A Beautiful Mind

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“A Beautiful Mind” To start off with, “A Beautiful Mind” was, in my own opinion, greatly directed and easily understandable to any individual who watched it. The realism of the scenery displayed throughout the movie shows in great detail how that time era used to be; with my undivided attention, that is what made me become fully immersed and attracted to the movie. The beginning of “A Beautiful Mind” takes place in year of nine-teen forty seven in Princeton, New Jersey. John Nash finds a determination to discover a new theory that will prove more reliable and accurate than the other, in the field of math. After establishing a groundbreaking discovery, he was offered an appointment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he later met up with Sol and Bender, his two colleagues. A few years afterwards, John has been appointed by the Pentagon to decrypt an encoded message by the soviets. This is where he meets Parcher, an undercover agent who works for the department of defense. He hires Nash to decrypt hidden messages within magazines and articles to figure encoded messages being relayed to soviets. He then plummets even more into this “mysterious” secret agent job by escorting packs of information into a mailbox, where Parcher would receive them, putting John into harm’s way. During one of John’s assembly in the MIT, he becomes feared that he is being hunted by the Russians, and tries to escape them. As it turns out, a man by the name of Dr. Rosen who works in an asylum, tends to Nash, and diagnoses him with schizophrenia. This would be the turning point of the movie, where Nash doubts his conditions, and his wife Alicia convinces him it’s all in his head. After many insulin shock therapies, Nash returns home from the facility, where he now takes antipsychotic medicine to treat his conditions. After a while, Nash decides to discontinue his

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