The Movie Analysis of “A Beautiful Mind”

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 :

-          Russell Crowe -          Ed Harris -          Jennifer Connelly -          Paul Bettany -          Josh Lucas -          Adam Goldberg

-         Anthony Rapp -         Vivien Cardone -         Christopher Plummer -         Judd Hirsch -         Jason Gray-Stanford -         Bryce Dallas Howard

6.      Character :

-          Russell Crowe as John Forbes Nash -          Ed Harris as William Parcher -          Jennifer Connelly as Alicia Larde -          Paul Bettany as Charles Herman -          Josh Lucas as Martin Hansen -          Adam Goldberg as Sol

-         Anthony Rapp as Bender -         Vivien Cardone as Marcee -         Christopher Plummer as Dr. Rosen -         Judd Hirsch as Helinger -         Jason Gray-Stanford as Ainsley Neilson

7.      Characterizations :

-         John Nash : introvert , loner, stiff, unsocial, low self-esteem, weird, genius

-         Alicia Nash : patient, lover, loyal, optimism

-         William Parcher : stubborn, provocateur, cynical, unreal

-          Charles Herman: friendly, provocateur, annoying, unreal

-         Martin Hansen : arrogant, unbeatable

-         Sol and bender : obedient

-         Marcee : spoiled, unreal

-         Dr. Rosen: kind, helpful

-         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.