The movie Proof , which stars Gwyneth Paltrow , Jake Gyllenhaal , Anthony Hopkins and Hope Davis , is mainly about the struggles of a young woman to communicate with the people around her as she re-examines her life and ultimately discovers her greater potentials The movie circles around Catherine , played by Paltrow , the daughter of a Mathematics genius , Robert , played by Hopkins . Robert was a professor in the University of Chicago . In his early twenties , he contributed so much in the field of mathematics . He was highly esteemed by his Colleagues and students . However , later in his life , he started to have bouts of psychosis , although the exact dis was not mentioned in the movie . Claire , Catherine 's elder sister was in New …show more content…
York working as a currency analyst . So Catherine had to drop out of school to take care of her father , as she was the only one left to fend for him . And this marked Catherine 's sort of downward spiral . After their father died Claire came back to Chicago wanting to help her sister get her life back together . In the process , old issues surfaced and previous hurts that were not communicated become known . Meanwhile , Hal , a former graduate student of Robert , is on a quest to look for breakthrough works by Robert during his lucid moments when he was having fits of insanity . In the course of Hal 's research he slowly falls in love with Catherine In general , Catherine felt that she could not relate with the world like she was always different . This is because her inability to communicate herself effectively . Once , one of her college professors almost failed her because she was not able to answer the given problem sets correctly . Even though the professor acknowledged that the solutions were good , the answers were not the correct ones that he was looking for . Clearly , the professor did not recognize that Catherine might also be a genius like his father . That she may have missed the rights answers but her problem-solving technique was remarkable . The professor may have not distinguished this potential because Catherine herself does not exude this . She does not project this potential because she was in denial of her true talents . Her self-image , or the way Catherine perceives herself , is flawed and this is why the way she presents herself to people is also flawed There is a certain disconnect between who Catherine really is and what she presents herself to people . When Hal noticed that she had a lot of Mathematics books in her room , she quickly said that all the math books are just window dressing and that she really just reads Cosmo magazines This disengagement between who she really is and who she makes people think she is creates an inability for Catherine to effectively communicate . When Catherine presented a complicated proof to Hal , he had a hard time accepting this was truly her work because she made Hal think that all the Math are just pretend . She was outraged that Hal could not believe that she could actually come up with a complicated proof but she failed to realize that this failure to communicate is partly because of her . There is miscommunication between Catherine and Hal because of differences in their expectations . Hal may have already formed an image of Catherine to be smart but not that smart . Catherine claiming ownership of the proof went against his expectations of her . His reaction validates his expectations . Catherine , on the other hand , since this happened right after they spent the night together , thought that Hal already trusted her enough to believe her . She expected Hal to back her up against Claire . But instead Hal agreed with Claire that the proof might have been Robert 's work and not Catherine 's Hence , Catherine moves in a cycle of miscommunication . She could not accept that she has her father 's genius because this would mean that she also has her father 's psychotic tendencies . She then creates a false self-concept . Her misrepresentation of herself to other people causes them to have a different expectation of who she is . And when they react accordingly to their expectations of Catherine , she lashes out because in reality she is not who she presents herself to be However , the case is different between Catherine and her sister . It is Claire who presents a different expectation of Catherine and Catherine in return , acts as expected of her . Claire believes that Catherine has inherited some of their father 's talents and also some of his tendencies . In a way , Claire expects Catherine to be a nutshell . The result is that Catherine acts like a nutshell - a self-fulfilling prophecy . When Catherine initially told Claire about Hal , Claire had doubts whether Hal really exists or just a figment of Catherine 's imagination . So when Hal appears , proof that he exists , Catherine lashes out at Claire in public acting insane like how Claire expects her to be Also , when Claire refuses to believe that the proof is really by Catherine , Catherine breaks down and falsely admits that the proof is not hers and that she made up the story . This gave Claire a basis that Catherine might really possess their father 's tendencies . She made Catherine agree to seek professional help . So despite the fact that Catherine is just going through a depression , with what she has been though and all , she manifested the symptoms of a nervous breakdown because this is what Claire expects from Catherine Verbally , Claire never said anything about her thoughts on the fragile state of mind of Catherine .
In fact , every time Catherine confronts Claire whether Claire thinks she is crazy , Claire always tells her that this is not so . The only time that Claire hinted this was when she said to Catherine that she has her father 's talent and maybe also some of his tendencies , but other than that , it was Claire 's non-verbal communication that led Catherine to believe that there is something really wrong with her . When Claire forced her sister to take a shower undermined Catherine 's capacity to take care of herself . Also , Claire 's initial doubt that Hal exists reinforces her negative thoughts on Catherine 's mental health . Even towards at the end of the film , Claire asked her sister if she wants coffee . Catherine said no but Claire went ahead and bought a cup for her anyway . Claire 's non-verbal communication says that she thinks she knows what is good for Catherine better than Catherine herself and also that Catherine does not really know what she wants . It is a good thing that this small gesture of Claire led Catherine to realize that she needs to take over her own …show more content…
life Knapp mentions in his book Interpersonal Communication and Human Relationships that it is not only the verbal communication between two people that affects the conversation , and ultimately the relationship There are other non-verbal languages that we use , whether consciously or unconsciously , to convey our true emotions . And sometimes what we verbally communicate is opposite of that we non-verbally communicate The cycle of miscommunication is very evident in all the dyads of Catherine and Claire . From the moment Claire arrived , both have been arguing with each other . One of their initial conversations was about the conditioner that Claire sent Catherine . Claire was insisting that Catherine use the conditioner . It is clear that Catherine did not want to use it but instead of arguing on the premise of not wanting to use it , she begins to attack her sister by questioning her on the composition of the conditioner . Likewise with Claire , instead of directly telling Catherine that she is selling the house and that she should move out , Claire talked about where Catherine could get good coffee in New York . Claire and Catherine are similar in that they both skirt around smaller issues rather than actually confronting the real issue at hand . This causes a lot of miscommunication between the sisters The possibility for a miscommunication to occur would be lessened if both parties involved in a dyad would stick to the original premise or the current issue at hand rather than skirting around smaller inconsequential issues There is constant disconnection between the encoding of the message and decoding of the message in the dyads of Catherine and Claire .
Catherine almost always misinterprets her sister 's intentions . In the conversation about the conditioner , Catherine mistook her sister 's concern for Claire just trying to control her life . Another situation was when Catherine was in Northwestern University and she was worried why their father was not answering the phone so she called Claire about it . Claire simply said that there was nothing that she should worry about . Catherine interpreted this as Claire not caring enough for their father Contrariwise , Catherine interprets Claire 's absence during their father 's nervous breakdown as not caring enough for their father . In fact , Claire was not able to spend more time with their father because she was working 14 hours everyday so she could pay for the mortgage of the house that Claire and their father were living in . The sisters are both looking at the same experience but how they understood the experience is This is a common cause of miscommunication , when the receiver decodes the message that is not in conjunction with the original intent of the message . With the case of Claire and Catherine , their misinterpretation is a product of their previous hurts and frustrations . Catherine 's disappointment on dropping out of school makes Claire 's life in the city seems more appealing . She specifically told Claire that at least
Claire has a life of her own while she was stuck taking care of their insane father . Claire , on the other hand , was overworked in New York and living in a small studio to be able to pay for the mortgage of their house in Chicago . Claire blames Catherine for not taking care enough care of their father . Claire believes that he could have been better if Catherine asked for a professional help rather that taking care of their father herself . However , at this point in their conversation , Catherine did not mention the notebook where their father wrote his thanks to her for not placing him in an institution . If she mentioned this , it would have given her a more concrete argument with Claire . This would have cleared the channels of communication but Catherine made no mention of it It is true that Catherine withdrew from the world . When she dropped out of school she just stayed home with her father and made no effort to socialize . In one scene , her father was scolding her for mopping around He told Catherine that she was wasting a lot of her time doing nothing Catherine was deeply frustrated for dropping out of school but she was not communicating this frustration with anyone . Also the increase in the deterioration of her father 's mental state also added to her frustration . But she never made any attempt to connect with anyone . She just grew more secluded . If she instead chose to be connected , things might have ended differently for her . Maintaining an interpersonal communication even with just a few of her friends might have done here a lot of good
At the beginning of the show Charlotte does not like Catherine. Catherine even confronts her about it on page 22 when the girls are making plans to go out and get ice cream. Charlotte makes excuses so she can avoid going out. However, Catherine tells her, “You don't have plans. You just don't want to go out with me.” Catherine is determined to win her co-worker over. “You're gonna like me yet, Charlotte Purcell,” she remarks. By the end of the show, many years later in the play time, Charlotte has changed her mind. “Catherine Donohue….You're my hero.” she says on page
As she got older, Jeannette and her siblings made their own life, even as their parents became homeless. Jeannette and her older sister Lori decide to run away from their family in Virginia and go start a new life in New York City. However, after a few months, the rest of the family moves to New York and settles down. While in the City, Jeannette gets a job as a reporter, which was her life goal, and one day on her way to an event she sees her mother rummaging around in a dumpster. While the rest of the family gets along, Maureen, the youngest of the family goes insane and stabs their
The conflict Catherine faces is Person versus self. “Little Bird, in the world to come, you will not be asked ‘why were you not George?’ or ‘why were you not Perkin?’ but ‘why were you not Catherine?’ ” (Cushman 17). It is depicted that Catherine tried to be everyone else but not herself. Hence, Catherine’s conflict is internal because she must change her conceptions. Catherine must accept who she is. Catherine’s conflict is resolved in the resolution. Catherine understands the Jewish woman’s advice. “And it came to my mind that I cannot run away. I am who I am wherever I am” (Cushman 202). Catherine understands she cannot be like Perkin or George, and she will not be asked if why she was not like Perkin or George. However, Catherine will be asked why she did not act like herself, and why she was not
One can say that Claire acts selfishly for trying to find men that suit her expectations of a true lover, but to only find men who want sex. Hsün Tzu would also say that Claire’s emotions are chaotic, which cause her to make decisions that she would not reflect on because she is too deep into her own fairytale that she is blind to the fact that she is killing people. In a scene where she is talking to her next victim about just starting out dating men just a week before, she shows no remorse or any emotion that she had killed the man that she said she had dated (Criminal Minds S10 E6 24:04). Unlike Mengzi, Hsün Tzu would agree that reflection would not work for Claire because she is already who she
Robert, who is an esteemed mathematician is the father to Catherine, who is only 25 years old. Hal is the romantic antagonist, more like a nerd, sometimes charming. He is most uncertain about Catherine’s scholastic abilities. Hal discovers a pad in a drawer with profound calculations. He falsely assumes the work is Roberts. In reality, Catherine had written the mathematic proof. But no one would believe her. She now fights to provide proof that the proof was written by her.
Catherine, like the McKees, makes an appearance at Tom’s apartment, and Nick first notes her “sticky bob of red hair, and a complexion powdered milky white”, which shows her attempt to maintain an appearance of class (30). Yet, she does not apply the makeup successfully, and the evident cosmetics and sign of effort speak against her sense of class and taste. However, Catherine makes an appearance at the end of the novel after the death of her sister, Myrtle. Catherine holds both her sister’s and her own image in great importance, and so when others convince her “that [her sister’s] ambulance had already gone to Flushing ... she immediately fainted, as if that was the intolerable part of the affair” (156). Flushing exists as part of the Valley of Ashes, while Catherine lives in a hotel, presumably on the outskirts of the city. The fact that her sister goes to the dirty, poor city instead of to a cleaner area disturbs her rather than the news about her sister, which suggests the importance of appearances over the safety or health of her own family. Therefore, perhaps Fitzgerald makes a commentary through Catherine that the pursuit of class and self importance motivates a
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.
In the documentary “Fed Up,” sugar is responsible for Americas rising obesity rate, which is happening even with the great stress that is set on exercise and portion control for those who are overweight. Fed Up is a film directed by Stephanie Soechtig, with Executive Producers Katie Couric and Laurie David. The filmmaker’s intent is mainly to inform people of the dangers of too much sugar, but it also talks about the fat’s in our diets and the food corporation shadiness. The filmmaker wants to educate the country on the effects of a poor diet and to open eyes to the obesity catastrophe in the United States. The main debate used is that sugar is the direct matter of obesity. Overall, I don’t believe the filmmaker’s debate was successful.
1980. Warner Bros. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Music by Wendy Carlos and Rcachel Elkind. Cinematography by John Alcott. Editing by Ray Lovejoy. With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd.
The first, most obvious trait of Catherine’s heroism is that she values human relationships above materialism. Nothing is more important to Catherine than her lover, Henry, and as the novel goes on, her baby. When Henry is injured and sent to Milan, she has no trouble transferring to the new hospital there. Catherine loves Henry and would drop anything to be with him. Nothing material holds her back from being with him. Even when they live in Switzerland, they don’t have many material possessions. They live very simple lives because all the couple really needs is each other. In chapter forty, Henry describes their time together with this quote, "When there was a good day we had a splendid time and we never had a bad time. We knew the baby was very close now and it gave us both a feeling as though something were hurrying us and we could not lose any time together." Catherine obviously values her time with Henry more than anyone else, but it isn’t the physical aspect of getting out and doing things that satisfies her. What satisfies Catherine is the extra time she gets to spend with the love of her life b...
The film that is being used for the movie analysis is “Enough”, this movie was chosen due to the fact that it is based on domestic violence towards women. The movie begins with in Los Angeles diner were a waitress named slim works with her best friend Ginny (Kazan, 2002). While working her shift slim has a customer that starts harassing her over the name she has, but the companion of the annoying customer defends slim, which in turn starts a romance, later to become a marriage between the two (Kazan, 2002). The couple is later blessed with a daughter they name Gracie, and at the beginning the marriage seems to be a fairy tale out of a story book (Kazan, 2002). The fairy tale becomes a nightmare as time moves forwards for the couple,
Catherine is the first woman that Heathcliff is introduced to. He treats her well; Heathcliff has never struck her or curse her. Throughout their childhood and adolescence, the pair are inseparable. When Catherine is injured at the Linton’s he refuses to leave her side,
She called Eddie wanting to know what to do and he advises her to take one of the pills implying that it will be clear once she is on the drug (Limitless). This shows that in the movie, taking that little clear pill instantly fixes a situation. This is a view that is shared in the American society today. If you’re looking for proof, just think about how when a child is diagnosed with a hyperactivity disorder (ADD, ADHD) the doctor often immediately prescribes adderall.
Catherine's dilemma begins in an overtly conventional yet dismal setting. This is the ordered and understated fashionable New York setting where she is victim to her father's calculated disregard and domineering behaviour and of the perceptions others have of her given their economic and social positions. She is, in Sloper's words, "absolutely unattractive." She is twenty, yet has never before, as Sloper points out, received suitors in the house. Mrs. Almond's protestations that Catherine is not unappealing are little more than a matter of form and she is admonished by Sloper for suggesting he give Catherine "more justice." Mrs. Penniman, for her part, readily perceives that without Catherine's full inheritance, Morris Townsend would have "nothing to enjoy" and proceeds to establish her role in appeasing her brother and giving incoherent counsel to the courtship between Catherine and Townsend. For Townsend himself, Catherine's "inferior characteristics" are a matter of course and a means to a financial end.
A Beautiful Mind may have been developed to be a crowd-pleaser as well as a tear-jerker, because you know this is a man’s life without falsities. It is blatant and true, that’s all. This film proves that there are still instances when Hollywood-produced, big budget movies are worth a viewer's investment of time and money.