The Movie Analysis
1. Name of the movie : A Beautiful Mind
2. Year of release : In 2001
3. Director : Ron Howard
4. Genre : Drama
5. Stars :
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6. Character :
7. Characterizations :
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John
Nash : introvert , loner, stiff, unsocial, low self-esteem, weird, genius
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Alicia
Nash : patient, lover, loyal, optimism
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William
Parcher : stubborn, provocateur, cynical, unreal
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Charles Herman: friendly, provocateur,
annoying, unreal
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Martin Hansen : arrogant, unbeatable
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Sol and bender : obedient
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Marcee : spoiled, unreal
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Dr. Rosen: kind, helpful
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Helinger : motivate
8. Time : in 1947
9. Place : in Princeton University
10. The expectation before watching the
movie : I expect that this movie is happy
ending
11. Synopsis of the movie :
A Beautiful Mind is a movie
which tells about the story of the struggle of a genius mathematician named
John Forbes Nash, who has created an economic concept that now is used as the basis of contemporary
economic theory. During the Cold War, Nash
suffers schizophrenia that make his live in hallucinations and always
overshadowed by the fear that he had to fight hard to recover and won the Nobel
prize in 1994, when he entered old age.
The story begins with a young Nash in 1948 who starts the
first days of lectures at prestigious university, Princeton University. Since the
beginning, Nash is a simple man from the hamlet of Virginia. he is loner person, shy, low self-esteem, introvert
and weird. He does not really like dealing with people and it seems nobody
likes him. Behind all its shortcomings, Nash also describes as an arrogant man
who is proud of his cleverness. It is showed by refusing to attend classes
which considers only wasting time and makes the brain dull. Instead, Nash spends
more time outside the classroom to have the original idea for the title and
received his doctorate at the prestigious research center, Wheeler Defense Lab
at MIT.
Nash's lifes began to change when he is asked Pentagon to
decode secret messages sent by Soviet troops. There, he meet a secret agent
William Parcher. From this secret agent, he is given a job as a spy. His new
job is to make Nash obsessed until he forget the time and living in his own
world.
Alicia Larde is a beautiful student which make him realize
that he needs love. When Nash and Alicia marry, Nash get worse and feel
continues to be in danger because of his job as a secret agent. Nash
increasingly look weird and scared, until finally when he is doing a
presentation at a Harvard seminar, Dr. Rosen, a psychiatrist arrests and take
him to a mental hospital. From there it is revealed, Nash suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. Some of Nash’s
experiences are fantasies . There was never a roommate, Herman and adorable
niece, Marcee or Parcher with the secret project.
Luckily, Alicia is a loyal wife who never tired of
encouraging her husband. With the encouragement and love that never run out
from Alicia. Finally Nash rises up, fights against the disease and he gets a
noble.
12. The message of the movie :
Don’t ever give up in every obstacle we have.
We should struggle and face it to get a better result or solutions.
13. The impression after watching the movie :
At the first time when I watched this movie,
I though all of Nash’s friends are real, so that I was confused, but after
finishing this movie it wasn’t anymore.
