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The movie, A Beautiful Mind, tells the true story of Princeton professor John Nash’s lifelong struggle with schizophrenia. The movie opens with John Nash as a graduate student at Princeton. It is at this point in his life that he meets his friend Charles, who is later discovered to be a hallucination. When Nash graduates and goes off to work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Charles does not come with him. Instead, his hallucinations subside and he meets a woman, Alicia Larde and they soon become married. It isn’t until he returns to Princeton that he is reunited with Charles, who is accompanied now by his niece Marcee, also a figment of Nash’s imagination. On his return to Princeton, Nash is invited to a secret United States Department of defense facility at the Pentagon to crack a complex enemy encryption. When Nash is able to solve the code, William Parcher, a new hallucination, gives him the assignment to look for patterns in the news to help foil Soviet plans, and to report his findings. Things take a terrible turn for Nash and his disorder, when he is â€Å"chased by R...