Background of the Study

The story begins when Nash in 1948 starts his study in Princeton University. Nash’s friends are Martin Hansen, Sol, and Bender. He meets his roommate Charles, a literature student, who soon becomes his best friend. During the whole time that Nash studied in Princeton, he was trying to come up with his own original idea. He makes a fruitful work in the concept of governing dynamics, a theory in mathematical economics. After the conclusion of Nashs studies as a student at Princeton, he accepts a prestigious appointment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, along with his friends Sol and Bender. Five years later while teaching a class on Calculus , he meets Alicia, a student with whom he falls in love and eventually marries. Nash’s life change when he encounters a mysterious Department of Defense agent, William Parcher. Nash is invited to a United States Department of Defense facility in The Pentagon to crack a complex encryption of an enemy telecommunication. Things get worse after Nash and Alicia married. Nash’s job as a secret agent makes him feels in danger day after day. Finally, while giving a lecture, Nash realizes that he is being watched by a hostile group of people. Although he attempts to flee, he sent to a psychiatric facility . A psychiatrist reveals that the Department of Defense agent William Parcher and Nashs secret assignment to decode Soviet messages was in fact all a delusion . Even more surprisingly, Nashs friend Charles and his niece Marcee are also only products of Nashs mind. The writer is interested to view A Beautiful Mind, which a biography based on the true life story of a mathematical prodigy, John Forbes Nash Jr. The film is a brilliant and touching portrayal of the destruction of the mind by schizophrenia. The schizophrenia of the main character is shown from film’s narration and cinematic techniques of film form. That is why the writer would like to analyze John Nash as of the main character who suffers from schizophrenia in A Beautiful Mind film.

B. Focus of the Study

This research is focused on how the main character, John Nash, suffers from schizophrenia depicted in A Beautiful Mind film, directed by Ron Howard.

C. Research Questions

1. How do the narrative structure and the cinematic techniques of A Beautiful Mind film describe John Nash’s schizophrenia? 2. How is the schizophrenia of the main character depicted in the film?

D. Objectives of the Research

The objective of this research is to analyze and to understand the narrative structure of A Beautiful Mind film; the cinematic techniques of the film; and the schizophrenia suffered by John Nash as the main character in the film.

E. Significances of the Research

Through this research, the writer hopes that research would be beneficial to readers in terms of it is information and knowledge. It is also hoped that the result of this research can be used for the English Department, Faculty of Humanities of State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta as one of the references in the studying of narrative in different medium. Besides, the writer expects that this research can give understanding about narrative and psychology in film.

F. Research Methodology

1. Method The writer uses qualitative method in doing this research. The writer also uses the analytic descriptive writing to analyze the relationship between psychological approach of the main character in the film with its narrative and its form. 2. Technique of Data Analysis In this research, the writer uses analytic descriptive writing in analyzing this film. The writer collected the data from several sources that related to the study. In narrative film, like A Beautiful Mind, narrative form and cinematic elements become language to express ideas or event in the film. 3. Unit of Analysis Analysis unit that is used in this research is the DVD film A Beautiful Mind directed by Ron Howard released on 2002.