The Real Story Behind “A Beautiful Mind”

A Beautiful Mind Unravels

John’s eccentric behavior soon took a turn for the worse when his wife started noticing his acute paranoia. Not long after their marriage, while Nash was still a young man, he began having delusions. While the movie centers on his relationship with three imaginary characters – a military defense agent, a fictional roommate and his niece – that wasn’t strictly the case. John did believe there was a communist conspiracy and mailed letters to the government warning them, but these characters were created purely for the film.