A beautiful mind is a movie about a schizophrenic genius John Nash and how he struggles to live a normal life with his condition. At first his delusions help him out; like his best friend who pushes him to continue the work which ultimately lead to him winning the nobel prize. His delusions start getting out of hand when William, one of his imaginary acquaintances, and he becomes increasingly paranoid. What i love about this movie is that it answers a question i always wondered about. Can schizophrenics live normal lives without medication? I find that telling somebody something isn't real is really interesting because one really can never know and i came to that conclusion when i came across Plato's allegory of the cave.
We judge wether something is real or not by using our five sense and comparing our experiences to other's. If the experiences are all similar we take this to be a reality. Now the problem with schizophrenics is that they can experience the things they see with their five sense so who's to say they are crazy. Sadly we can never know and we put these people in hospitals because they experience things that we cannot. The thing that makes John Nash's case so awesome is that he forced himself into ignoring his delusions because of his love for his family. In my opinion, John Nash is perfectly sane because he realized his delusions were not real and delt with them............sounds like the sane thing to do :D
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