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With the movie, “A Beautiful Mind,” Ron Howard and Universal Studios provide an opportunity to learn about the illness, schizophrenia, a disease of the brain that impairs an individual’s perceptions, concentration, and social interaction and, thus, can be quite disabling. It is characterized by a person’s perception of reality which can be very different from the way most other people perceive the same reality. This guide will assist the reader, while viewing the movie, in learning about this illness and its effect on people who have it, their families and their friends. To make the best use of this guide:

1.VIEW THE FILM IN ITS ENTIRETY, then

2.READ THE GUIDE, SECTION BY SECTION, AS YOU REVIEW THE CORRESPONDING SCENE FROM THE FILM.

The power of this movie is that it is written and filmed from the perspective of a person with schizophrenia as well as from the perspective of others. Thus, it presents not only what is observed about John externally through society’s reality; it also demonstrates what drives John internally through his unique reality. It demonstrates how an action or behavior of a person with schizophrenia can appear to be bizarre to an observer while appearing so appropriate to the person experiencing it.