among their own members of the creative and scientific intelligentsia. Therefore, it seems quite convincing that Nash was allegedly recruited while in the Pentagon special agent Parcher, who instructed math isolate on the periodical press a secret code Communist supporters preparing acts of sabotage in the United States.
Despite the fact that a permanent dialogue with John Nash "ghosts" is overly intrusive and at times even comical-looking, movie A Beautiful mind retains the right tone because of the existence on-screen of accurate Russell Crowe. He was able to convey enthusiasm for the amazing scientist who turns into a true obsession bordering on insanity, beyond what is already a complete loss of contact with reality.
There is only a thin line between genius and madness. The real story of the brilliant mathematician John Nash, has done a herculean job in the field of game theory, which turned this branch of mathematics and has brought him international fame and the Nobel Prize. But the path to it was a struggle with his own mind.
Personally, I like the idea of the two worlds presented in the movie – the real world and imaginary one, that exists only for John. On one hand, we can see the reality - enrolling in Princeton of young and gifted mathematician who starts searching for his original ideas. He was closed in himself, not popular, did not like to communicate with others. His life was full of mathematics. Soon, he meets a girl who finds her love and destiny in him. This is a story about the life of a scientist, full of different moments – both good and bad.
But on the other hand it is a life of a sick person who unconsciously creates another world. What if the memories, the people he loved, with whom he worked, who waited and believed in - that was just an illusion? What if they never existed? The opposite of genius, its mirror image, which is always there - its craziness. And they took up over John Nash. Doctors diagnosed "paranoid schizophrenia". But what would have been John Nash doing without the help of a close and dear person, without the support of his wife Alice? Whether he would be able to return to the university, along with his past, which always remained with him but he was able to suppress? Most likely no. Next to the genius must be a near and dear person who can help to confront madness.
I believe that this film has few messages sent to the spectaculars. First of all – nobody is protected from mental illness. Even such a beautiful mind as John’s can be in the risk zone. The second message found by me was the importance of support and love. It is difficult to imagine life aside with a sick person who talks with imaginary people, who thinks that he is a secret decoder and unravels the secret information messages. Even though it was very hard for Alice – she was supporting her husband through all these years, she was trying to understand him and help to get rid of his sinking into the imaginary world.
I know that this film had a lot of critics, that scenario is not a perfect one, but I like this movie. It was keeping me in tension, it was interesting, it caused a bunch of emotions and variety of thoughts. In the end of the movie I had a question – if all my friends are real?
I cannot say that we can find a positive image of a sick person in this move or stigmatization of mental illness. I did not find any of it. The thing tat I can say for sure is that movie makers did their best to show both sides of the mental illness. They have described the most real image without the personal opinion. They gave role of a judge to the spectator and each of us can decide what he saw in the main character.
This film is all about incredible internal struggle, solving of the most difficult problem - the problem of the life, and the final victory in the game with the mind.