A Beautiful Mind

Name: A Beautiful Mind

Genre: Biography/Drama

Cast: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed. Harris, Ron Howard (Director)

Synopsis: John Nash (Russell Crowe) arrives at Princeton University.  He is recipient of the prestigious Carnegie Scholarship for Mathematics. Nash meets a group of brilliant and promising graduate students of Math and Science which includes Richard, Ainsley and Bender. He meets a man name Charles Herman a literature student who was his roommate and their friendship begins. Nash wants to develop an original idea for his thesis and only after that he wants to publish it as he was under immense pressure to publish it. His inspiration comes at a bar where Nash and his fellow friends tried to approach a woman to have a conversation. Nash says that a cooperative approach will lead to better chances to have a success later that individuality and this leads to the idea of governing dynamics which later on he develops and publishes. After this conclusion he was offered an appointment at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with Sol and Bender. After few years teaching in MIT, Nash falls in love with his Alicia Larde (Jennifer Connelly) and after some time they marry each other.

Nash was invited to crack the encrypted telecommunication of enemy and he was able to break the code mentally which astonishes the other code breakers present there. Seeing that, he was given new assignment by new supervisor William Parcher (Ed. Harris) of US department of Defense to look for new patterns in various newspapers and magazines to crush the Soviet plot. As Nash was being bored of his regular teaching in MIT he sees this very interested and becomes obsessive in finding the patterns. As he continues his work and whenever he tries put his results in an envelope and put up in the mailbox as told of William he believes someone is following him. Later on, Nash witnessed a shootout William and Soviet agents and seeing this he fears for his life but William pressures Nash that he should stay on and complete his assignment. At a guest lecture at Harvard University Nash tried to flee from there from Dr. Rosen and foreign agents. He punched Rosen and was caught and was forcibly taken to psychiatric facility. Rosen meets Alicia and tells her about the whole story and also that William, Charles and rest of the men as Nash is saying is only his imagination and not in reality. Alicia investigates the documents in the mailbox as told by Nash but all the documents were there and no one has taken or even opened the documents.

Later Nash was given shock therapy and after some time he was released. Nash starts getting frustrated from the medicine he was taking and suddenly stops taking that. This re-imagination starts again and he meets Parcher. Nash was bathing his infant son but in an incident he endangers his infant son and throws his wife Alicia away accidentally. Alicia in fear walks away from home with his child. Nash comes in front of Alicia’s car and tell her that “She never gets old” as he was referring this to Marcee. She looks the same age as he meets her years ago and admitted to Alicia that these are hallucinations after all. Both of them meet Dr. Rosen but Nash decided not take his medication and decided to deal with these hallucinations in his own way. Alicia supported him all the time. Nash Later on went to Princeton University he meets his old friend Martin Hansen, who is now Head of Mathematics department to work in and out of the library. Later on Nash taken a hold on himself and learns how to ignore those hallucinations of Charles, Marcee and William. He was also given permission to teach in the university again.

Nash was honored by his fellow professors for great contribution in Game theory which results in winning Noble Prize for Economics. After receiving the noble prize in Stockholm and when he was leaving the auditorium he sees Marcee, Charles and Parcher. Nash stopped and seeing that Alicia asks him that what’s wrong to which he replied “nothing” and both moved went out of auditorium.

Review: One of the beautiful crafted movies made by Ron Howard and one of beautiful performances given by Russell Crowe. How the biography was filmed on John Nash was mind blowing. Performance of the rest of crew including Jennifer Connelly, Ed. Harris and others were good. The movie went on with a steady pace and during the whole movie focus each and every aspect of the movie which includes romance, drama and how mathematics was involves in the movie was absolutely brilliant. This was the reason that the movie had won 4 Oscars and also received other awards as well. Hats off  Ron Howard, Russell Crowe and rest of the crew.

 Stars given: 4.5 out of 5.