The movie, A Beautiful Mind, is centered around the life of John Nash, a mathematical genius who suffered from schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a long term mental illness that causes people to seemingly lose touch with reality. In this case, Nash hallucinates many things which cause many aspects of his life to deteriorate. However, many emotional needs are filled by the stimulating hallucinations. For example, Nash hallucinations that he has a roomate while he is attending Princeton College. In this case, the roommate becomes one of Nash’s best friends and almost a brother figure in his life. Nash often struggles with the intimidation from his fellow classmates and find them extremely ill-mannered. For this reason, the roommate is always there …show more content…
Years later, Nash finds a wife and is expecting a child. In order to deal with living in a home and expecting a family, Nash creates Marcy. Marcy is a young girl who his best friend is now the guardian of. Marcy fills the paternal need that Nash was wanting and ultimately prepares him for caring for his own son. Eventually, Nash’s wife, Alicia, comes to the realization that many aspects of Nash’s life are hallucinated. Nash receives treatment and journeys down the road to recovery. The quote “Healing does not occur in isolation,” is very applicable to Nash’s situation and his attempt at recovery. With the help of many of his friends and his caring wife, Nash is able to continue his daily life despite having a major mental illness. Knowing his wife’s love is real is one of the main things that help him delineate from what is a hallucination and from what is not a hallucination. Nash ends up living a very successful and fulfilling life despite all of the hardships he dealt with on a day to day basis. He made many accomplishments, the major on being winning the nobel peace