This movie was based on the life of John Nash a mathematician and professor of Princeton University. Who also won a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994. He also suffered from Paranoid Schizophrenia,through his anguish, we gain knowledge of a life with mental illness and how affects every component of his life and those close to himThe movie starts with his early years at Princeton University but he is not very popular around his peers, except for his roommate and friend "Charles".
In the part where he is in the Pentagon you can start seeing that he is imagining things, he sees a man that no one else sees so you can see that gradually he is starting to get worse and once he got marry and once his was got pregnant , he developed it at once. His illusion was that he was working for the CIA.
It was sad to see him going through the treatments of Electroconvulsive Therapy and to see his wife also suffer to see her husband become a ghost of what he used to be, I can relate to one scene......

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Title: John Nash
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