"A Beautiful Mind" is a biographer movie about the 20th century great mathematician John Forbes Nash, which is about how he is suffering from mental illness. Because of his love for his wife Alicia, through his tenacious perseverance, he still tried to overcome the illusion, and finally won the Nobel Prize in Economics. Biography is a type of movie that I really like. It is based on reality and has a certain degree of drama. Because of the constraints of the characters themselves, how to make reasonable imagination on the basis of reality becomes an important issue, and this is also an important criterion for evaluating the quality of a biography. A good biographer, with its vivid and vivid details, can reproduce a real historical figure on the silver screen. "A Beautiful Mind" is such an excellent biographer that successfully reproduces the legendary life of a great man, John Nash, and more importantly, it reflects the world and greatness of the unknown scientists. This movie is not only a wonderful biography of Nash, but also a song of love, which is all logic and reason. This was the best film in the 74th Academy Awards in 2002. It is really deserved.

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First of all, the film has a lot of articles on the name of the film "A beautiful mind". "Mind" has both a brain and a heart in English. In this movie, it has its dual meaning. On the one hand, it refers to John Nash's clever brain. On the other hand, it refers to his beautiful heart. The combination of the two is the perfect fusion of reason and sensibility. The strong love for his wife can make him determined to break his own illusion, and he maintains a high degree of rationality to recognize that the person in the illusion is not real. Since it is "A Beautiful Mind", the whole film is of course a warm color, and very suitable for expressing a warm theme, giving people a sense of comfort intoxicated in the story. It is said that in order to create a "golden" effect in the scene of the film's early campus, the film crew also used a low-contrast film. It is also unique in the design of lines. In order to express Nash's straightforwardness, when the man confessed to Alicia, he said: "I think you are very attractive. You show me that you also like me. However, traditional trust still needs us. I have been doing a lot of platonic love before I have sex. I am developing in this area, but in fact, what I really want to do is to have sex with you as soon as possible.”

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After that, Alicia kissed Nash and this performance compared with Nash’s previous slap in the face of this sentence. Nash finally found the true love of his life. There were so many touching places in the play that when Alicia cried and told Nash that these were just his hallucinations. Nash's world collapsed in an instant, and he walked away incredulously. Nash wants to prove that these are true. He scratches his wrist with his nails, but he can't find the chip. He looked at the doctors who came to him and said, "It has disappeared." On the night of the rainstorm, Nash’s wife saw Nash, who was troubled by the illusion, rejecting herself and finally burst into tears. I believe that the audience who saw the movie was all moving. He lost his ability to love even because of mental illness. The most touching place is that when he was most frustrated in college, he dreamed of seeing a group of professors give another pen to teach them. This is the highest recognition a person can get. And when he was sitting in the cafe, the people around him stood up and put their pens in front of him one by one. Nash’s eyes finally burst into tears.

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Love as the main line of the story always runs through the film. Although the front part of the story is very dull, t in the second half it has turned sharply, and at the moment when schizophrenia was confirmed, it reached its climax and then returned to the warmth. It can be said that it is a wave of unrest. There are three fictional characters in the illusion of Nash in the movie: Charles, William, and Marcee. They are not empty dreams, but in fact, there are traces in Nash's growth experience. Social psychologist Schutz proposed a three-dimensional theory of interpersonal needs in 1958. He believes that each individual has three basic needs in the process of interpersonal interaction, which are inclusive needs, dominating needs and emotional needs. All three basic needs must be met at the same time. Any need to be satisfied will cause individual psychological trauma, and this unmet need may be found in the virtual. The same is true in the movie. In the hallucination, Charles was imagined as a roommate of Nash, who always understood and accompanied him when he was frustrated. William was an official of the Ministry of Defense, asking him to complete his mission to contribute to the country. Marcee was Charles's niece, an innocent and lovely little girl.

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These three actually reflect Nash's emotional needs. Because Nash lacks interpersonal relationships for a long time, but because of his own pride, he is often misunderstood by others or even cold-eyed. Therefore, Charles represents this desire to be understood and tolerated, eager to be unconditionally supported. William is called "Big Brother" by Nash, which represents Nash's urgent need to be affirmed, hoping that he can achieve great career. Nash has few emotions, and he is actually a person who lacks love.Therefore, Marcee represents the need and desire for emotions in the heart of Nash. In fact, he has never overcome his own fantasies. He just chose not to pay attention to it and chose to accept the existence of these hallucinations. This illusion is always accompanied by Nash's life, which also symbolizes that this is a profound loneliness from the depths of his soul. Therefore, in terms of the plot, it is completely designed according to Nash's experience and psychology. It is very reasonable, and it increases the depth of the story, which is more conducive to the part of the character's inner heart. Nash knows that the person he loves really exists, and he really lives in reality. Therefore, he gave up living in fantasy, trying to accept himself and not letting himself be moved by illusion. In reality, he is also known as "the first person to overcome schizophrenia with reason." But outside the movie, there is no such thing as a good story. On May 23, 2015, the 86-year-old Nash and his wife died in a car accident when they took a taxi in New Jersey on Saturday. Although this ending is a bit cruel, I think this is the best destination, and the two will never be separated again.

My Score is 8.9

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Movie URL: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/453-a-beautiful-mind?language=en-US
Critic: AAA