As noted previously, friendship turns to be the common thread among the three selected films. This particular featured theme is common in children’s film. Friendship also helps individual to build certain emotions such as caring, courage, confidence, love, and hope. The three selected films, in my observation have shown that friendship relates to growing, developing, and nurturing what Bloch identified as the expectant emotions. The expectant emotions according to Bloch are emotions which are not easily satisfied and “essentially imply a real future” (75). Thus those emotions needs to be grown, developed, and nurtured. Fear, anxiety, hope, and belief as the expectant emotions are strongly present in WALL∙E, Mars Needs Moms, and Home. It is …show more content…
Besides hope, love is also generated from the interaction of the characters in the films. However, it does not necessarily mean love of the opposite sexes like what seemingly happens in WALL∙E (WALL∙E is considered male and EVE is female). What generally depicted in the story is love of family. The friendship bond of the protagonists in the films also surpasses the ‘merely friendship’ for it grows to be a family bond as depicted in Mars Needs Moms and Home. Milo, Gribble, and Ki in Mars Needs Moms and Tip and Oh in Home have demonstrated that through friendship certain expectant emotions are established. Of course from their interactions negative expectant emotions are also present. Fear and anxiety overwhelm all the characters in the films. Oh, for example, experiences both anxiety and fear as he is torn between helping Tip to locate her mom or to join his fellow Boov escapade. Indeed, Oh chooses to join his fellow Boov at first but then he comes back to Earth because of the perception that family never leaves each other. His friendship with Tip has generated him a certain emotion, love of family and this is what lacks from their community, caring and loving for each other. Oh explains to his fellow Boov how he learns to care about each other from Tip, the fellow human who is previously considered as simple and backwards by the Boov.
In the story, "The View of Me From Mars," Lee K. Abott writes a story about a father and son relationship. In this story the father realizes that he isn't perfect and tries to have his son cover up his own mistake. Lee K. Abott, though being subtle, makes it known, through the characters he uses, that a person can't believe everything he sees. The author successfully enlightens the reader with his use of point of view, characterization, and theme to make the reader feel sympathy and to give the story credibility.
It 's not always about how things look on the outside, but more about your inner self. More about getting those individuals to believe in themselves.The film helped me to see the value of building up self esteem. I know in math some of the kids that say they don’t like math just had a bad experience with it. Usually I’ll try and give them something simple just to start to let them feel a sense of accomplishment. Then I usually will continue to build from there. This film never gets old. It’s still very relatable today and a young audience would be able to see themselves in any of those characters. This film reminded me that kids are coming to class with many different experiences, emotional phases, as well as insecurities. I must remain cognizant of them along with continuing to be that positive role model they need. I would recommend this film to anyone that has kids they would like to keep encouraged as well the ones they believe are
According to this theory, external forces can influence the development of emotions. A child can mature a lot quicker when they are placed in an environmen...
Again striving to be better is the key here strengthening the utopian impulse in this specific film. Moreover, after the Martians witness a touching of mother and son’s moment between Milo and his mom, it brings them to realize how mother’s love is more than everything and that it is the right way to raise a child, by having a mother not a nannybot. In conclusion, two challenges presented in Mars Needs Moms are accomplished, the current immediate private challenge of saving Milo’s mom and the future collective challenge of restoring the Martians life.
After a more detailed examination of the stories, however, it becomes evident that each individual is striving to find love. Though love is a universal goal, each person's criteria for a meaningful, fulfilling and loving relationship varies. This is clearly demonstrated by the different situations in which the characters find themselves. The conventional, stereotypical, and almost cliché demonstration of love can be seen in stories A & D, where the characters simply "fall in love and get married".
...d areas, including sympathy/empathy unresponsiveness and its negative outcomes, are the topics for future researches that can help us develop our understanding of emotional responses to fiction and emotional education. The fact that most of the concepts related to the issue raised in the text can refer to numerous types of processes implies on needing and developing other theories and researches. Therefore, in my opinion, in his essay “Empathy and (Film) Fiction” Alex Neill well-studied the concept of identification, empathy and emotional response to the film and, moreover, visualized the new “fresh” understanding of the significant value of the empathetic responses.
Not many children’s movies show children how the brain develops, stores memories and works in day to day life, but Inside Out does just that. Within this hour and a half movie the psychology topics of long term memory, short term memory, emotions, and development is all include. Although it is very clear Inside Out indulges on these psychological topics throughout the movie, memory and emotions take the spotlight. Developmental psychology may not be as obvious, but is still in several of the scenes in Inside Out.
The purpose of this project is to determine how the movie relates to material covered in Personality Adjustment EPS 591. I will report observations pertaining to humanistic, behaviorist, and psychoanalytic theories of personal development of the character
I chose to analyze Despicable Me, an animated film geared towards a younger audience, because I was interested in examining underlying theories and messages that this film would be relaying to its viewers. Often times, when watching animated films, children are not aware of these messages, as they are absorbed by the characters, special effects, and humor. But as we have learned throughout this semester, our brains are subconsciously primed by the various surroundings we are exposed to. Since we also studied the impacts of entertainment, such as television and video games, on children, I wanted to see how a popular children’s film might also affect them.
The brief film, For the Birds, produced by Pixar Films, represents the acts and consequences of bullying. The plot of the film gives the audience the opportunity to take away a very meaningful message from a comical kid’s film. The film presents its message in a way that is manageable to comprehend, because it was meant for adolescent onlookers. However, it does not matter whether someone is young or elderly, For the Birds sends all viewers the same message.
Emotions. Everyone experiences them. No matter how old you are, or where you are from we all have emotions; however, we all experience them differently. My happiness is different than your happiness and what you find sad, I might see it as being angry. Emotions are powerful, and sometimes it feels at times that they take control of us. In our culture, there are lot of norms of what is supposed to be expected with our emotions. It is expected in the United States to be in a state of happiness. Going to the opposite side there has been a big rise in Depression, especially among young adults. For one it is normally expected that you feel one way or another way toward something. Emotions are hard to capture, even more so they are very difficult to put into picture. The film Inside Out, however, is able to break down emotion so that even younger kids can better understand them. Parallelism exists a lot between Inside Out and the American idea of how we are supposed to feel. The film, Inside Out, shares parallels to the United States, as it symbolizes the importance of feeling more than one emotion, it shows the effect of depression among the youth, and the sense to always feel happy.
The film captures each of the characters in their quiet moments. It shows glimpses of who they are as individuals and then slowly works to bring them together and express the enchantment of their relationship. They both have a longing to find love, but they don't state an expectation that they will definitely find it someday, which is refreshing. That naivety comes across as honorable when they do discover a cherished
Fabe, Marilyn. "Psychological Themes." Closely Watched Films: An Introduction to the Art of Narrative Film Technique. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California, 2004. 105-10. Print.
Growing up, we are introduced and raised around cute fairytale Disney movies such as “Cinderella”, “Sleeping Beauty”, “The Little Mermaid”, and many more. As children, we believe that everything we see in movies good or even sometimes bad, will happen to us, at least once, during our lifetime. We don’t realize but as we get older, we have become completely oblivious as to how these movies have corrupted our views on how to live our lives, romantically and socially. For example, as little girls most of us believe that we will grow up to be princesses and live in our own kingdom. As we get older we come to realization that that’s impossible but we still hold on to the idea and hope for our perfect endings. As writer David Derbyshire states in
Movies take us inside the skin of people quite different from ourselves and to places different from our routine surroundings. As humans, we always seek enlargement of our being and wanted to be more than ourselves. Each one of us, by nature, sees the world with a perspective and selectivity different from others. But, we want to see the world through other’s eyes; imagine with other’s imaginations; feel with other’s hearts, at a same time as with our own. Movies offer us a window onto the wider world, broadening our perspective and opening our eyes to new wonders.