Episode 067: A Real Life Schizophrenia Experience — A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Join Alex as he discusses wonderfully brilliant biopic of John Forbes Nash, Jr. in A Beautiful Mind (2001). The movie focuses on John Nash’s struggle with finding an original idea to make his mark while also battling schizophrenia and the paranoid delusions and hallucinations it brought. The episode takes a an accuracy approach, since we are talking about an actual historical figure. What was true about Joh Nash’s experience with the psychological disorder and how did director Ron Howard portray that for the audience in the film?

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