John Nash was a brilliant but socially awkward mathematician who won the Nobel Prize for Economics. The film depicts his life from his time as a graduate student at Princeton University, where he developed his most important work, to his battle with schizophrenia. Nash's theories led him to a position at MIT but his illness worsened, requiring hospitalization. Supported by his wife Alicia, Nash was eventually able to control his delusions and return to researching at Princeton. He received the Nobel Prize in 1994 in recognition of his contributions to game theory, economics, and social science.

1. A BEAUTIFUL MIND
JOHN NASH

2. Plot Summary
A beautiful mind is a biographical film, a true story of one of the great scientist and professor of 20th century
John Nash. He won a Nobel prize for his theories in Mathematics despite the fact he was suffering from
schizophrenia. The movie tells the amazing life of John Nash from when he arrives at Princeton University as a
young Math student, until his life as an old man. The movie beautifully illustrates how a terrible disease
schizophrenia effected the life of John Nash, while he was a student at Princeton. At Princeton socially awkward
Nash was struggling to find an Idea for research and some mean course mates kept teasing him about it. One
day Nash finds himself at a bar with his course mates and that’s when he is struck by a thunderbolt and came
up with his greatest idea of Nash equilibrium. His theory led him to start Research at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) after Princeton. There while his disease was growing worse he met Alicia, who was his
student in a class he taught at the university. The two got married and it wasn’t until latter that Alicia found out
about his disease. She tried to do everything in her ability to take care of her ill husband as he got worse. He
was admitted to a mental institutions and remained on drugs for years. But by the support of his wife and for
the love of his new born baby boy Nash was able to fight back his delusions and again start his work at
Princeton although he had now lost his edge on mathematics. He started getting involved in the community and
kept on researching. At last in 1994 he was awarded Noble prize for his work.
Inspiration
After watching this moviewe were quiet movedandit gotus thinkinghow we makeexcuses to escape work and refuse to
think outsidethe box whereas this personsuffering from sucha terrible disease refuses to give up. He putshis heart and
soul tocome up with a new idea, somethingvery different from others. Althoughhis professorswere pressurizinghim to
come up with somethingquickly andhe was alsofacing peer pressure from his course mateswho were also ahead of him,
he kept pushinghimself toreach excellence. And he was successful in the end. What we can learn from him is to never
ever give up.
JohnNashtaughtusthat it is only uswho understandourselvesthe best. We saw in the film that when he accepted the
fact thathe was schizophreniaandpeople he is seeing and their stories are not real. It’s that when he got controlover
himself, he understoodhowto block his delusions andmove forward.
JohnNashin the starttold his friend that he doesn’tlike people and the people don’tlike him aswell. Which wasn’ttrue,
andthis was all in his mind. It is only love that conquersall. And this is what we see later in the movie, his wife, his
soulmatefalsified all his believes and turnhim into a lovingprofessor tohis students. His speech at the ceremony depicts
the same.
One thingthat we noticedin the moviewas that JohnNashalwaysthoughtabouthimself, his achievements andhe
cannotthink aboutanythingelse not even his wife and hischild. Which I think was the cause of his schizophrenia. Wesee
this statein usand many people aroundus, we think only aboutourself, our struggles, andour success. By thinkingwe
andour time is better andmore importantthanotherswe make ourlife hell.