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The Reel Life Of A Genius
Title: The Reel Life Of A Genius
Category: Entertainment / Movies & Film
Details: Words: 672 | Pages: 2.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Reel Life Of A Genius
In the movie A Beautiful Mind, Russell Crowe played John Nash, a brilliant mathematician who developed the game theory of economics, for which he later won the Nobel Prize in 1994. At the age of 31 he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and suffered a mental breakdown. Because of his hallucinations and bizarre behavior, he was institutionalized and put on anti-psychotic drugs. He stopped taking them however, after he discovered that they reduced his sex drive, confused his …showed first 75 words of 672 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 672 total…to relieve patients of the terrible stereotypes and attitudes that these patient’s experience.
The film’s biggest accomplishment is the ability to help us understand what it would be like, at least to some degree, to be schizophrenic. In summation, I would give the movie four stars out of five for its general value and entertainment and four stars out of five for its value to abnormal psychology. Thumbs up to A Beautiful Mind!
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