The gaps in the storyline leave the viewer without key details. In the film, Nash gets slapped in the face each time he talks to a woman before he meets Alicia Larde. In actuality, Nash had a child with another woman before meeting Larde. Nash disowned the child, refusing to allow his name to appear on the child’s birth certificate, and abandoned the mother, failing to pay child support. In the movie, Nash places letters he created for the CIA in a mailbox in front of an abandoned building. Along with the letters, the real Nash actually traveled to Europe several times to try to meet top officials of the United Nations to spread the …show more content…
Although the film leaves out important information in Nash’s life, it outlines his positive and negative symptoms and covers the difficulties of living with the disease. He learned to live without the medication that most schizophrenics require and to continue his work as a mathematician. The stigma surrounding schizophrenia and other mental illnesses is also depicted in the film as bystanders react to Nash’s bizarre actions. Paranoid schizophrenia may contain difficult symptoms, but fortunately for Nash, he was ultimately able to recognize fantasy from