Hollywood's earth-shaking is not important to Hugo, because after identifying a partner, Hugo puts all his experiences on the adaptation of the script.

Hugo has been searching for information for nearly three weeks, but he still has no clear idea. He not only read the biographical novel of "Beautiful Mind" three times, but also carefully watched an interview documentary about John Nash.

Among many literary works, John Nash and his game theory are both hot spots, not just mathematics and economy. Hugo gradually discovered that game theory is also an absolute hot spot in cutting-edge research in other disciplines. It seems that adding a little game theory to his own research will make the whole paper fashionable. The more fields there are thousands of miles away from game theory, such as biology, comparative literature, history, etc., the more scholars rack their brains to apply game theory to their own research.

This is a very interesting phenomenon. Until Hugo discovered that psychology also used John Nash as the research object. However, it was not John's game theory, but John himself. This was also the hope of Hugo's discovery of the interview documentary. This documentary was originally Hugo personally went to the headquarters of the Burbank CBS TV station and searched for two hours before finding it.

The first sentence of the narrator in the interview is very interesting, "John Nash once suffered from severe schizophrenia, but he insisted that his illness was cured entirely by willpower."

It is not a secret that John suffers from schizophrenia, but it has become one of his important labels. However, John hates mental hospitals, drugs, and doctors. Until now, when he mentions his wife sending him to mental hospitals, he still has a palpitations on his face.

John had two hospital admissions experiences. The first time was McLean Hospital, which specialized in treating the upper class. The doctors there used schizophrenia as a mental illness and had psychological counseling every day, trying to unearth the cause of the disease from childhood experiences. John's colleague Donald Newman visited him, and he said, "Donald, if I didn't become normal, they wouldn't let me go out. But I've never been normal..."

The second time was Trenton Mental Hospital. During the interview, John revisited the old place with the interviewer. John just stood on the lawn of the hospital and looked at it from a distance, but refused to get close. "They gave you injections to make you like animals so that they could treat you like animals." Here, he was forced to receive insulin coma treatment, which has been stopped by the Western medical community: after a large amount of insulin injection, the patient fell into a coma, and even when the patient was awake, he was like a walking corpse. John began to eat only vegetarian food to protest the hospital's treatment, of course, no one took this seriously. After a long period of insulin coma treatment, he finally became "normal", and he had never been so humble and polite in his life. Donald's wife recalled, "He looked so obedient that he had just been beaten."

Half a year later, the humble and polite John was finally discharged from Trenton Hospital. He staggered away from the hospital. The first thing he did was to find his childhood friends. "Tell me about the things we played with. That treatment wiped out my childhood memories."

This made Hugo start to think: If returning to reason only means the taming of social systems, social frameworks, and social standards, the loss of memory, the loss of personality, and the loss of emotions, then is healing really valuable? Especially for a genius like John who regards mathematics as the "only important thing."

The purest mathematics in John's mind is not reason, not numbers, but inspiration. Reason is just a means of communicating this inspiration. If regaining reason also means the loss of inspiration, then he would rather give up his reason. A friend visited him when he was in the hospital, "When you go crazy, you claim that aliens talk to you, but how could a rational mathematician like you believe such nonsense as aliens?"

John replied, “The ideas of mathematics come into my mind like aliens. I believe in the existence of aliens, just as I believe in mathematics.” He wrote in Notebook Hill, “The four digits of reason block the closeness of man and the universe.”

From this perspective, John is indeed a madman who is like countless miracles in history.

After leaving Trenton Hospital, John refused to receive any medication because the treatment made him feel dull and unable to think about mathematics. He got a free job as a researcher at Princeton University. Therefore, Princeton students often saw a middle-aged man wearing red running shoes wandering on campus like a walking corpse, writing irreal formulas on the entire blackboard, and appearing in a professor's office with hundreds of mathematical formulas that had just been calculated the eve. The students gave him a nickname, "The Ghost of Mathematics Building", but few people knew who the ghost was.

After entering the 1970s, John's relatives and friends began to notice that he gradually stopped going crazy. John's eyes became clear and his behavior became logical. But how did John recover in the absence of medical treatment? John believed, "As long as I think, one day, I began to want to become rational." From that day on, he began to debate with his auditory voices, refuting those voices, "distinguish irrationality with reason, and discern illusions with common sense."

This is a very interesting case. Although Hugo had limited knowledge of psychology, in John's case, madness and reason seemed to have become a free-will choice. So much so that Hugo no longer believed that he was really crazy, but... rationally chose madness and returned to reason madness. Or to be more precise, before the 1970s, he frantically applied all reason to mathematics, which led to life losing control; and after entering the 1970s, he consciously chose to apply part of madness to mathematics inspiration, while the remaining madness was imprisoned with reason.

This idea is too bold and too crazy. Even if Hugo has not studied psychology, he knows that the possibility is slim. However, if you think about the origin of John's madness, it seems that it is not so unfounded.

John has been a strange, arrogant, introverted and withdrawn person since ancient times. His grades were not good in elementary school, including mathematics, and even the teacher considered a student with lower academic performance than intelligence tests. For example, in mathematics, his unconventional problem-solving methods were criticized by teachers, but John's mother was full of confidence in his son. Later facts proved that this alternative approach was precisely the embodiment of his mathematical talent. Not only mathematical genius, but most geniuses are like this, and there is nothing worthy of strangeness.

But how could a person with a strange personality be considered to be crazy suddenly? The reason is that at the end of the fifties, one day when John was thirty, he suddenly claimed that communists and anti-communists were in the same group, all of whom were "conspirators"; he claimed that Eisenhower and the Vatican Pope had no sympathy for him; the turmoil in the Middle East made him deeply uneasy, and he called his relatives and friends anonymously, saying that the end of the world was coming.

In such a situation, John was sent to a mental hospital for the first time. Later, when he left McLean Hospital, he resigned from MIT, withdrawing all his pensions and announcing that he was traveling to Europe. In July 1959, John arrived in Paris, and saw the entire city full of protests against nuclear arms races, strikes, explosions, and he went to the local government several times to seek help, hoping to give up his American nationality; he even went to Geneva, because the city was known for its refugee-friendlyness, and he declared to the Swiss that "the American system is fundamentally wrong", but no one believed him. Finally, he was sent on a plane and returned, and afterwards he claimed that he was sent onto a ship, locked in chains like a slave.

Before being sent off, John wandered in Europe for nine months, full of the noise and commotion under the Cold War consciousness as Paris was as loud as Paris. The shadows of NATO and Wars Pact lingered back and forth over the European continent. The extremely metaphorical wandering of these nine months reminded people of the heroes who wandered around the fictional world: Marguerite Duras's female beggar who never forgets the Ganges, James Joyce's (James.joyce's (Mr. Joyce's (Mr. Bloom) who traveled through Dublin for a day, and Odysseus who spent ten years returning home as praised by Homer, and Don Quixote, who traveled around the world in Cervantes Savedra's...

This brought Hugo back to his college years, and the characters in classical literature began to coincide with John little by little: they wandered around with their bodies without ends to try to achieve some spiritual goal.

The crazy scenes that John witnessed in Europe made Hugo unable to help but wonder: how a schizophrenic patient who had just left a mental hospital faced a real world that was even more crazy than a mental hospital. It was like McMurphy who was eager to walk out of the "Flying Over the Crazy Asylum", just like Truman who struggled out of the cocoon in the "Trumen's World", just like 1900 who could never walk out of the "Sea Pianist".

This real world has always claimed that it is "normal" and "rational", but the continuous wars on the European continent have made mental hospitals look like paradise.

Does the cruel and bloody reality make human beings more rational or crazy? People always stand on the moral high ground and sentence some people to "you are crazy", but in fact, the boundary between madness and reason has become a manifestation of social power: those who deviate from the so-called mainstream social track are crazy; and those who follow the rules and obey ones are normal. This is the "Trumen's world", the "American beauty", and the life of John Nash.

When people can't wait to condemn John as a madman, isn't it the mainstream society's persecution of the niche groups? Of course, perhaps John's mysterious hallucinations and nonsense make people timid and fearful, but after the iron curtain of the Cold War fell, people found that John's "crazy remarks" were more like prophets, while people's fear of the unknown and uncertainty labeled John as a "madman".
Chapter completed!