Mind vs.Heart: A Beautiful Mind

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    Most people have a grasp on reality. That's not the case for everyone. Today we're looking at the case of John Nash, mathematician and Nobel Prize winner on Economics, who apparently had paranoid schizophrenia. In 2001, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer adapted John's life into a film entitled, A Beautiful Mind. This film won 4 academy awards including Best Picture. What won those awards?

    Once upon a time, a mathematician named John Nash in on the brink of a mathematical breakthrough. But when he meets people like William Parcher and Charles Herman, his life is changed and affects almost everything. Even his relationship with his wife Alicia. Will John be able to accept what's really happening to him?  

   Where did some of John's imaginary friends come from? The first product of John's mind was Charles Herman, his "room mate.'' No one can really know, but one guess can be that John was lonely in his new place at Princeton University and thus unknowingly, created Charles. The second, and most dangerous, illusion was William Parcher, who made John believe that he was doing classified work for the government. The third was Charles' young niece Marcee. Marcee came just before John married Alicia. The meaning? Marcee can be John's thoughts of having a life and children with Alicia in the form of a hallucination.  




    

     One of A Beautiful Mind's main points is love. Without love, suicide rates would be even higher. Without his wife Alicia, John would have lingered for years in delusions. Alicia was there to help John most of his life. The idea of this is written into the movie's song, "All Love Can Be." All lot of us know the struggle of having a mental illness, myself included. Some things aren't as severe as schizophrenia, but whatever we suffer from, it can be torture. At least that's how it can be without your loved ones to support you. 

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