What Is The Role Of Communication In The Movie

Introduction

After 15 years of marriage, Ben (Bruce Willis) and Katie (Michelle Pfeiffer) are enduring hard times. Then, when their children go off to summer camp, they face the most important decision of their married life, do they divorce or try to fix their problems and begin a new life together? The movie illustrates how much they have change all this years and how their communication has changed. Definitively, this movie displays all the ten topics we studied at class. The dynamics in communication between couples, friends, families and coworkers. Thus, I’ll be analyzing these topics and related them to situations from the movie and from personal experience.

Topics

1. Perceiving self and others

In the movie Ben felt in love with a fun

Non-verbal communication

Some scenes in the movie, picture non-verbal communication. There is a scene where Ben says that even after they fought, they will go to bed and find their feet touching, for him it was a way of letting each other know that everything was okay. There is another scene where they are at a restaurant just eating, no talking, or looking at each other, clearly they weren’t happy.

Non-verbal communication is 55% of our everyday communication, thus it’s vital to remember that we say more without words than using words. We are prompt to react to each other’s body language, facial expressions, and gestures, the problem is that people make assumptions and in some cases these assumptions aren’t the right ones. Other times we let people know feelings that maybe we don’t want them to know, for example I have a friend (or ex-friend) that every time we see each other she checks me out from head to toe, which lead me to think that she’s jealous of me, or she wants to judge me, or maybe she wants to make me feel uncomfortable; honestly, I don’t know why she does it, but I know that she doesn’t like me just because of the non-verbal communication she uses when she sees me; although, I could be wrong. Thus, learning the appropriate skills to communicate in a non-verbal or verbal situation is

Cultural/gender issues

There is a scene where Katie is at a restaurant with her female friends talking about their relationships, they speak softly and respectfully. On the other hand, Ben is at a restaurant with his guy friends talking about their relationships, they do so loudly and the words they use to describe it are disrespectful. Communication change depending of gender, cultural background, age, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation etc. Moreover, the exchange of messages between two people is influenced by their views, and so understanding others and their backgrounds will assure we have a positive exchange of messages.

When I first moved to United States, I made sure I wasn’t disrespectful of the Americans even though many times I had a hard time understanding why they acted or said the things they did. However, there were times where I said things I thought were okay because in my country there are safe to say, but I after I say it, I saw how people reacted and recognized I made a