How is disability portrayed in A Beautiful Mind?

Answer 1

A Beautiful Mind (2001) is based loosely on the biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., a Nobel Prize-winning mathematician. If you are not familiar with his life's story, you will be watching the first part of the movie only from Nash's point of view. It is not until after his wife Alicia notices his erratic behavior and alerts medical authorities that the viewer becomes aware that Nash is delusional. Nash is a paranoid schizophrenic. It is here that the viewer realizes that some of the characters that Nash interacts with do not exist. The story continues with his treatment and the affect the treatment has on him and his family life. The portrayal of the disease's affect on Nash is somewhat gritty, but the movie ends on a relatively happy note.