Ages and Stages Second Half: Fifth Entry **

"A Beautiful Mind" was a movie that tells a story about a schizophrenic named John Nash.  John faced many hardships with his schizophrenia such as delusions, paranoia and hallucinations.  An example of John's schizophrenia was when John has one of his delusions where his "boss", the spy named William Parcher, is about to shoot Alice because "she knows too much."  Soon after this situation, John is taken to the Psychiatric Ward, despite being shoved down by John, Alice stayed with John because she knew that John had a problem.  My thought of the worst delusion that John had was when Alice discovered the shed, where John had kept all of his "decoding" work for the C.I.A that he believed he was apart of, and ran back to the house to discover that John left their baby in the tub for his "roomate", Charles Hermann to watch.  Charles Hermann was of course, one of John's delusions.

Although John was the main character, John was not the only one that was affected by his Schizophrenia.  Alice Nash, John's wife, was with John throughout his schizophrenia and showed tremendous dedication to John.  Several examples of her dedication include when Alice visited John at the Psychiatric Ward.  Another example of he dedication was when she was pushed to the ground while holding her baby.  Despite being pushed down, she supported John and stayed with him.  The final example that I thought that Alice would have left John for, was when Alice tried helping John by giving him pills but John lied to Alice and hid the pills so he could continue his "secret decoding work."  Although the movie was about John, John would have never been the man he was, if he didn't have the support of Alice.