A Beautiful Mind 

A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 biographical film about mathematician John Nash who is making history in the mathematical field whilst Scizophrenia sets in. For those of you that do not know what schizophrenia is it is a mental disorder that causes hallucinations and for people to see and hear things that are not in reality there. A Beautiful Mind was released in the United States on December 21, 2001. The movie starts in the year 1947 and goes on until 1994. The film then went on to win four Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing, and Best Supporting Actress. 

The movie starts out with John Nash arriving at Princeton University to receive an award from Carnegie, which is a scholarship for mathematicians. While there he meets some new friends including his roommate Charles Herrman, who happens to be a literature student. Nash has been eager to produce his own work. While sitting at a bar with his newfound friends they are investigating the way to approach a group of girls. From this, Nash then goes on to publish an article on the topic. This article won him a meeting at Massachusetts Institute Of Technology or MIT. 

Jumping to 1953, Nash receives a call from the Pentagon inviting him to come study encrypted enemy telecommunication. Due to Nash being bored of teaching at MIT, he had no hesitation in taking the job offer. While studying enemy telecommunications he meets a man by the name of William Parcher. Nash believes he has been assigned to a secret mission where he has to figure out classified information and drop the files off at a secret mailbox. Although he believes this is all true it is in fact not. This is when we get to see the schizophrenia set in. On One occasion Nash believed he was in a shootout between Parcher and members of the Soviet Union. In another instance, while Nash is guest lecturing at the Univerity of Havrad he runs trying to escape the Soviet Union members. He is caught by the lead psychiatrist there and is sedated and taken to the hospital. This is when we finally get a diagnosis of schizophrenia. He was prescribed medication but due to the side effects he was feeling he decided to stop taking them and the hallucinations started again. His then-wife notices the relapse and tries to get him help.

After this last occasion, he finally realizes and accepts his diagnosis. He comes to this realization by reliving these hallucinations and realizing that they are all the same. Not once did the story of his hallucinations change. He also realizes that the people in his hallucinations are never aging. Even though he had been having those hallucinations for almost twenty years. Eventually, he returned back to Princeton where he was allowed to audit courses. Nash learns how to ignore his hallucinations and is then allowed to begin teaching again.