A Beautiful Mind
Conflict and the prospect of its resolution or otherwise is at the heart of oral/visual texts.
To what extent do you agree?
Conflict and the prospect of its resolution or otherwise is at the heart of oral/visual texts. I agree with this statement. In the film A Beautiful Mind directed by Ron Howard, John Nash is a socially awkward character and is a bit different to everybody else. He then becomes diagnosed with schizophrenia, and he struggles to cope with the fact that some of his life never actually happened. Years later her overcomes his mental illness which is at the heart of the film.
John Nash comes off as a socially awkward character and from there we learn he is bit different to everybody else. It is in the first scene where we see John struggle with social situations. He is as the meet and greet at Princeton where instead of introducing himself like ‘Hi, I’m John Nash’, he insults a man about his tie. “That would a mathematic explanation for how bad your tie is.” John was not trying to be funny, but he wondered why everybody was laughing at him, but instead of engaging in conversation with them he just walked away. Another time that we see John struggle in a social situation is when he hits on the woman at the bar. “I don’t exactly know what I am required to say for you to have intercourse with me… but can we just assume I’ve said all that and just go straight to the sex.” We see John doesn’t really think before he says things, he just says the first thing that comes to his mind not caring about other people’s feelings. With John being socially awkward, we know that something is going to happen to him and so it is the build-up to the conflict in the film.
The conflict in the film is when John is diagnosed with schizophrenia which is an internal conflict. We see that John struggles to cope with the fact that his illusions; Charles, Parcher and Marcie are not real so he was forced to undergo a series of shock treatment. “Imagine that
To what extent do you agree?
Conflict and the prospect of its resolution or otherwise is at the heart of oral/visual texts. I agree with this statement. In the film A Beautiful Mind directed by Ron Howard, John Nash is a socially awkward character and is a bit different to everybody else. He then becomes diagnosed with schizophrenia, and he struggles to cope with the fact that some of his life never actually happened. Years later her overcomes his mental illness which is at the heart of the film.
John Nash comes off as a socially awkward character and from there we learn he is bit different to everybody else. It is in the first scene where we see John struggle with social situations. He is as the meet and greet at Princeton where instead of introducing himself like ‘Hi, I’m John Nash’, he insults a man about his tie. “That would a mathematic explanation for how bad your tie is.” John was not trying to be funny, but he wondered why everybody was laughing at him, but instead of engaging in conversation with them he just walked away. Another time that we see John struggle in a social situation is when he hits on the woman at the bar. “I don’t exactly know what I am required to say for you to have intercourse with me… but can we just assume I’ve said all that and just go straight to the sex.” We see John doesn’t really think before he says things, he just says the first thing that comes to his mind not caring about other people’s feelings. With John being socially awkward, we know that something is going to happen to him and so it is the build-up to the conflict in the film.
The conflict in the film is when John is diagnosed with schizophrenia which is an internal conflict. We see that John struggles to cope with the fact that his illusions; Charles, Parcher and Marcie are not real so he was forced to undergo a series of shock treatment. “Imagine that