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.
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
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.
The movie On Golden Pond, is a representation of the different psychosocial stages society goes through as people age. In the movie, various characters face distinctive crises as they reach a psychosocial stage, which bring tension in the movie. During the movie each character goes through different life challenges such as cognitive and psychosocial developments, which will lead to more appreciation each character’s lives.
The pursuit of truth has driven him to explore the best ways and practices that can improve the human life and enhance understanding to identify the underlying cause of world ills. He demonstrates the heart and not the brain may be the man’s primary source of intelligence. He continued to argue that human consciousness and emotions may affect the world of reality. The reaction of his heart to a bowl of yogurt may appear humorous, but has great impression in our lives and that money is not a pathway to happiness but in some culture's gross materialism is a symbol of insanity. The film discovers that human life is better when expression of positive emotions such as love, care, compassion, and gratitude than other negative emotions of stress, anxiety and depression. Furthermore, it proves that consensus decision-making is a norm among all species.
Through these, the portrayal of the complex nature of happiness is shown to contribute to the enduring value of the film through the realistic style of the film and by showing different perspectives on the same person showing the audience that different people view actions in different
The cadets at the Citadel feel this loss of love when they leave their mothers behind at the gates. Over the course of a few months, the boys change so much in their love with the upperclassmen that “‘Mothers can’t even tell their sons apart’” (Faludi 98). The Freshman’s new and harsh experiences make them want to latch on to their mothers, but the only people around are the other boys. As a result, they make connections with the upperclassmen because they want the love that they are being deprived of. While the love they form is like the one they had with their mothers, it is not a perfect replacement. Love can also seem unhealthy here because the boys are simply sustaining a love they cannot have. However, their relationship still opens them up for connections with these other boys they may not have had before. The boys need this love so much that it is better to replace it, even if it is not perfect, than to fall into a pit of despair without it. On the other hand, love is not always so easily replaced in the way the cadets replace their mothers. The children in “Alone Together” find that “They don’t like having a new creature in the same egg where their virtual pet has died. For them, the death of a virtual pet is not so unlike the death of what they call a “‘regular pet’” (Turkle 466). To them this love is not replaceable, if it is not the same it is not good enough. However, what makes love so amazing is that people do not need to have the same love with each person. It is why the kids can pick up different Tamagotchi toys but not reset the same one. If they reset the same one they expect the same type of love. Although, if they get a new one, they are simply replacing that love because they want to feel love in general. Replaceable love does not always have to involve the person but it can revolve around changing the type of love they had.
Love is often misconstrued as an overwhelming force that characters have very little control over, but only because it is often mistaken for the sum of infatuation and greed. Love and greed tread a blurred line, with grey areas such as lust. In simplest terms, love is selfless and greed is selfish. From the agglomeration of mythological tales, people deduce that love overpowers characters, even that it drives them mad. However, they would be wrong as they would not have analyzed the instances in depth to discern whether or not the said instance revolves around true love. Alone, true love help characters to act with sound reasoning and logic, as shown by the tales of Zeus with his lovers Io and Europa in Edith Hamilton’s Mythology.
The debate over the good and bad aspects of Disney movies has been going on for years. It has become a part of pop culture in a way never expected through things such as YouTube videos and meme’s. While looking at multiple Disney movies may give a wider range of example of both the good and the bad in Disney movies, to help depict the effects the movies actually have on kids it is most beneficial to study just one movie. Zia’s essay argues that Disney movies have a good influence on children by teaching them good life morals. However, one of her examples, Mulan, is not an example of achievement through hard work like Zia explains, but rather a change made through magic, and example of the horrible historical inaccuracies made in Disney movies and the lack of parental respect that they teach children.
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
Few months ago, there was a huge impressing movie to me, which was named Inside Out, and it is an animation movie, and focused on adults. Inside Out is also fifteenth animation movie that Global animation company, Pixar, released. Their ambitious work, Monster University, failed to gain a number of audiences, so Pixar had resting period for two years. As the result, people worried about that Pixar might have been collapsed. However, two years later, according to this movie, Pixar informed they are still alive by obtaining many audiences. This movie completely gave me a good lesson and realization that how much and why all emotions are needed and important.
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.
Mary and Max tells the heart warming tale of a lonely 8 year old girl from Australia and a 44 year old man plagued by Aspergers and anxiety who are able to develop a friendship through writing letters. Mary Daisy Dinkle loves three things: her pet rooster, sweetened condensed milk, and the Noblets, a children’s tv show. With parents absent from her life and the kids at school bullying her for her birthmark, Mary is only able to find solace in someone thousands of miles away. Max Jerry Horowitz also loves Noblets, chooses the same lottery tickets every time and suffers from anxious overeating and not being able to understand others due to his Aspergers. While Mary’s demand for advice is often a heavy burden, Max is still grateful for his only friendship with Mary. After premiering at the Sundance festival in 2009, Mary and Max went on to receive a few small awards within its own genre. Despite its lack of international success, Mary and Max has still been able to grip the hearts of those who have viewed it. With not only holding a unique entertainment factor, but also a gripping message, it is important to analyze what makes Adam Elliot’s Mary and Max such a powerful film.
...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.
New Boy is a short film that envelops the viewer into a third person character and leads viewers to experience how it feels to be an outsider “The New Boy”, the audience experiences this feeling through the Protagonist 's mind in this case “Joseph.” This short film not only focuses on the idea of bullying but also the idea of being an outsider.The positioning of the title “New Boy” on the left-hand side of the frame indicates that the new boy will be powerless.
The documentary follows ten four, five and six year olds, exploring how children make and break friendships, share, stand up for themselves, find themselves, and find their place in a social group.