Synopsis "A Beautiful Mind"

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1.      Main character of a beautiful mind story         :

Ø  John Nash

2.      First Complication

John Nash have antisocialist with each other.

3.      What happen with main character?

John Nash is genius person but he has hallucination disease

4.      The synopsis of A Beautiful Mind story

John Nash is a new graduate student in Princeton University. He is a recipient of the prestigious Carnegie Prize for mathematics. He was promised a single room, his roommate named Charles, that becomes his best friend. Nash also meets a group of other promising math and science graduate students, Martin Hansen, Sol, and Bender.

But one day, Nash makes a thesis but his lecture unaccept it. He becomes frustrated. But Charles tries to help him so he asks him to go to bar with him.  At the bar he meets a woman but because of his attitude the woman angry to him.

Nash tries to correct his thesis and begin to get some idea to develop it. Because he is under increasing pressure so he goes to the bar again to find new inspiration. A particularly harsh rejection from a woman at the bar is what ultimately inspires his fruitful work in the concept of governing dynamics, a theory in mathematical economics.

After the conclusion of Nash studies as a student at Princeton, he accepts a prestigious appointment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), along with his friends Sol and Bender.

Five years later after he graduated from Princeton University he becomes lecture at MIT, he places a particularly interesting problem on the chalkboard that he dares his students to solve. When his student Alicia Larde comes to his office to discuss the problem, at that time Nash get falling in love to his student and eventually they get married.

On a return visit to Princeton, Nash meets his roommate Charles and meets Charles young niece named Marcee, whom he adores. He also meets a mysterious Department of Defense agent, William Parcher. Nash is invited to a secret United States Department of Defense facility in the Pentagon for being code breaker in that Department. Nash is able to decipher the code in his right hand.

            Parcher observes Nashs activity from above, while Parcher also observes Nash behind a screen. Parcher gives Nash a new duty to look for patterns in magazines and newspapers, for break a Soviet plot. He must write a report of his findings and place them in a specified mailbox. After being chased by the Russians and an exchange of gunfire, Nash becomes increasingly paranoid and begins doesn’t consistent with his duty being a lecture.

Alicia informs a psychiatric hospital because unusual behavior of his husband. Later, while teaching at Harvard University, Nash realizes that he is being watched by a hostile group of people. Nash tries to go out but suddenly he was catched and he is forcibly sedated and sent to a psychiatric facility. He thinks a group of people who sent him to a psychiatric facility as Soviet kidnappers. 

Alicia, desperate to help her husband, and the psychiatric facility ask her to go to Nash’s old place in Princeton to check the mailbox and retrieves the never-opened "top secret" documents that Nash had delivered there when he was in Princeton. When confronted with this evidence, Nash is finally convinced that he has been hallucinating. The Department of Defense agent William Parcher and Nash's secret assignment to decode Soviet messages was in fact all a delusion. Even more surprisingly, Nash's friend Charles and his niece Marcee are also only products of Nash's mind.

After a painful series of insulin shock therapy sessions, Nash can go home but with an agreement, he must agrees to take antipsychotic medication. However, the medition create negative side-effects that affect his relationship with his wife and, most dramatically, his intellectual capacity. Nash getting frustrated, Nash secretly stops eating his medication and hoards his pills, but it’ll make him hallucinating again.

Alicia thinks that his husband getting better now, so she asks Nash to bathing his son while she’s hanging laundry in the backyard. When Alicia is hanging laundry in the backyard and observes that the back gate is open. She discovers that Nash has turned an abandoned shed in a nearby grove of trees into an office for his work for Parcher. Upon realizing what has happened, Alicia runs into the house to confront Nash and barely saves their child from drowning in the bathtub. When she confronts him, Nash claims that his friend Charles was watching their son. Alicia runs to the phone to call the psychiatric hospital for emergency assistance. Parcher urges Nash to kill his wife, but Nash angrily refuses to do such a thing. After arguing with Parcher, Nash accidentally knocks Alicia to the ground. Afterwards, Alicia flees the house in fear with their child, but Nash steps in front of her car to prevent her from leaving. After a moment, Nash realizes that Marcee is a figment of his hallucinations because she has remained the same age since the day he met her. He tells Alicia, "She never gets old." Only then does he accept that all three people are, in fact, part of his hallucinations, and he tells to both of them that he wouldn’t speak to them anymore.

Nash grows older and approaches his old friend and intellectual rival Martin Hansen, now head of the Princeton mathematics department, who grants him permission to work out of the library and audit classes, though the university will not provide him with his own office. Though Nash still suffers from hallucinations and mentions taking newer medications, he is ultimately able to live with and largely ignore his psychotic episodes. He asks his student humorously to ensure that any new acquaintances are in fact real people, not hallucinations.

Nash eventually earns the privilege of teaching again. He is honored by his fellow professors for his achievement in mathematics, and goes on to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his revolutionary work on game theory. Nash and Alicia are about to leave the auditorium in Stockholm, when John sees Charles, Marcee and Parcher standing and smiling. Alicia asks John, "What's wrong?" John replies, "Nothing." With that, they both leave the auditorium.