Part One (Plot Summary)
"Rain Man" directed by Barry Levinson was released in 1988.The story of this movie takes place in the United States (Cincinnati, Ohio) in 1988. Similar to John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men, the story of this movie is about friendship between two unequal men(one mentally challenged and the other, normal) that are on a journey and their friendship, but opposite to the story of the novel, the film has a happy ending.
One day, Charley, who is a successful business man, receives word that his father, a man with whom he had not spoken in years, had died back in Cincinnati, Ohio. He returns to his childhood home to take care of his father's property, only to find out that virtually all of his dad's three million dollars estate was left to an unnamed person in a 'trust'.
Charlie learns that the trust was for a person who lived in a home for the mentally disabled near his childhood house. While exploring this institution with his girlfriend, Susanna, Charlie discovers that the person to whom the trust was given is an autistic man named Raymond, who is Charlie's older brother. Charley had never known he had a brother, since his parents had never told him.
In his confusion, anger and greed, Charlie decides to take Raymond back with him. Raymond is probably not prepared to leave the institution he has lived in his entire life, but Charlie is determined to get what he thinks is his "fair share" of his father's estate. He decides to fight for legal possession of his new brother, as a way of being able to get to the three million dollars that his father had left for Raymond.
In their journey back to Los Angeles, Raymond nearly drives Charlie crazy with his autistic attitudes, but eventually, Raymond has a profound influence on Charlie, and thus Charlie eventually grows to love and accept his brother exactly as he is.
Part Two (Characterization)
Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise)
In my opinion, Charley is the main character of this movie, and the movie is about Charley, not about Raymond, because Charley is who changes.
At the beginning of the movie, Charley is hard, bitter, selfish, immature and shallow. He worships money and without paying attention to Raymond's condition, he attempts to get his brothers wealth. He kidnaps Raymond to take his wealth from him, but ironically, instead of money, he gains something more valuable.
...l of his Uncle being gone forever, “We’d driven only a few miles when I started to sob”, (299). Culver breaks down after the fact that his uncle has moved on sinks in. Jake was the only closest person he had to a father. Now, without that one father figure in his life, Culver feels lost. In Of Mice and Men, George, after shooting the one person that understood him the most, was left in shock and denial. The two, George and Culver, have lost the half of them that they will never be able to forget.
... still thinking how long is it going to take for him to stop been punish from his past lifestyle. Still in the end Charlie showed his integrity because he could of flip off and start drinking again but he only had one drink as he promise himself to have every day, and because he wanted to prove to his sister in law that he is not the same person anymore. He tried all that he could to have his daughter to move with him
As a result of Charlie’s relationship with his aunt Helen, he develops companionship issues after her death. Having had such a close relationship with her, her passing greatly affects his relationships with other people. A shy, timid, and somewhat anti-social Charlie fears getting close to somebody again after his closest friend has passed. His inability to make friends shows when he t...
his heart his Aunt Helen. Charlie loses his Aunt Helen on his seventh birthday, but what he does
Mr.Raymond is seen as an outcast because even though he came from an old and rich family, he still decides to socialize with the black community. Mr.Raymond alway drinks from his sack because people would say, “Dolphus Raymond’s in the clutches of whiskey—that’s why he won’t change his ways. He can’t help himself,...
Raymond when they leave the courthouse. He explains to them that he is not actually a drunk, and he does the things that he does because that’s what he wants to do that. This shows the children that discrimination can cause people to lie about what they want to do with their life, and people will judge you for almost anything. Mr. Raymond states that he pretends to be a drunk so people have a reason to believe he lives the way he does. He tells Scout that people would not like that he likes the way he
... mistakes. Charlie is not ready, to change himself, since he repeats his past misdeeds. It seems like he will never be able to change or be happy about what he has or had in his past. There is no money in the world, which can help him. The story "babylon revisited" has anticlimax end, and Charlie left empty handed. In life any person, who tries change has to put a lot of efforts and time, to do it. If a person wishes to change himself, the first step he has to take is to remember his past mistakes and stay away from them. A past of a person will be always a part of him. He can never escape or ignore it, but he can learn from it and change himself. Every person has to learn how to use his/her unpleasant experience of the past as an advantage, to stay away from his past misdeeds, to build a bright future.
Charlie demonstrates a socially awkward freshman in high school who has always been a wallflower. Soon into his first year of high school, he meets two friends, Sam and Patrick who teach him how to live outside his comfort zone. What nobody knows about Charlie is that he was molested by his Aunt Helen. This caused a major mental damage that lasted throughout Charlie’s life. Thankfully, Patrick and Sam were always there to support Charlie in times that Charlie felt so alone in life with no hope. The movie demonstrates throughout Charlie’s first year in high school that true friends will always be there for one another, that child abuse can cause many mental illnesses, and that family is the number one support system.
He doesn’t lack of encourage anymore, he has overcome his fear and despair. “I have to go. I have to disobey every impulse and leave her for Jasper Jones, for Jack Lionel, for this horrible mess.” We see a different Charlie from his determination. From escape to face up, he shows us more responsible. From helpless to assertive, he comes to realize what he really wants. He knows the dark side of human nature and this unfair and cold world. His innocent, his perfect world has been destroyed by those horrible things; because of these, he knows the part of real world, he knows how the ‘dark’ actually changes this world, his friends, his family, included
The night Laura Wishart was found dead, Charlie changed as a person: he started to see everything in a different light, even his home life. He comes to terms with his mother; he realises that her personal issues are being taken out on him and dominating their family life. Ruth Buc...
The film chronicles the histories of three fathers, and manages to relates and link their events and situations. First is Mitchell Stephens and his relationship with his drug-addict daughter. Second is Sam, and the secret affair he is having with his young daughter Nicole. He is somewhat of a narcissistic character because of his preoccupation with himself and pleasing himself, and his lack of empathy throughout the film for the others in the town. Third is Billy, who loves his two children so much that he follows behind the school bus every day waving at them. Billy is also having an affair with a married woman who owns the town’s only motel. On the exterior the town is an average place with good people just living their lives. But, beneath all the small town simplicity is a web of lies and secrets, some which must be dealt with in the face of this tragedy.
Charlie struggles with apparent mental illness throughout his letters, but he never explicitly addresses this problem. His friends make him realize that he is different and it is okay to be different from everyone else. This change in perspective gives Charlie new opportunities to experience life from a side he was unfamiliar with. Without these new friends, Charlie would have never dared to try on the things he has. His friends have helped him develop from an antisocial wallflower to an adventurous young man who is both brave and loyal. Transitioning shapes how the individual enters into the workforce, live independently and gain some control over their future
Duncan Schaffer and Lorraine Quarrles represent all that wrong with Charlie's life. Charlie attempts to steam forward and like a anchor they keep him moored in place. I can not truly sympathize with Charlie though there is a sense of empathy within me. I sense that with Lincoln Peters also.
Drugs, Sex, and Rocky Horror Picture Show. Charlie, a 15 year old boy, was never normal. The book starts up with him recovering from the suicide committed last year of his best friend. To cope with this horrific event Charlie writes letters to this one person, in which we never truly figure out who. Charlie is an incoming freshman to his high school; he cannot connect to anyone expect for his English teacher, Bill. This could be because of Charlie’s late Aunt Helen in which he was attached to very much. After a few classes, Bill realizes that Charlie is not very sociable and encourages his to become involved in high school events. This is where Charlie’s adventures truly begin. While at a football game, Charlie meets Patrick and Sam, they introduce Charlie to drugs and alcohol. Throughout the whole book Charlie and Sam play cat and mouse in their relationship, their relationship flourishes right before Sam heads off to college and they have one last night to reconnect with not only each other but with their inner soul. As Sam slides her hand up Charlie’s leg, Charlie has a flashback of something morbid and freaks out. The next day Charlie says his goodbyes to Sam; as she drives off he has a mental breakdown, the next thing you know Charlie blackouts and finds himself in a hospital. After going through therapy he finds out his suppressed memory of his Aunt Helen sexually abusing him when he was younger. A couple of days go by and Charlie forgives his Aunt Helen for she has done to him and Charlie searches in himself to conclude that he himself is a Wallflower.
Rain Man is an extraordinary movie based on a true story about Kim Peek, who has autism and savant syndrome. In the movie Kim Peek is renamed to Raymond Babbit who is played by Dustin Hoffman. Charlie Babbit played by Tom Cruise who is Raymond’s younger brother. The movie starts out with the two brother’s father who had died. Charlie at the time of his father’s death did not know he had this older brother. Charlie going over his father’s will, wanted to know why he did not get his father three million dollars that he had left someone else. After Charlie discovers who has all of this money he finds the person in a mental institution. As Charlie discovered that this person in the mental institution is his brother. While Charlie is visiting his newly found brother Charlie is going through Raymond’s baseball cards and Raymond gets angered by how he misplaces them and then Raymond puts them back in the exact same order he has had them. After all of this Charlie decides to kidnap him so that he can get all the money that Raymond is worth. As Charlie is taking his brother back to Los Angles Charlie discovers how smart Raymond is with numbers by watching him count every single toothpick that was dropped on the ground in a matter of seconds. As this movie goes on you discover how Raymond isn’t...