Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Essay

A system is a set of interrelated parts. Systems theory assumes that a system must be understood as a whole, rather than in component parts. It is a way of looking at the world where all the objects are interrelated with one another. Many family systems are addressed in the movie Little Miss Sunshine.

The film O brother, where art thou? is set in the Great Depression of the 1930’s and emphasizes the struggle between the upper and lower classes by using a variety of cinematic devices. Through the use of these cinematic devices and comedic relief the realities of the Depression are viewed without creating a stark, melancholy, documentary-styled film. Examples in this film of these cinematic devices used to show these realities include:

The research facility further abuses its institutional power by fabricating information about Jon’s mother and using it to influence Jon emotionally. Understanding that Jon would be more inclined to stay at the research facility if he had memories of a caring mother telling him to work hard, the institution decides to conceal the truth about his indifferent biological mother and alters his memory loop with lies. Jon is not the only one whose memories have been

Morrison uses the voices of two people, lost from each other in remembrance, and brings them together by juxtaposing memory against memory until finally their recollections converge in the same episode. After a sexual encounter, Sethe and Paul D reflect on their shared experiences in slavery at the Sweet Home plantation. It is against this backdrop that both characters struggle to tackle their feelings of inadequacy. Although Sethe and Paul D share their memories, there is only so much that they are willing to divulge since "[s]aying more might push them both to a place they couldn't get back from" (Morrison 72). While Paul's coping mechanism is to place all of his painful memories in the tobacco tin buried in his chest, Sethe's coping mechanism is prevention. The characterizations of Sethe, Paul D, and Sethe's daughter Denver continue through the use of flashbacks. By juxtaposing memory with scenes from the present, Morrison offers a better understanding of Denver and her reaction to Paul D. Lonely and troubled, she finds solace inside her own small world and connection to the memories her mother has shared with her regarding her birth. Denver feeds her hunger through these memories as well as through perfume and the boxwood arbor. It is in this first trimester that Morrison begins to connect imagery with the retrieval of past events. For all, the baby ghost acts as a catalyst for remembering the past.

In the movie Wit, English literary scholar Vivian Bearing has spent years translating and interpreting the poetry of John Donne. Unfortunately, she is a person who has cultivated her intellect at the expense of her heart. Both colleagues and students view Bearing as a chilly and unfriendly person lost in her private world of words and mysterious thoughts.

“the last name is scratched off.” Without any trace of who it belonged to, Erin felt like she had to personally return it. Following the glimpse of light, she headed towards Hartman Green. Although she hated the moist air and dampness from the rainy night before, she was thankful this time, for every spot of the that the flashes of light had crossed over became dry instantly. As Erin approached the top of the path, she caught sight of who she believed to be Leah. “HEY!” She shouted. Leah disappeared in another beam of light. Beginning to become paranoid, Erin maniacally scoped out all of her surroundings, trying to see where Leah might have gone. She saw nothing. “Something is weird about here too…” She thought, trying to find out what was. After a little while she noticed the inconsistency. What used to be a nice brick red covering the bricks of the bookstore had since bloomed to the shade of a maraschino cherry. “Leah.” She derived. “This has to have something to do with Leah.” Not wanting to lose Leah again, she broke down the path towards Stager, which was unusually empty as well. Once more, she followed the dry path, which was slowly becoming harder and harder to distinguish. “I can’t let her get away this time,” Erin thought. “when the sun passes overhead I will have no guide.” She followed the path all the way up the steps of the bookstore, now searching for the same strawberry-blonde hair she caught a glimpse of earlier. As she entered

There are multiple things that Hansberry could do to improve the quality of Walter and Beneatha’s acting. Mama and Ruth gave the audience a sense that the play was taking place

Joel Barish and Clementine Kruczynski were a couple in love. Everything changed when Clementine woke up one day and just decided to have Joel erased from her memory. He was “boring” and she wasn’t happy and wanted to move on. Joel then decided he wanted to also remove Clementine from his memory. This was all possible due to Lacuna Inc. who asked those wishing to remove a particular person from their memories to remove anything from their homes that could possibly be associated with that person. They sit the patient down, map out where memories are located that are associated with each object. Then, the company sends a couple of their scientists/psychologists to the home at night after they’ve fallen asleep. They then track down any remaining memories as they appear while asleep

Once he got back to his feet he saw a white object standing about thirty feet in front of him. He started to sprint over to where he saw the object. In his head he was having doubts that it was Clarisse and that he was seeing things. He decided that he needed to keep running because it would bother him if he was to stop. If he would stop he would never find out if it was Clarisse. Once he finally arrived at the object it was Clarisse. She was wearing all white. It was like they were meeting again for the first time. Montag yelled “Clarisse” as loud as he could. Montag went to giver her a hug but her image slowly faded away slower and slower. Montag looked to the ground and had saw that there was a dvd laying there. Clarisse was with him through the dvd. If the dvd was there and Montag was there, she would appear. Clarisse gave Montag strong instructions to the dvd with him as Clarisse would guide the crew to St.Louis. Montag was so happy to know that he could be with Clarisse again. As Montag was walking back to camp, he remembered something: And on the other side of the river was there a tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month;

Psychologically, Olive has a strong sense of attachment to her family. Olive has formed a strong emotional bond with all members of her extended family, even her stepbrother. When Olive’s brother realizes he is color blind, she provides powerful consolation to him. There are four qualities of attachment that the Hoover family exhibits; they spend a significant amount of time together, they are aware of Olive’s needs, they are committed and responsive to Olive, and they are available to her (Zastrow and Kirst-Ashman, 2010, p. 129). Olive’s parents encourage autonomous decisions, such as allowing her to

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a movie primarily about two lovers namely Joel Barish and Clementine Kruczynski. Joel, wakes up on Valentine’s Day, skips work, takes a train to Montauk, and meets Clementine. In this film Joel, a soloist meets a girl namely clementine who needs carefulness and love but their relationship ended when Joel came to know that she had erased him from her memory. Joel became sad after being aware of the situation, he was desperate and finally came to a logical solution to forget her and then he removed her from his mind as well. Joel and Clementine incidentally met again in a train and immediately drawn to each

“Significant texts in any period arise from particular ways of thinking and possess an enduring relevance.”

This movie was a pretty interesting film. I believe that it closely correlates with our society today. Every scene and every character is related to one or another in a certain sense. Majority of the film is racially charged and is based on a lot of stereotypes. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, stereotype is to believe unfairly that all people or things with a particular characteristic are the same. I would go in depth in the following about the stereotypes depicted in this movie.

Struggling with mental issues is extremely hard on the people affected by these conditions as well as their families. These struggles are only worsen by the lack of public’s literacy on some of these conditions or lack of sensitivity towards them; resulting on a steep sociocultural mountain for the mentally ill to climb. As a result, many of the affected population feel hopeless and many times misunderstood by those whom have no idea of the struggles associate with their conditions. Unfortunately, most people don’t make an effort to learn about a particular disease unless there is a vested interest. Fortunately, however, every once in a while Hollywood shines the spot light on some of these disease by creating story lines about the devastating effects of these diseases, thus, raising the public awareness as it was the case with the movie, “A Beautiful Mind.” This film is one of a growing list of films in which the central character struggles with mental issues and how they are affected by it.

The film centers on a sexual relationship between Hanna Schmitz, a woman in her mid-30s, and Michael, a boy of 15 years. The film begins in 1995 Berlin, then flashes back to another year in 1958 on a day when young Michael is found sick and feverish in the street and taken back to Hanna 's apartment to be cared for. After he recovers, he returns to the apartment building to deliver a bouquet of flowers to Hanna at her apartment and thanks her. She is matter of fact with him, but asks him to escort her to work. However, when she catches him spying on her as she dresses, he runs away in shame. When he returns to apologize a few days later, Hanna quickly seduces Michael, and the two characters begin a relationship that last only for a summer. Michael begins regularly to visit Hanna at her apartment where they have sex. Hanna mentally dominates Michael and controls the relationship. Michael falls in love with Hanna, but the emotional attachment is not reciprocated. Upon Hanna’s request, Michael begins to read aloud to her on each of his visits with the rewards of sex. He returns to her every day after school, rejecting the clear interest of girls his own age. In fact, and all their days together are obsessed with sex. Hanna makes little pretense of genuinely loving Michael, who she calls "kid," and although Michael has a helpless crush on Hanna, it should not be confused with love. He is swept away by the discovery of his own sexuality. Then one day Hanna simply disappears, and