A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind is basically a biography about John Nash, who was a brilliant mathematician that eventually became schizophrenic. In his own mind, Nash had an image about how his life was. At the beginning we think that everything that is happening is real, but we then realize that it was all a part of his imagination. The people he sees and meets, are not seen or heard by others. But what I personally think is so brilliant about this movie is the way that the audience firstly thinks that everything is real. So to us, people he saw were actually there, they were reality. But when we learn about his schizophrenia, our idea of reality changes. We now think that this picture was all painted in his mind, and is not truly reality. This movie basically conveys the concept that reality is not one defined viewpoint. Reality is a concept that is often viewed as something standard and agreed upon. This movie examines how reality can be different from one person to another. At the end of the day, our reality is based on the information that we are given and choose to accept. It might well be that there is a whole new race of 'super humans' that live underground. Many people would respond to this saying that that is impossible..."no one lives there, and thats reality." But what is reality? We do not think an idea like this one, or many other things (aliens etc) are real because we have not found them or seen them. So to us, the reality is that no one lives underneath the earth. But does this really guarantee that there isn't? We don't really know, because our reality is very much limited by the information that we have. & even that can be different from person to person, as can be seen from this movie and many others such as Minority Report and The Truman Show.