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A Beautiful Mind and Schizophrenia
The movie A Beautiful Mind is a semi biographical story based on the life of the mathematician John Nash and his struggle with schizophrenia. The story begins in Princeton, where Nash is attending graduate school. Nash begins experiencing symptoms of schizophrenia, while in his early twenties at graduate school. Nash has both auditory and visual hallucinations that present themselves as his imaginary roommate and best friend, Charles and Charles's young niece. Throughout his graduate school experience Nash is socially isolated from the rest of his classmates.
After Nash graduates from Princeton, he becomes a professor at the prestigious university, MIT. While at MIT, Nash meets a student of his named Alicia, who he later marries and has a child with. At this time, Nash begins to have grandeur delusions that he is working for the national government, helping them to crack codes that no other mathematician is able to crack. Although......

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