As a graduate student at Princeton University, John Nash is dedicated to make a contribution to serve in the world of mathematics. After graduate school, Dr. Nash turns into teaching, where he meets Alicia, a former student and now wife. In the meanwhile, the government asks Nash for his help by breaking codes with the Soviets, which leads to Nash getting involved in a conspiracy plot. Nash grows to be more and more paranoid only to find out that he has been diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenia. It is now up to Alicia and Dr. Rosen to help Nash recover to a strong mental state and help regain his status as a great and talented mathematician.
John Nash has difficulty interacting with simple day-to-day situations in society. One specific scene involves a man coming up to Dr. Nash but Dr. Nash first asks a student if they can see the man as well. Nash then apologizes to the man and explains that he gets skeptical of people he has never met before due to his schizophrenia and his hallucinations.
A scene that best explains societies perception on Nash’s disability is when Nash goes back to Princeton and approaches his old friend and rival, Martin Hansen, who is now the head of the Princeton mathematics department. Hansen grants Nash permission to work out the library and audit classes. The scene ends with him storming out of the library and screaming to his hallucinations telling them they are not real. Other students who are around Nash look at him with confusion because they obviously cannot see what Nash is seeing. Another small scene on society’s behavior on Nash is when Nash is walking to the library and he is holding his briefcase in a weird position and students are mocking the way he walks and laughing at him at the same time.
Nash gets diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia when his wife, Alicia, starts noticing his erratic behavior. This leaves her with no