Panofsky Method, Movie A Wonderful Mind

Panofsky Method, movie a wonderful mind

A brilliant mind based on Erwin Panofsky’s theory. It is an American drama movie of 2001. Based on Sylvia Nasar’s novel, which was a candidate for the Pulitzer Prize in 1998, he tells the story of John Forbes Nash, who was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994. With the direction of the film Ron Howard and the writing of the script was in charge of Akiva Goldsman. Among the cast of the film the main character is Russell Crowe.

Main characters:

• John Nash is an outstanding student at Princeton University, brilliant for mathematical formulas application. His main objective was to obtain a doctorate.

Secondary characters:

• Alicia Nash, managed to conquer Nash for her beauty and intelligence. Alicia, is fundamental in Nash’s life, since it helps him face his illness.
• Charles Hermann, a character with a personality opposed to Nash, Charles Hermann is outgoing, fun and charlatan, is his faithful friend.
• Marcee, niece of Charles, in charge of him because his mother had died in a car accident
• Doctor Rosen is the psychiatrist, in charge of diagnosing and carrying out Nash treatment.

Iconological analysis

It is observed in the film according to the social activities of the protagonist, we can see that you are in its years of university activity. This spends most of his life studying;He spends days without eating trying to find a wonderful idea that made him excel from others.

After fighting and studying hard to obtain recognition with a revolutionary theory in economics and thus manages to take possession as a professor of a university and in his work as a teacher he knows a woman who falls in love with. Then start working for the government as an analyst for spy patterns. He marries the woman who was her crush but spends most of her time in the office and feels persecuted and uneasy does not feel safe in her own home and her working life is affected and is finally admitted to a clinic.

The protagonist is born from professional parents who stimulate the innate skills of his son, doing work with him at home and sending him to schools of superior category for his academic preparation, he is a lonely man without family without friends and completely asylum, he did not feel integratedWith the people around him and his world revolved around the numbers, always trying to explain a mathematical relationship that would explain the behavior of things.

He maintains a social circle focused on work and academic relationships but in turn shares with his colleagues in the faculty during the time he studies his doctorate, he was a man who made it difficult to control his emotions. In the course of the film it is observed that he has several friends products of his imagination as well as his work with the agent “Pacher” therefore all his conversation themes are for his imaginary friends.

The most impressive is like Jhon after presenting hallucinations throughout his life is able to differentiate the reality from hallucinations, starting a constant struggle to try to differentiate the hallucinations of reality, until he finally managesThey made their life difficult, learned to live with them and be able to cope with a more appropriate social life.

Iconographic analysis

The film tells the story of John Nash famous American mathematician who suffered from schizophrenia and that with his theories won the Nobel Prize in the economy in 1994. Nash was an asylum man even in the company of other people;This behavior was reflected in: His way of dressing, combing, walking. During the movie we can see how John suffers from hallucinations and delusions due to schizophrenia.

Disease that separates thought in 2 parts a healthy part and a part that does not work well. This part of the thought that does not work well, makes Nash live a reality different from what the rest of the people lives. So everything that happens around John Nash’s life is interpreted different from how others would interpret him making Nash’s world a unique world that he is convinced that it exists and is living. And that is not in contrast to what is really happening around, and is accompanied with the following symptoms that we can evaluate in the film.

• Delusions of persecution and greatness
• Visual and auditory hallucinations
• Disorganized speech
• Very disorganized or catatonic behavior
• Anxiety and withdrawal
• The schizophrenic patient has no control of this reality

These symptoms are clearly observed in the film when we see that in John Nash’s mindNot being discovered, we can observe withdrawal because it is largely isolated from their coworkers, social life. Likewise also the delirium of being guarded and persecuted by agents who want to harm him ”in his mind personifies them as enemy agents who want to harm him and that does not finish the intelligence work that he must do”. The combination of delusional ideas, ideas of persecution along with the reactions of anger can predispose to Nash violence, in this sense in the film it is observed at the time when they take NASH to the psychiatric clinic and how it acts in a very violent way andEven reaching the psychiatrist and at the same time observe his best friend, please ask him not to let him take him, taking into account that this friend never really existed, but for Nash’s mind it was as real as anything.

Delusions and hallucinations were as real as anything in their lives, causing the failure in their social and sentimental roles. In the end it is observed as Nash when performing its treatment properly stops presenting these hallucinations but the negative symptoms of this treatment such as cognitive deficit are awakened, because of this stops taking their medications and the hallucinations return and the last nashHe realizes the reality of his delusions and hallucinations so he decides to leave them aside and ignore them even if he continues to see them over the years as well as at the beginning. 

conclusion

It is concluded that through the Panofsky method we can understand in depth the cinematographic work a brilliant mind, which the plot revolves around the main character that is John Nash. A brilliant mathematician who suffers from schizophrenia, this a severe mental disorder that can be caused by multiple cause among them genetic cause. For the person who suffers from this disease, it is very difficult to distinguish between the real and what is not, being able to behave strangely in social social situations and have problems with memory and conversation. Schizophrenia is a disease that has no cure but has pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatment and the person who suffers it can lead a "normal life" if the correct accompaniment is done.

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