Alicia : Here. Me. Your date?
The film’s narration end with end titles Figure 90 and 91 “Nash’s theories have influenced global trade negotiations, national labor relations, and
even breakthroughs in evolutionary biology. John and Alicia live in Princeton, New Jersey. John keeps regular office hours in the mathematics Department. He
still walks to campus everyday.” The end titles make closure interpretation that Nash improves enough to live a more normal life, even though his hallucinations
and delusions never disappear.
Figure 90 Figure 91
A Beautiful Mind film utilizes the narrative and cinematic technique to
describe the schizophrenia that is suffered by Nash. The choice of cinematic techniques is to emphasize the condition of Nash who suffers from schizophrenia.
A Beautiful Mind makes schizophrenia visible and suggests that those who
suffer from it are not unlike the rest of us. The film makes us wonder whether Nash, through his intense study, might have precipitated or hastened a condition
that was already inevitable. By embracing creative thought, the film asks, does one give conventional thinking up and with it one’s grasp on stability? Once that
door to change thinking is opened, are will and sanity potentially sacrificed?
In fact, Nash fight his way back and find a way to do his work, to be a husband and to function somewhat normally, even though his hallucinations and
delusions never disappear.
CHAPTER IV CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
A. Conclusion
The writer analyzes A Beautiful Mind film to understand how schizophrenia suffered by John Nash depicted in the film. The film utilizes all the
strategies in a film to deliver the message through narrative and cinematic techniques of the film. The structure of the story in A Beautiful Mind use standard
pattern. In the film, John Nash as the main character tries to reach his goal by finding his own original idea. At same point he does not realize that he is
schizophrenic. He faces all the problems and finally reaches his goal. He overcomes schizophrenia and attains a true sense of accomplishment by winning a
Nobel Prize. The plot and story is in chronological structure although there is a flashback.
The filmmaker manages to take the viewer on the exact same journey as the protagonist, John Nash. He prevents it from being a tale about people
watching some crazy guy on the street corner talking to himself. He does it to make the viewer believe what Nash believes and take their reality away from
them. A Beautiful Mind
tells a story that takes place over about forty years from 1940s to 1990s. The plot cues us to construct story duration which the viewer
infers from the main character’s journey. This entire period is presented in plot
duration. The screen duration is about 135 minutes. Here, an event that takes only a few moments in the story is stretched out to several minutes of the screen time
by means of the film technique. The uses of film techniques to manipulate time and space is to guide the viewer to the development of Nash’s life. The events
tend to occur in Princeton, New Jersey where Nash’s live. A Beautiful Mind
utilizes mise-en-scène, cinematography and sound to create its own style. The techniques of film like props, lighting, color schemes and
techniques of the shot to play the role to construct narrative. The choice of cinematic techniques creates a style to support and enhance narrative form, and
the schizophrenia which is suffered by the main character. The changes in cinematic techniques follow the development of narrative film.
The film tells the story of real-life mathematician John Nash’s struggle with schizophrenia from his college days to the time he is awarded the Nobel
Prize several decades later. With a scene-by-scene analysis, the writer points out Nash’s symptoms and behaviors to diagnose his schizophrenia. The writer
analyzes that Nash experiences the major symptoms characteristic of schizophrenia like, hallucinations, delusions, thought and speech disorder,
disturbance of emotional, disturbance of behavior, social withdrawal, and inability to sustain attention.
B. Suggestion
To analyze film or literary work, researchers should use the right theory or approach in order to have the right comprehension of the film or literary work
