movie

A Beautiful Mind

Questions :

1.    Who is/are the main character(s) of the story?

2.    What is the first complication of the story?

3.    What happened with the main character?

4.    Write the synopsis of the movie!

5.    Discuss in pairs!

Answers :

1.    The main character of the movie/story is JOHN NASH.

2.    The first complication with the main character is when John Nash asked the Pentagon to solve the secret code which sent the Soviet army. There, he met the undercover agent William Parcher. From this secret agent, he was given a job as a spy. This new job makes Nash obsessed. Nash was even more severe and continues to be felt in Danger because of his job as a secret agent.

3.    The main character of the movie that is John Nash had a few things, that are:

a.    Presence of delusions, in the meaning beliefs that are maintained.

Such us when Nash believes that the government and Russian spies are being threatened or endanger themselves, which makes him paranoid and suspicious because it was considered, followed, and watched.

b.    Presence of hallucinations, in the meaning false perceptions or assumes about something exists and real when in fact it is just fantasy.

John Nash has hallucinations met with three people who actually do not real. Namely Charles Herman (his roommate), William Parcher (government agencies), and Marchee (nephew of Charles Herman). There was also a secret laboratory, as well as the code number posted on his hands.

c.    Motor symptoms can be seen from the weird facial expressions and the movement typically followed by the hand, finger, and arm crank. This indication is very clear when John Nash met with his friends and also when seen from the passage way.

d.    Emotional disturbance, the most obvious scene is when John Nash holding his child and no emotion at all.

e.    Social withdrawal. John Nash can not interact socially as people in general, he did not like the others and consider other people do not like him so he had a few friends.

f.     Stressors or the events that make pressing the schizophrenic of john Nash is getting worse, when he lost play with his friend, was failing to get achievements his goal, was not able to serve his wife, unable to work or get job back.

4.    The synopsis of the movie.

A Beautiful Mind Movie depicting the struggles of a genius mathematician named John Forbes Nash. Nash suffered the schizophrenic that makes his live in hallucination and always overshadowed by the fear that he had to fight hard to recover and won the Noble prize in 1994, when he enters old age.

The story opens when young Nash started in 1984 that the first day of lectures at prestigious universities, Princeton University. Nash is described as a person a loner, Shy, low self teem, introvert at once strange. He refused to follow the course with he considered that only spend time and make the brain dull. Nash spends more time outside of class to get his original ideas for doctorate degree. Nash had a roommate named Charles Herman who has a little girl niece named Marcee. Nash is so obsessed with mathematics by accident finally managed to find a new concept as opposed to the theory of Adam Smith. This concept he called theory of equilibrium, which drove his doctorate. Nash’s dream comes true. Not only earned his doctorate, he had received as a researcher and lecturer at MIT.

Nash’s life began to change when he asked the Pentagon to solve the secret code which sent the Soviet army. There, he met the undercover agent William Parcher. From this secret agent, he was given a job as a spy. This new job makes Nash obsessed. Nash was even more severe and continues to be felt in Danger because of his job as a secret agent.

Alicia Larde, a beautiful student, which made him realize that he needs love. Nash is increasingly seen strange and fears, until finally when he was bringing his paper at a seminar at Harvard, Dr. Horsen, a psychiatrist arrested and brought to a psychiatric hospital. From there unfolds, Nash suffered from paranoid Schizophrenia. Some of the events experienced Nash had only in fantasy. There was never a roommate, Charles Herman, and an adorable niece Marcee and William Parcher with a secret project.

Fortunately, Alicia was a devoted wife who never tired of giving encouragement to her husband. With the encouragement and love that never runs out of Alicia, Nash got up and fight against the disease.