A Beautiful Mind

     The movie, A Beautiful Mind represented the concepts of genius, insanity and madness in the mathematician John Nash. It was as if the movie meant for us to see how some of the most brilliant people lacked in other areas of mental ability. I am not saying that all genius’s are insane or mad but it has been said that there is a fine line between the two. In my opinion to be a genius means you are extra-ordinary meaning a genius is far beyond an ordinary or “normal” person. In the movie John Nash is depicted as being brilliant in the way he chooses to solves various equations and problems. This sort of use of the mind only comes with being a true genius. Most genius’s like John Nash think in a way that no one else thinks, they think in ways that are so far “outside of the box” most fail to even comprehend. It is as if to be a genius one must truly be somewhat “insane”. It has been said that “true genius requires insanity” not in the sense of being crazy but simply thinking like no other. A genius, just like John Nash; has the ability to solve a problem or arrive at a conclusion with an approach that no everyday individual would use. A Beautiful Mind presents genius, insanity and madness in a very interesting and intriguing way.  It depicts both the struggle and hardships John Nash encountered in securing his genius and extraordinary knowledge from the instability of his own madness. He, despite having a better grip of reality; never seem to truly overcome his paranoid schizophrenia. John Nash always saw the characters his mind created’ despite his lack of acknowledgment toward them. A Beautiful Mind depicted the remarkable realization that no matter how intelligent or unintelligent a person may be, our mind truly controls us, we do not /can not fully control our mind.