A BEAUTIFUL MIND REFLECTION

The movie opens with John having a delusion of a room-mate; Charles. We don’t even know it’s a delusion at first and we really see Charles bring John out of his shell. John needed someone to help him be a normal grad student and no one “real” was around, plus john was not really willing to put himself out there. So Charles represents John unwillingness to venture out which greatly contributed to his madness. Its ironic how until we find out that Charles is a dillusion, his role seems quite the opposite. He drinks with Charles to “drown the ice” between them. So are we to understand, after knowing that Charles was in fact a delusion, that John took up drinking on his own at least often? Did that contribute to his “Degenerative” state? Why don’t we know anything about before his schitzophrenia started? It leaves me with a lot of questions. It started around 1954 and so the fact that his delusions have to do with mcharthy and the red scare and the atomic bomb makes sense within the period but why did that specific delusion somehow get a hold of John? Or was he just conceited about his own genius? If that is the case, it says something about ego and genius. John could not handle being that brilliant and having no social life but he also could not handle having a social life. Something about him was missing and when people exist with great parts of themselves missing, this is when they are open to all sorts of toxins. Dillusions can be considered toxins and they were making john very sick but he was able to fight them and become the boss which on some level he must have been all along. He either let these dilusions in or created them. He did this all to himself. And that is a funny thing about madness. I like that this movie depicts a case of madness that is overcome. Because so often it is like a death sentence to life as you know it just like we see with what the doctor characters in the movie had to say with their hopeless attitudes. I think This movie shows that faith is more powerful than any diagnosis. 


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