'A Beautiful Mind' response

A Beautiful Mind is one of the best movies I have ever watched! At first, I thought it wouldn’t be interesting because it was about a mathematician, but I guess I can’t judge a book by its cover. A Beautiful Mind is about a mathematician named John Nash. He wasn’t exactly a student at Princeton University because he only dormed there, he never went to class; “Classes will dull your mind…it will destroy the potential for authentic creativity.” Nash’s roommate, Charles soon became his best friend. He made me laugh by his way of speaking to the woman at the bar, telling her that he wants to have sex with her as soon as possible. But along the way, he married one of his students, Alicia, who he eventually had a child with. One of Nash’s teachers said that he missed too many classes and for him to begin his work as a mathematician, he must write a thesis paper. Nash began work right away and got the inspiration from a woman who was trying to talk to him at a hang-out spot. His thesis paper was going to be about strategies on how to get laid (GENIUS). In his dorm, Nash would lose concentration and become easily distracted. This caused him to become irate and he began to bang his forehead against the window and he began to bleed (INSANITY). Nash was on the lawn of Princeton and he was taking notes on the Algorithm of the pigeon movements. He also drew play diagrams for a football game, pigeons fighting over bread crumbs and a mugging (GENIUS). When Nash lost to a game of Hex with his competition, he became furious and stormed off (MADNESS).

Five years later, Nash somehow works at the Pentagon and then gets a side job as a spy for detective, Parcher, who wants him to crack a code for Russian telecommunication. This is when we find out that Nash has schizophrenia and imagined Parcher and the job as a spy. Nash also imagined his roommate, Charles and his little niece (INSANITY). His paranoia becomes too much to bear for Alicia. She started to feel as if he didn’t love her anymore because he isolated himself. The drugs he had to take caused him to lose his sex drive. Alicia became so infuriated, she threw a glass of water against the mirror in the bathroom and broke it; her screams and tears of frustration joined in unison (INSANITY) and (MADNESS). Nash stopped taking the medication because the side effects would get in the way of satisfying his wife and his work. At the end of the movie, John Nash won a Nobel Prize for his work in a game theory. And he learned to cope with the delusions of seeing Charles, his niece and Detective Parcher, who do not exist.