Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind is the story of John Nash (Russell Crowe), a talented mathematician, stricken with a mental illness while at the height of his career. He is diagnosed with Schizophrenia, a disease of the mind. Schizophrenia is one of the most disabling and emotionally devastating illnesses known to man. Even though there is no cure for schizophrenia it is a very treatable disease. Most of those afflicted by schizophrenia respond to drug therapy, and many are able to lead productive and fulfilling lives. This movie is about a man’s struggle to become sane again and continue with his life.
The movie starts out when John Nash is a freshman at Princeton. He sets out to come up with an original idea of how he would be able to set himself apart from the rest of the class? He comes up with the idea, eventually graduates and is presented with a job at Wheeler, on the campus of MIT. He teaches and does small jobs for the government. He’s called in to br...