A film review: A beautiful mind Part 1 The film A Beautiful Mind is based on the life of John Nash, a Nobel laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard and it stars Russell Crowe as John Nash. The film won four Oscars in 2002 as Best Movie and Best Director. The film is set in the USA in the 1950s. It was filmed when Russell Crowe had just won the Oscar for Best Actor in Gladiatore. The film is about John Nash who is a young math student. He’s a person rather strange and unsociable. When he arrives at Princeton University to get a Ph.D., his friend is only Charles who is his roommate. During his studies, Nash thinks about only his theory named as Game Theory which it will award the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics many years later. After the Ph.D. Nash works as professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston. But brillance and talent’s Nash are known not only by academic people, but also by some Pentagon’s agents. In fact, he is invited to the Pentagon to decipher codes mentally: we are in the Cold War’s years so Nash’s capability is very crucial to decipher enemy Soviet Telecommunication. Nash considers his usual duties at MIT uninteresting and a waste of talent, so he is pleased to land a hand at a mysterious supervisor, William Parcher of the Departement of Defense. Now his job is look for patterns in magazines and newspapers to discover a Soviet attack and stop it. Meanwhile, a student, Alicia, ask him to go out for dinner. Then they fall in love, he proposes to her and they marry. The searching of patterns in magazines and newspapers becomes harder and harder, and Nash becomes increasingly obsessive because he believes Russian agents are following him everywhere. Once night, while he’s working, Parcher pick him up and they go away by car because some Russian agents are following them. It starts a car chase and the Russian agents try to shoot them. When Nash gets home, Alicia sees Nash is really terrified because he believes that his and Alicia’s life are in danger.