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Point of No Return
In the film Shame, Brandon represents a successful middle class man working in Manhattan, but is constantly trapped within his addiction to sex and compulsive thoughts to oppress the dirty thoughts when his sister Sissy comes into his life. How does Brandon’s sister Sissy reverse the predator and victim role on a psychological perspective? And what sexual subjectivities does Sissy impose on Brandon that ultimately drives the monstrosity as sexual pathology? The film Shame directed by Steve McQueen explores the hidden unspeakable addiction and consequences of neurosis. The main character Brandon has a successful career, but is constantly
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He felt extremely unfit for his identity when he began to watch pornographic movies in his office, so he lied to his boss that it was his assistant who watched it on his computer. Furthermore, he blatantly shouted at his assistant as if he was punishing himself for the dirty movies that he watches in his office. The director deliberately covers the unblinking truth contained in the character’s sexual urge as a way to allow interpretation for the audience. It is easy to get lost in one’s identity in the society, and the availability of sex has made people lost interest in what is ordinary and acceptable. Sissy as an intruder of Brandon’s life insinuates the monstrosity that devours his personality and interrupts his identity to make him feel desperate and scared for his unconscious sexual attempt of his sister. The incest delusion triggers Brandon’s monstrosity that lays within his inability to suppress his addiction to sex, dual personality, and repetition trauma occurrences in the extremity …show more content…
From going for married woman, gay club, and threesome relationship, Brandon reaches for the indiscriminating options for his sexual addiction. In one of the crucial scene, He was having sex with a prostitute but the entire shot was a close up of his facial expression. Painful, helpless, and the guilty shameful look on his face imply the parasitism of monstrosity. There is no trace of pleasure on his face yet he cannot stop. He has to indulge himself in sex restlessly even when his mind refutes the sex. Halberstam explains it as “Parasitism, especially with regards to the vampire, represents bad or pathological sexuality, non-reproductive sexuality, a sexuality that exhausts and wastes and exits prior to and outside of the marriage contract” (Halberstam 17). His exhaustion on the face and craving for sex while at the same time resentful to the idea of marriage is an embodiment of parasitism. His sexual activity can be interpreted as a way to escape his complicated feelings with Sissy. Furthermore, he would not even engage in relationship with any woman, because his intention is to lose himself to the world of no limitations. He carries his addiction as a conscious weight on his shoulder. One after another, his connection with woman is purely based on sex and the pursuit of sex. In addition, Freudian suggest
Incohesive, long, and dialogue-heavy, Inherent Vice has all the potential to flounder. Yet under the steady (or rather, wild) hands of director Paul Thomas Anderson, the film becomes a psychedelic, incredibly enjoyable ride brimming with wit and melancholy. The film follows Larry ‘Doc’ Sportello (played in routinely magnificent fashion by the now ever-reliable Joaquin Phoenix), and his exploits to help his ex-girlfriend, Shasta Fey (Katherine Waterston, also exquisite) investigate a kidnapping of notorious real-estate billionaire Mickey Wolfmann. From there, the plot descends (or ascends, depending on your perspective of the film) into sumptuous lunacy; a mystery involving the coveted and secretive
This just manifests how horribly we allow women to be treated in this male-dominated world. These women would kill to be treated as a man, just for a day. John puts down Lana and her girlfriends just as her did, her mother. It is a sickening commentary on the maltreatment of females. Brandon just does something about it. All of the girls in the story want respect, it is only Brandon who has figured out a way to get it: by becoming one of the respected, a man. He was on his way to the surgical sex change procedure, which would make his transformation complete, until he was interrupted by another injustice in our patriarchy, the fear and hatred of what is different. Brandon is brutally raped and ultimately shot by his assailants for reporting it.
Amy Heckerling’s movie Clueless focuses on an upper middle class 16-year-old girl, Cher, who lives in a nice neighborhood with her father and stepbrother, Josh. Cher and her friend, Dionne, take in a new girl, Tai, to help her fit into their high school. All of the major characters in the movie are in adolescence, which ranges from 10-19 years of age. In adolescence, teenagers undergo cognitive and emotional development. According to Piaget’s cognitive developmental theory, adolescents are in formal operational period from 11-20 years of age. During this period, adolescents develop abstract thinking and rational decision making. They experience two aspects of adolescent egocentrism, imaginary audience
When something shaming happens, and we keep it locked up, it festers and grows. It consumes us” (40). Brown believes that we should share our experiences with others, but not just anyone she believes that we should share with someone that we trust and that will not judge us because of what we did. She also considers that not everyone we communicate with is worthy of sharing our shame stories with. Shame is a part of all of our lives we have shame within us it helps us stay humble because it reminds us that we are human and make
Though some may rise from the shame they acquire in their lives, many become trapped in its vicious cycle. Written by Khlaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner describes the struggles of Amir, his father Baba, and his nephew Sohrab as they each fall victim to this shameful desolation. One repercussion of Baba hiding his sinful adultery from Amir is that Amir betrays Hassan for his father’s stringent approval. Sohrab’s dirty childhood also traumatizes him through his transition to America. Consequently, shame is a destructive force in The Kite Runner. Throughout the course of the novel, Baba’s shameful affair, Amir’s selfish betrayal, and Sohrab’s graphic childhood destroy their lives.
The two essays discussed in this paper are ‘My Name’ and ‘Shame’. Sandra Cisneros in ‘My Name’ presents a very strong point of view of how her name has different meaning and it gives her memories of her grandmother with who she shares her name and also regrets the fact that it is somehow related to the weakness she and her grandmother used to feel when they were supposed to be behaving in a certain manner because they were Mexican and were not given power and freedom. There name was a sort of reminder of the fact that they have to be soft and polite and quite because none of the meaning of the name represents something which is powerful and expressive and strong. Esperanza in English means hope while in Spanish it meant sadness and waiting and that inflicted nations of the society towards women.
Sexuality is very diverse, in some instances normality is based on the cultural context of the individual 's society. In "The other side of desire" by Daniel Bergner, the author goes in depth into the lives of four individual 's whose lust and longing have led them far down the realms of desire. The current paper addresses the four individual 's Jacob, the Baroness, Roy, and Ron each exhibits a paraphilia that may or may not meet the full criteria in the DSM-5. Furthermore, each person’s specific paraphilia is conceptualized and explained in depth. Countertransferential issues anticipated before working with these individuals is analyzed and clarified. Also, the apprehension of sexual arousal and sexual behaviors is conceptualized into normality
“The Help” is a white mock feel good movie, which seems to feature amnesia of racial conflicts in the South as its primary theme (Stockett, 2009). Author Natasha McLaughlin suggests that ‘The Help’ focuses upon the home and the relationship between African-American domestics and the laws of Jim Crow’s neglected ‘other half’: Jane Crow (McLaughlin, 2014). The American Civil Rights Movement mainly accommodates the public with a view concentrated upon a male dominant perspective but appreciations to Stockett and her moving interpretation of the relationship of Caucasian housewives and their African-American maids the public gets a rare white-washed version of events dealing with the civil rights movement going on within the interior of the households
Misery the movie is about a famous author Paul Sheldon (played by James Caan) who is known for a series of award winning novels called Misery. To get inspiration for his books Paul Sheldon has ritual of visiting the Colorado mountains to complete his novels. Sheldon visited the mountains and in due time finishes his novel. In a haste to get back to his daily routines, Sheldon travels down the mountain unknowingly heading directly into a severe winter storm. While driving he ends up crashing and becoming seriously injured in the process. Thankfully and somewhat regretfully former nurse Anne Wilkes (Kathy Bates) Saves him. Anne bring him to her nearby home, on an isolated farm away from town to nurse Paul back to health. Anne is
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter tells the story of a puritan community living in 17th century Boston, and how they deal with the aftermath of an act of adultery committed by Hester Prynne with an unnamed man. Hawthorne’s story deals with the themes of guilt and shame, and the effect that these forces have on the novel’s characters. Of the characters that are introduced in the novel, Hester Prynne represents and suffers from guilt; while Dimmesdale represents and suffers from shame.
Film Analysis - The Notebook Introduction The film is portrayed in the past and present scenario setting. It is based on a young couple’s love and passion for one another, but are unexpectedly separated due to the disapproval of the teen girl parents and the social differences in their life. At the start of the movie, it displays a nursing home style setting with an elderly man named Duke (James Garner), reading to an elderly woman named Mrs. Hamilton (Gena Rowlands), whose memory is inevitably deteriorating. The story he reads to her is a love story about two teenagers named Allie (Rachel McAdams) and Noah (Ryan Gosling), that met in the 1940’s at a carnival in Seabrook Island, South Carolina.
‘Our interest in the parallels between the adaptation inter-texts is further enhanced by consideration of their marked differences in textual form,’
In the first scene of the movie Erin is giving a job interview where she has no relevant experience and qualification . Here Erin is motivated by the stage 1 and 3 of Kohlberg’s model of moral development as she is she wants the job to ‘Ethics of Care’ as she is concerned for her kids.
This movie starts off as Jordan Belfort, the main character in the movie, losing his job as a stockbroker in Wall Street. After losing his job, he goes and gets a job in a Long Island brokerage room. In the brokerage room, he sells penny stocks. Thanks to him being aggressive in his selling skills, he was able to make a profit. With the new income, he gives his wife a bracelet and she asked him why doesn’t he go after the people that can afford to lose money, not the middle-class people or lower income people. That is when he gets the idea to get a lot of young people and train them to become the best stock brokers.
The state of the couple’s marriage prior to Steve’s extradyadic affair is a veracious representation of findings derived from psychological research. This representation of the psychological research is also able to foreshadow Steve’s affair. Before Steve commits his infidelity, viewers are able to observe Miranda struggling to balance her time between her full time career, parenting of a young child and the maintenance of her marriage. A period of no sexual intercourse between the couple is portrayed through Miranda stating that the last time she and Steve had engaged in sex...