A Beautiful Mind: The Scariest Part of The Mental Illness Of Schizophrenia (Movie Review Sample)

A Beautiful Mind
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Introduction
The film, A Beautiful Mind revolves around the main character, Nash a math student at Princeton University. He is obsessed with mathematics and earns himself a job due to his brilliance in math. After a group of his fellow students discusses on how to approach a woman at a bar, Nash is under extreme pressure to publish his initial idea (Goldsman,2002). Nash is offered a job by Parcher of the United States Department of Defense when he’s invited to break into concealed information of the enemy in Pentagon. He’s capable of deciphering the code mentally, and he goes on to get the job.
The Scariest Part of The Mental Illness Of Schizophrenia
Nash is tasked to look for patterns in newspapers and magazines with the intention of thwarting a Soviet plot. Nash is obsessed with looking for these invisible patterns and has in his mind that someone is following his when he delivers his findings to a secret mailbox. The scariest part of developing schizophrenia in this film starts when Nash witnesses a shootout between the Soviet agents and Parcher. Parcher then threatens him to stay on his assignment. These events make Nash uncomfortable when delivering a speech at the University; he tries to get away from a group of people he thinks are the Soviet agents by punching Dr. Rosen. (Siegfried, 2006). 
Afterward, he becomes sedated and they take him to a psychiatric institution he knows is run by the Soviets. The situation worsens when the doctor tells Nash’s wife, Alicia that he has developed Schizophrenia and that his close friends only appear in his imagination. This prompts Alicia to confront Nash after realizing some documents that were sent to a private mailbox by him. Eventually, Nash is given a prescription of insulin shock therapy, and he is released. Nash becomes worried about worried about the effects of the medication he is given after he becomes unresponsive and he decides to quit taking it. It causes him to fall back and goes back to his previous assignment from Parcher.
Do Madness and Genius often go together?
People are willing to endure misery and frustration so as to create something. In this film, we see that in the university, Nash is an oddly dressed student who writes mysterious messages on blackboards and often talks to himself. At some point, he believes that taking drugs could increase physical and intellectual performance (Nasar, 1999). People that fears hatred almost as love are likely to turn into creative activities not only because of a push to undergo aesthetic pleasure or the joy of engaging an active mind.
His discovery wins him recognition at the University where he gets the opportunity to travel, lecture and teaches mathematics and he becomes famous. Consequently, his crazy thinking also wins him love, Alicia, a physics student who likes his madness on math and later they get married. We see that he becomes obsessed with the task Parcher gives him.
My Impressions of Nash in the opening of the graduate school at Princeton
My impression of Nash in this film is that just like his fellow colleagues, he is a smart guy who was studying hard to get through school and that he was mostly concerned about his education and did not consider un-academic activities such as partying and drinking like his classmates. Also, his work has impacted largely on the society, and that mathematics is very relevant. It is mathematics that the professors taught him helped in to decrypt codes during post-World War II America (Lewis, 2003). The overall impression that I get of Nash is that he is propelled by the originality of math believing that by its pursuit, the general benefit is to the society.
How I would describe Nash’s attitude toward intellect — his own and that of others
I consider Nash’s intelligence as being neurological like because he was remarkably skilled in math. He would lock himself in his room to try and figure out toughest math problems and work on them, and it seems he enjoyed doing that. Additionally, I would describe Nash’s intellect as his god because he spent so much power in mathematics to the extent of talking to himself and dressing oddly.
Bernstein (1996) says that people should take care not to make the intellect their god because the mind is so powerful but does not have personality. Nash kept his relationship with others very short, and his social skills were somewhat underdeveloped, were mostly a loner and never went out with his classmates like a normal kid would.
Nash’s teachers’ reference to him as to have been given two helpings of brain but only one helping of heart
The teacher meant that it would be hard for him to interact with others with a lot of ease. The teacher must have noticed Nash’s beh...