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Nash : “Well, I met a girl.”
Charles : “No a human girl? Homo sapiens? A biped?”
Nash : “yup. And contrary to all probabilities, she finds me
attractive on a number of different levels.” Charles
: “Really? God, that’s wonderful. There’s no accounting for taste, is there?”
Nash : “Should I marry her?”
Charles : “Oh God, right.”
Finally, with some Charles’ suggestions, Nash feels steady with his decision to marry Alicia.
4.2.2 Charles Plays Role as a Familiar and Caring Figure.
John Nash is a personality which is bad in relationship with others. No one pays attention to him, the only one who knows him much is Charles Herman
his hallucination. So in this movie, Charles Herman acts as his best friend and always stays beside him whenever he needs. Here is the supporting scene:
Charles : “You’ve been here for two days.” Nash :“Hanson just published another paper and I can’t even find a
topic for my doctorate.” Charles : “Well, on the bright side, youve invented window art.”
The conversation as quoted above takes place in the library, where Nash during two days was there to try his formula in order to invent the topic
for his doctorate. From the statement above, we can see that Nash is very desperate. He writes all the formula in the window that looks like writing in
window. But he does not produce anything. Then Nash explaines to Charles that all he writes is the formula he
tries to solve. The first formula is about people playing football, the second is formula about the pigeons fighting over bread crumbs, and Nash also counts
the formula of mugging which make Charles so surprised because he does not
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help the woman who is mugged but he just watching and do nothing. It shows that Nash is indifferent to social norms and he has lack of sensitivity with
others. This is the supporting scene: Charles : “John, you watched a mugging? That’s weird”
Nash : “in competitive behavior someone always loses.” Charles : “Well, my niece knows that, John, and shes about this high.”
Nash
: “If I could derive an equilibrium where prevalence is a non- singular event, where nobody loses. Can you imagine the effect
that would have on conflict scenarios and arms negotiation? On currency exchange?
Charles : “When did you last eat? You know food?” Nash
: “You have no respect for cognitive reverie, you know that?” If we pay attention to the quotation above, Charles is showing his care
to Nash. He knows that Nash is forgetting his duty, to keep eating just because of his work for his doctorate topic. As a close friend, Charles also reminds him
of being more sensitive with the surrounding, practicing his sensitivity and helping others, not just watching a mugging.
4.2.3 Charles Functions as an Inspirational and Invigorating Figure.
