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A 4 page paper which examines the film’s story and how the stylistic devices assist in telling the complex tale of a brilliant mathematician’s struggles with schizophrenia. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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where things are transient, ambiguous, subject to vicissitudes" (Scott E1). Such was the dual existence of mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr., protagonist of Ron Howards 2001 Academy Award-winning film,
A Beautiful Mind. Taking film audiences into the delusional mind of as tormented genius is a difficult task, to be sure. But Howard and his creative team prove
themselves to be more than sufficiently prepared to sufficiently meet this challenge. Inspired by Sylvia Nasars biography of the Nobel Prize winner, Howard tells the story of a complex
man who is blessed and cursed by his mind. He is brilliant enough to ponder quantum mechanics, game and number theory, but at the same time he is haunted
by pervasive schizophrenia, which distorts the line between reality and illusion (Scott E1). The film spans a period of nearly fifty years, from 1947, when Nash (Russell Crowe) is
graduate student attending Princeton on a scholarship until the climax, when he is awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize for economic science (Scott E1). In between, he marries Alicia (Jennifer
Connelly), breaks Soviet codes for the Department of the Defense, and precipitously loses his mental stability. The film is oftentimes uncomfortable and harrowing to watch, with Nash suffering several climactic
breakdowns and brief moments of lucidity and temporary remission. The unpredictability of schizophrenia is conveyed in surprising plot twists that catch the audience by surprise much as Nashs delusions
throw him psychologically off-balance. In his review of the film, Princeton student Gabriel Pell observed, "Nash has to claw his way back to reality and reclaim his sanity.
Its an uphill battle that will doubtless cause the audiences heart to sink on more than one occasion" (Pell). The scenes involving Nashs treatment are crucial because the audiences
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