The story of the renowned American mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr, winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics can be seen in the film “An amazing mind"Based on the unauthorized publication of Sylvia Nasar"homonymous novel"Which deals with the biography of the famous mathematician.
The film was released in 2001 under the direction and production of Ron Howard with a budget of $ 60 million, raising an impressive sum of $ 315 million to world level. The film was acclaimed by the audience, however, it received strong criticism for having some wrong data in the John Nash story.
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A Wonderfull mind or Brilliant mind As it is also known, it was the winner of 4 Oscars, also received 28 recognized awards and was a candidate for another 50 awards.
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In this article you will find:
Analysis of the Film A Wonderful Mind
We have divided this analysis into different stages, to make it easier to understand:
The talent of John Nash
John Nash is a 1947 Princeton University student who stands out above all others for his abilities mathematics, has a magnificent quality to decipher patterns hidden in nature, as well as in different manufactured objects by man.
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For John Nash everything is related to mathematics in such a way that he spends his days checking theories and applying formulas, so that he could be described as a passionate person that borders on the obsessive
University stage
At Princeton University there are also other promises for mathematics such as Martin Hansen who likewise that Nash receives the prestigious Carnegie Scholarship, which causes a rivalry between them to prove who is the best.
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During his study time, he also meets other outstanding students and meets his roommate Charles Herman, a literature student with whom he forms a sincere friendship.
Nash's Inspiration in Game Theory
Nash was pressured at the University by the head of the Department of Mathematics to publish his project, but he could not find that original idea that inspired him to publish, until one day, sharing in a bar with his fellow students, he found that inspiration.
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How to conquer a group of women in a bar? The response of his rival "save who can" to what Nash argues that a cooperative system would be satisfactory and increase the chances of doing so. This was the inspiration that led Nash to publish him for the magazine "Annals of Mathematics" with his ideas of "non-cooperative games."
Love comes to Nash
Meanwhile Nash was a failure for love, he did not know how to approach women because like mathematics he wanted to be exact and get straight to the point, however, Little by little he wins the heart of Alice Lardé, to whom he proposes marriage and performs an intimate ceremony with the help of her faithful friend Charles de he and his favorite niece Marceé.
Nash's insights
Thanks to the skills to decipher codes, he is searched by the pentagon to obtain information on the calls of the enemies, then receives a new mission by the hand of William Parcher who was part of the United States Department of Defense to search and decipher patterns that carried messages hidden in different publications of what they considered a plot that was being carried out by the union Soviet.
The fears
Nash who has always been obsessed with mathematics does his thing, however, in the middle of this obsession begins to feel stalked by the enemy and thinks that he is being pursued by agents secrets.
He later becomes involved in a shootout between William Parcher and Soviet agents which causes a great impact on his social life so he talks to Parcher to quit this job, but is manipulated by him to not accept the resignation.
Evidence of your illness
At a lecture at Harvard University he suffers from a paranoia attack and hits Dr. Rosen thinking that he works for the Soviets so he has to be forcibly sedated and taken to a center psychiatric.
Dr. Rosen diagnoses Nash with schizophrenia and tells Alice that William Parcher and even his great friend Charles and the girl Marcee hers are the product of her imagination, so she decides to confront her husband with some unopened documents that were hidden in a mailbox secret.
Acceptance of your illness
Nash finally recognizes that he is ill and does everything possible to receive treatment and to please his wife Alice. He receives treatments for electric shocks and is indicated with heavy doses of drugs.
Side effects
Nash cannot cope with the adverse effects that his treatments produce so he decides to stop receiving them without Alice suspecting it, which produces a new relapse into his schizophrenia, but this time with greater consequences since in an attack of hallucinations he hits Alice and her son, thinking that they were Parcher in search of murder him.
Even though Dr. Rosen warns him that he must continue taking his medications and cannot walking away from treatment, Nash ignores his suggestions and decides to face the situation at once. your way.
Everything goes back to normal
As time passes, Nash decides to return to his roots and meets Martin Hansen, his old rival in college and who is now the head of the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University, which invites him to work at the library.
As the years go by, Hans learns to deal with his demons and after an apparent improvement he gains the trust of the university and begins to teach the students.
The end of his career
For the year 1994 he is awarded the Nobel Prize where he gives an impeccable speech of thanks to his wife, this is how the film ends when Nash and Alice leave the stage.
Finally, Nash hallucinates again believing that they were next to him and accompanying him, his former head of the Department of Defense Parcher, his friend Charles and the girl Marcee.
