In the award-winning movie Ordinary People, the Jarrett family struggles with the recent death of their son Buck. The film tells the story of how the loss of a loved one can result in the total collapse of a loving family. All of the conflicts that appear in this movie can be traced back to Maslowś hierarchy of human needs. Maslow´s theory illustrates the idea that all humans have a pyramid of needs, and that each level needs to be filled before the one above can be achieved. In all the conflicts that the Jarrett family get into, they always lack in the conflict management area. Beth Jarrett does not know how to show her emotions correctly and Conrad suffers because of this, Calvin Jarrett does not recognize the severity of the problems and …show more content…
She is not able to talk about Buck or treat Conrad as Buck’s equal. It seems like after Buck’s death Beth is not willing to love and care for Conrad because of the emotional trauma she went through. There are a few scenes in the film that describes both her silence and violence well. The first one is when she is not willing to take a picture with Conrad when all the family gets together. She is very dismissive about it and tries her hardest to get out of taking the picture, a form of withdrawing. The ends up in a large argument between Beth, Conrad, and Calvin. A way she could have gone about this better is explaining why she does not feel comfortable with situation and using the C.R.I.B method. Beth should to talk to Conrad about what they both want and how they can come to a compromise. If the two together brainstorm ideas maybe they could have achieved a common goal. A way Beth exhibits violence is when she mentions to Conrad and Calvin that she found that Conrad had quit the swim team. She storms and starts to yell and accuse Conrad. This is called attacking. What Beth should of done is approach Conrad and speak to him respectfully and only state observable facts. Together they could have discussed the reason why Conrad quit the swim team and what needs to be done about …show more content…
A scene that exhibits silence is right at the beginning of the movie. Beth and Calvin come home late to find that Conrad is still awake. This is unusual because he school the next morning. Conrad is masking through him lying about not being able to sleep and saying that he had been up reading and doing homework. What Conrad should have done is come to his dad and state that he has a problem. The only way problems can be solved is if you address the need and make progress. Conrad also shows violence in the camera scene. Calvin is trying to take a picture of Conrad and his mother. Beth does not want the picture so she asks for the camera. Calvin insists that they get a picture together. Conrad explodes and starts screaming and cursing about the camera. He uses displacement and turns his anger onto a simple picture and camera. What he should have done is step out of the situation and cool down. Then come back and discuss what the problem is and what has to be done to fix
Released in 2004, Miracle, directed by Gavin O’Connor is an action filled edge of your seat movie based off the 1980 Winter Olympics. In the 80 Olympics the Americans attempted to do the unthinkable in defeating the dominant Soviet Union at their peak. Herb Brooks coaches and brings together a team compiled of college kids who just met, to attempt to take down the hockey dynasty Soviet Union had created for years. The main characters are Herb Brooks played by Kurt Russell, Mike Eruzione played by Patrick O’Brien Demsey, and Jim Craig played by Eddie Cahill. Miracle increased national pride in the game of hockey, and paved the way for the millions of youth who strive to represent their country in the game.
Poor Kids is a documentary that highlights a major issue the United States is suffering from. This issue is known as poverty, more specifically, childhood poverty. This documentary views the world through the eyes of children that are subjected to lives of poverty due to the poor financial state that their parents are in. Life is very rough for these children and they must live their everyday lives with little to none of the luxuries most people take for granted. Poor Kids sheds light on the painful fact that there are children that starve every day in the United States.
During the movie Meet the Parents, the main character Greg Focker wants to propose to his girlfriend Pam Byrnes. Before he proposes he wants to meet her parents first. During a dinner scene in the film Greg tries his best to please Pam’s father, Jack. Greg makes jokes about an urn placed at the top of the fireplace and is soon told it is the ashes of Jack’s mother. Greg attempts to make light of the situation by bringing out the champagne he had bought. While unscrewing the top it pops off and hits the urn making the urn fall on the wood floor and shatter into pieces. According to Thomas C. Foster, when a failed meal occurs it can cause negative outcomes. This statement is true based on Meet the Parents because Jack continues to dislike Greg
In the movie, The Human Experience, Abraham Maslow’s and James Fowler’s beliefs play a major role in describing the three experiences that the characters chose to live out. The characters Cliff, Jeff, Michael, and Matthew join each other on three different encounters to experience life in other people’s shoes. The encounters were homelessness, caring for physically and mentally handicapped children, and visited Ghanaians with HIV AIDS and leprosy. Each character learned lessons and were humbled immensely by their experiences.
The Bad and The Beautiful (1952) and State and Main (2000) are films within films that unmask Hollywood Cinema as a dream factory and expose the grotesque, veneer hidden by the luxury of stars. The Bad and the Beautiful, directed by Vincent Minnelli, is a black and white film narrated in flashback form. The films theatrical nature requires more close-ups than wide-screen shots to capture the character’s psychological turmoil. For example, Fred and Jonathan’s car ride is captured in a close-up to signify their friendship; however their relationship deteriorates after Jonathan’s deceit. While the camera zooms out, Fred stands alone motionless. Here, Fred is captured from a distance at eye-level and he becomes ostracized by the film industry and
“Love”, the term often used to describe an intense feeling of deep affection towards someone or something. The film “Loving” tells the story of Richard and Mildred Loving and the obstacles they had to go through in order to be able to love each other. Their story took place in 1958, Virginia, prior to the rise of the Civil Rights movement. At this time in the state of Virginia, Anti-miscegenation laws stated that mixed-race couples were a violation punishable by jail time. Due to Richard and Mildred Loving having married in Washington, D.C their legal contract was not accepted and respected in the state of Virginia, they were seen as violating anti-miscegenation laws and forced to spend time in jail. Richard and Mildred Loving were released
For this assignment, the movie “The Help” was chosen to review and analyze because it presents a story of fighting injustice through diverse ways. The three main characters of the movie are Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, a young white woman, Aibileen Clark, and Minny Jackson, two colored maids. Throughout the story, we follow these three women as they are brought together to record colored maids’ stories about their experiences working for the white families of Jackson. The movie explores the social inequalities such as racism and segregation between African Americans and whites during the 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi.
Gender and the portrayal of gender roles in a film is an intriguing topic. It is interesting to uncover the way women have been idealized in our films, which mirrors the sentiments of the society of that period in time. Consequently, the thesis of this essay is a feminist approach that seeks to compare and contrast the gender roles of two films. The selected films are A few Good Men and Some Like it Hot.
The Interrupters is a 2011 film directed by Steve James that speaks volume on inner city violence. This film accurately portrays urban life and issues that arise from it. With brilliant cinematography, this film describes social problems, social norms, and inner city culture and demonstrates it through a strategically written and shot film. The Interrupters was informative, eye opening, touching, and relevant to today’s time. This is true because there is perhaps an even larger violence epidemic in the United States than when the film came out.
Lack of communication and poor communication is a big problem in the novel. Beth thinks she and Conrad have poor communication. This is clear when Beth gets mad at Conrad be cause wasn’t the first to know that he quit swim team. Calvin and Beth have communication issues too. They always have different views on things. Beth wanted to go on vacation and Calvin thought it was best to stay home until Conrad is settled again. Calvin wants to talk about everyone’s problems when Beth feels it’s best to move on, and forget about the past and only think about the future. Their lack of communication to agree on things turns their marriage from good to bad and Beth ends up leaving Calvin and Conrad.
A movie that almost perfectly intertwines social work related issues and their various aspects into the storyline would be the 2009 movie The Blind Side. The movie follows Michael Oher; a boy living under harsh conditions at home that eventually lead him to be homeless. When spotted by a woman named Leigh Anne Tuohy, she takes him in and assists him in becoming a pro-football player (“The Blind Side (2009),” n.d.). The issues faced in the movie by Oher are reminiscent of issues dealt with by social workers, homelessness and child neglect being a few. For example, issues presented in the film that emphasizes social work-related problems are seen when Leigh goes to visit Michael’s mother, who is a drug addict, which is what led to Michael being
Sex, love, depression, guilt, trust, all are topics presented in this remarkably well written and performed drama. The Flick, a 2014 Pulitzer Prize winning drama by Annie Baker, serves to provide a social commentary which will leave the audience deep in thought well after the curtain closes. Emporia State Universities Production of this masterpiece was a masterpiece in itself, from the stunningly genuine portrayal of the characters of Avery and Rose, to the realism found within the set, every aspect of the production was superb.
The Importance of Being Earnest film produced in 2002 compares to the original version reveal different changes. The change modify the motion which the author would like to transmit in the original document. The important changes are the modification of some stage of direction. The actors changed some stages of direction and created their own. The second change is skipping of some sequences. The actor of the film choose to ignore some sequences which were in the original version. Moreover, the actors added some stages which were not in the preview version. The other point is the incapacity of transmitting all the motion which we can perceive in the reading. Finally, the actors did not show enthusiasm in their performance as we can feel it in
The emotional thriller, The Village, is about an isolated town that bases their lives around the 19th century, Amish country. The village has highly secured borders and outside the borders “those we don’t speak of” live and it’s an unspoken truce that the other won’t cross the borders. But the town soon turns upside down when Lucious Hunt breaches the borders to find medicine after the death of Edwards’s son. The writers and producers of this movie express symbolism of the fear of the unknown, the loss of innocence, and through the use of colors.
The hierarchy of needs and person-centered theory share humanistic psychology’s approach toward the person. In the Abraham Maslow hierarchy of needs, humans satisfy