A Beautiful Mind - Schizophrenia Hints

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This video looks at the hints Ron Howard provides in the first half of the film 'A Beautiful Mind' regarding the protagonist's schizophrenia. Note that this video contains spoilers.

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@sandro5535 3 жыл бұрын

2:05 Bonus. When Charles passes the door someone else was opening it. He never touched the door. Another is notice how Nash was socially adept with his hallucinations while he was totally awkward with everyone else.

@CrazyIshan69 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah.

@reanimationxp 5 ай бұрын

dang, that's a really creative detail. you've got a keen eye there. i'm surprised they didn't sneak in more shots of people looking at nash talking to himself. in the library they almost do as they're leaving but it would have been appropriate for someone to look at "them" talking at the window.

@brandontalley4786 6 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed this analysis! Never noticed the off camera audio before the reveal of each character. That's a nice touch.

@BellBottomBluesman 6 жыл бұрын

Brandon Talley Thanks for the feedback!

@CrazyIshan69 3 жыл бұрын

Same here. 😁

@felixweinlinger 4 жыл бұрын

Another clue is when Nash screams at Partcher and then Saul comes in and asks what happened and there is nothing there is was the point where I started to think maybe its all in his head

@yt-sh 5 жыл бұрын

''Wow, someone needed a hug" BTW this video deserves more views

@جعفرِ-ه4ي 3 жыл бұрын

The second time we meet the niece, I was gonna say to my brother who was watching the movie for the second time, that the niece hadn’t grew up during a large time period. He started talking to Charles about the “problem” he’s in and I passed it off as the filmmakers not caring about characters Ageing.

@reanimationxp 5 ай бұрын

I noticed that too and thought the same.

@markusnashorn1145 4 ай бұрын

Was there a long period of time? I thought his was months at most. One thing I noticed the second time was that Charles mentions having a niece already in the library, which I had completely forgotten in the park scene. BUT here he shows us her height already, not that of a baby, and she is exactly the same height he put his hand at when we first see her and THEN we were shown it was like 5 years later. I wonder how many people noticed THAT at the first viewing without knowing of the twist.

@panoC97 3 жыл бұрын

Also, another hint is when Charles showed how tall his niece is when he was talking with Nash in the library and then 5 years later, when Nash sees her for the first time, she's the same height.

@markusnashorn1145 4 ай бұрын

Did you catch that at the first viewing? I completely forgot he even mentions a niece in the library the first time.

@panoC97 4 ай бұрын

@@markusnashorn1145 Yeah and I remember it because I thought it was a continuity error or something

@markusnashorn1145 4 ай бұрын

@@panoC97 That's cool. Another comment mentions how they noticed she didn't grow between the first scene and the second at Harvard but I don't think much time passed between them? There were really five years between the library and her first scene.

@jollyroger6135 2 ай бұрын

The second time I watched this movie, I was surprised how many obvious clues I missed the first time. The niece remains a little girl and never ages. Also, from the beginning, nobody in the film acknowledges or speaks to Charlie except John Nash. Especially when he’s his college roommate and he’s constantly in the company of his coeds.

@calledmedarling 3 жыл бұрын

this analysis is incredible, I never noticed any of these. I literally only noticed the pigeons after reading about it, and that was it.

@bentonxavier5094 6 жыл бұрын

you explained this in every way I understood, I just couldn't put it into words

@yt-sh 5 жыл бұрын

thats intuition your (right) mind noticed it before 'you' (left mind - language)noticed it

@Metroid-rg9pn 23 күн бұрын

Another one--when Nash first meets Charles he mutters under his breath that he thought he didn’t have any roommates.

@Parasmunt Ай бұрын

Did you ever get scared looking at schizophrenics, as though their state of mind might be contagious and you might suddenly contract the habit of hearing voices or seeing things off of them?

@mihikadeo 4 жыл бұрын

You explained this in a way no other video I watched did. Excellent explanation.

@BellBottomBluesman 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind words. Glad you appreciated the video.

@gwyn7327 3 жыл бұрын

the pigeons omg that's a good detail

@reanimationxp 5 ай бұрын

yeah i'm shocked i didn't notice this

@harryspooner 2 жыл бұрын

This movie is one of my favourites and i have watched it multiple times without realising the things you have pointed out. Really good work

@CrazyIshan69 3 жыл бұрын

Two more I found - 1 : When John beckons loudly to Patcher following their rift, a puzzled Sol peers out of the door and curiously asks what the deal is as though he saw or heard nothing. 2 : Anyone noticed John is the _only_ student at the university we spot Charles interacting with?

@BrianLe-yf6fe 2 ай бұрын

To me, that fact his friend doesn't change at all

@LoveandLessons_Cambles 5 жыл бұрын

Wow man! I’m blown away by these interpretations

@BellBottomBluesman 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the positive feedback!

@Scott-fy7fm 2 ай бұрын

Adter waking up from a coma I also hallucinated the existence of a particular doctor who didn't exist, I gradually realized he never interacted with anyone else and one day just told him I knew he didn't exist. He stopped speaking to me and just stopped showing up a few days later. Pretty weird

@georgewhite2045 4 жыл бұрын

Very good vid but you didn’t mention when parched appears on the steps there is no door swing or door sound just him popping out of thin air ! 3:12

@BellBottomBluesman 4 жыл бұрын

That's a good observation. The more you watch the film, the more things you notice.

@CrazyIshan69 3 жыл бұрын

Not to mention, the door can't have been opened and closed and gone still that rapidly.

@GeorgiaAndrea Жыл бұрын

7:27 I like the touch where even that guy at the side (a patient) was surprised at another patient's frantic (John).

@Archeo69 5 жыл бұрын

Video definitely deserves more viewings, nice work 👍🏻

@nightingale2424 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if the director was schizophrenic because he did an amazing job.

@johncoreyfarrell 3 ай бұрын

The Harvard University scene was shot at Manhattan College in the Bronx, NY. I walked up those stairs many times.

@uniqueurl 4 жыл бұрын

Its a major miracle as christopher plumer's character told us... " Problem is in your head, in the first place " . Jennifer Connelly's wife character is the one did that major miracle by letting him continue the job in university. These all conveys, medicine alone wont cut.

@mihailmishev7364 4 жыл бұрын

And if he was like the kid from sixth sense, seeing a three ghosts, of his roomate, a secret agent and a ghost of a little girl, and the psychiatrist mistakenly diagnosed him with schizophrenia??? Think about that...

@offjumpol5376 3 жыл бұрын

This is exactly what ive been thinking all this time

@reanimationxp 5 ай бұрын

hallucinations (shed for example).. checkmate.

@markusnashorn1145 4 ай бұрын

@@offjumpol5376 Given how he NEVER had hallucinations of real people (like say, conspiring against him, with Rosen and Alicia, which would be common for real schizophrenics), how he never imagined the REAL general coming back to him, instead dreamed up another person, how he never hallucinated them interacting with anyone else, I think evil spirits might not be far off. I mean seriously, everything Alicia, Rosen and the others say to him is real, never a break from reality there and they tell him, those other people don't exist and we can't see or hear them. I thought, this should actually be really easy for him to get through this compared to real Paranoia. He accepts they are not real, but they still talk to him, but still this is more like ignoring ghosts or spirits, yes annoying, but he shouldn't be arguing with them anymore about how they are real. You could say some scenes with Charles are more meant to be metaphorical, like you can't ignore me, but everything before was supposed to be literal! (Still wonder if that desk scene was real and if the tragedy would have been John giving up on his illusions if not for Charles) I mean he even hallucinates touching them, like they are in real time and space and invisible to everyone else. It is not just an imagined event for him. He has to talk and touch them. Also why couldn't he imagine Marcie getting older? His disease is so specific it was actually really easy to get over it, compared to how hallucinations (real or fiction) seem to work...

@louisaparker Жыл бұрын

I just watched the movie for the second time. I still didn't notice the pigeon detail.

@NyalBurns 4 ай бұрын

Great analysis.

@jackjax7921 2 жыл бұрын

I feel bad for this but when Parcher came back to hunt John is hilarious.

@TheHalcyonView 5 ай бұрын

Beautifully minded analysis.

@franzkiefer9303 5 жыл бұрын

excellent video

@samikshaanasane4549 3 жыл бұрын

Man the pegions!!

@kevreads3269 Ай бұрын

Beautifully done vid.

@teghanshaer2005 15 күн бұрын

Here’s a tip: What’s real, you write on a blue piece of paper. What’s in his head, on an orange piece of paper.

@CrazyIshan69 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome video!

@jediskunk67 5 ай бұрын

One thing I see is when "Marcee" is running through the birds, they do not flinch.

@JamesstarrCreatorGod300 2 ай бұрын

6th Day Arnold Swartznegger (Big Brother).

@giorgos_karidopoulos 4 жыл бұрын

This might be a stupid question but did he ever go to the Pentagon or not?

@BellBottomBluesman 4 жыл бұрын

It's not a stupid question. It's hard to know for sure, since the audience is typically shown things from Nash's unreliable point of view, but I'd say that the initial visit to the Pentagon is real. That scene seems quite grounded in reality, and other characters seem to know about him being summoned. But the Parcher stuff afterwards is all in his mind.

@giorgos_karidopoulos 4 жыл бұрын

@@BellBottomBluesman Oh ok I understand now thanks for replying!!!

@reanimationxp 5 ай бұрын

@@BellBottomBluesman I also wasn't sure and this video cemented it being real for me, so thanks for that.