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Analysis: A Beautiful Mind
A Beautiful Mind is a movie starring Russell Crowe as John Nash, a mathematical genius who suffers from schizophrenia. In the beginning of his career at Princeton University, he made a great mathematical discovery that was set to catapult him into international acclaim. On the brink of all of this, however, he gets pulled into helping the US government break Soviet Codes. He begins to grow more and more paranoid, afraid that the Russians are out to get him. He is eventually committed into a psychiatric ward where he grapples with the knowledge that all of this is fake -- the government he thought he was helping and his best friend since grad school, Charles -- simply just a figment of his imagination. He gets diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and struggles to piece his life back together and live as normally as possible.
In this movie, John Nash is not able to realize that he is schizophrenic. He receives therapy, yes, but......
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