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This 7 page paper discusses the entitled movie, the differences between the movie and the reality of John Nash's life, and paranoid schizophrenia. The writer reminds the reader of some of the scenes in the film and how the movie lures the audience into Nash's delusions. Some of the many events not depicted in the movie are discussed. The paper describes the symptoms and diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia for the reader to reflect on how these were depicted in the movie. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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paranoid schizophrenia. The director does this so brilliantly, by the end of the movie, the audience is left wondering what was real and what was hallucinatory? The film opens
in a large, wood-paneled lecture room, the professor is at the lectern with his hands in his pockets; students are sitting at desks. The professor is saying that mathematicians won
the war, they broke the Japanese code, they built the A-bomb. All students are attentive except Nash, who is sitting in the back looking down. The professor subsequently asks who
in the room will be the next Einstein. At that, Nash looks up from the corner of his eye. The audience knows Nash is thinking. At that, the professor says
to the class "Welcome to Princeton, Gentlemen." The year was 1948. In the movie, within a span of ten years, Nash develops his theory on game theory, forms a lasting
friendship with his room-mate, Charles, is invited and accepts a prestigious research and teaching position at MIT, was recruited by the U.S. Government and works on a top-secret intelligence cryptology
project, saw his theories gain favor not by mathematicians but by economists, married Alicia, who was one of his physics students and is just about to become a father when
his mind takes off into schizophrenic delusions. It is only towards the end of the movie that the audience realizes most of these events were delusions; they were not real.
The director has skillfully led the audience into Nashs delusions. The audience is shown the abandoned building with a rural-type mailbox outside locked gates. This is where Nash is bringing
his information for the top secret government agency. In the film, his coworkers become suspicious of what Nash is really doing because of his very odd behaviors. One of them
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