a beautiful mind

Daniela 2022-03-17 09:01:01

The film won an Oscar for Best Picture in 2001. It tells the story of a mathematician John Nash from his youth to his old age. john nash is indeed a man. He is the founder of the basic theory of game theory and won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994. It is said that after john nash himself watched the film, he did not think that what the film narrated was his own experience. But in fact, this is not important. "It is not through facts, but through imagination to try to praise the spirit of a life and achieve some truth."

The story of the film is very surprising. There is really nothing in the first 30 minutes that can cause a huge inner heart. The feeling of vibration. I just feel that this movie is just an ordinary film about an intellectual. The tempo of the film is not hurried or slow, and many calm scenes and interesting dialogues are also comfortable. But when his chief parcher led him to escape, the calm and warm tone of the film changed, and even the soundtrack of the film slowly changed from a soothing state to a tense state.
Unexpectedly, the three important people around him who had a major impact on his life were actually imaginary figures from his schizophrenic state. In his student life, he once had a very close roommate charls. The dialogue on the rooftop actually hinted. This first hallucination character was actually the result of his poor interpersonal relationship. He once said, "I don't like people much, and people don't much like me". What he said to this imaginary friend actually showed how sensitive Nash's heart is to have a friend. This kind of powerful pressure and lonely pain caused his hallucinations. In the second half of the film, when he realizes that his friend does not actually exist, he can still see him from time to time. He expressed his own voice, he said how I wish I could talk to charls sometimes, how I wish he was not an illusion.
The same pressure at work and the eagerness to succeed and the affirmation of other people's nash produced another person's illusion, which is what he called the chief parcher. For a long time before the film, I didn't really explain whether this person was a fictional character or not. It was not until Nash's wife discovered that he had begun to crack the so-called password again, and the film confessed that when he returned home from the mental hospital, because he was eager to get an academic breakthrough, he avoided the harm of psychotropic drugs to his brain. The medicine has caused a serious illness. The reappearance of parcher is more of the past.
The middle part of the film is desperate. In fact, at that time, the audience could not really tell whether nash was really schizophrenic or whether he was forcibly locked into a psychiatric hospital for some reason. At that time, the nash that the audience saw was heartbreaking, full of beards, messy hair, and nervous expressions.
This genius was not knocked down by his own disease in the end, he still judged by his own rational thinking what is reality and what is just the consciousness in his brain. I think the real strength of the film is that Nash's illness has not been cured until he is old, and his fictional characters have always appeared in his living environment. But he was in a calm posture, still just living his own life, ignoring the existence of those hallucinations. Concentrated on his own research, and finally achieved major achievements.

I think this may be a moral, meaning that there will always be some shadows in our lives that have been haunting us, and some things cannot be solved. But if we can lay down our burdens and look forward and ignore the things that drag our lives, then maybe our lives can be easier and we can have a better state of pursuing what we really want. I think the meaning of this movie is ultimately here.

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A Beautiful Mind quotes

  • John Nash: And then, on the way home, Charles was there again. Sometimes I miss talking to him. Maybe Rosen is right. Maybe I have to think about going back to the hospital.

    Alicia Nash: Maybe try again tomorrow.

  • General: You ever... just know something, Dr. Nash?

    Nash: Constantly.