Misery Movie Analysis

I have chosen the move Fatal Attraction to depict a character suffering from mental illness. I remember watching this movie with anticipating fear of what was going to happen. This movie is about a happy family compromised by an obsession resulting from an affair. Dan Gallagher is the husband and father in this film who has an affair with Alex Forest and then wants to end it with her. Dan has a happy life with his wife Anne and daughter Ellen, all of which Alex desires. In terms of DSM-IV, I would diagnose Alex with Histrionic Personality Disorder which falls in Axis I category. One characteristic of this is precipitating and perpetuating causes. (Baird, 2011, P. 264; P. 267) Alex appeared to be a strong woman, and may have well been, until the affair happened. This event could have been the trigger for her disorder, causing her to refuse letting him go. As such, the disorder manifested and worsened as time went on. Dan told Alex the relationship was over and that he loved his wife but Alex wanted more and would not let up. She even kidnapped their daughter, Ellen, and took her to an amusement park to live out part of her obsession with him. This leads to the second characteristic of Alex as she demonstrates excessive emotionality and manipulation. (Baird, 2011, P. 275) Alex felt she could not live without Dan and needed reassurance from him that he loved her. She wanted to step right in and take his wife’s place. Her expectations were unrealistic

“End of Watch” is a fusion of great performances and amazing action. Director David Ayer did amazing job in both directing and script writing. Ayer is perhaps more known as the director to Training day. He is a proven writer, his previous movies.

In the 1995 film Clueless, which is loosely based on Jane Austen’s Emma, shows the lives of stereotypical high school teens. This movie entails many interpersonal communication concepts. This movie included interpersonal concepts such as stereotypes, non-verbal communication, self-concept, interpersonal conflict, persuasion, verbal aggression, intercultural communication, perception, and physical appearance.

The movie, “The Pursuit of Happyness” is a film based on a true story of Chris Gardner, where Will Smith shines a tale of rags-to-riches filled with love, family, and outcome of the American dream. Chris Gardner is an American businessman, investor, stockbroker, motivational speaker, author, and philanthropist. Based on this real-life story of Chris Gardner, Will Smith takes the role of Christopher Gardner, who was a salesman struggling to satisfy the needs of his wife, Thandie Newton, and their son, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith. With the financial problems, his wife gives up the struggles, abandoning him and their son. Things get worse as Gardner and his son are evicted from their residence leaving them with no option but to try surviving on the streets of San Francisco. They are forced to move from one place to another in the bid to get a shelter wherever they are lucky to get one. The movie demonstrates us how vigorously he is eager to chase his happiness in many burdensome ways. It exhibits how Chris Gardner becomes homeless in the beginning of the movie, but later he becomes a successful dream achiever after putting all his hard work.

The film Life is beautiful was directed by Roberto Benigni in 1997. The film tells the story of a man by the name of Guido who falls in love with a woman named Dora. He is later taken to a concentration camp with his family. Guido turns the experience of the concentration camp into a game in order to hide the harsh reality of the war and many killings from his young son, Giosue .

Ponyboy tells us that,“when you’re a gang you stick up for members. If you don’t stick up stick together, make like brothers, it isn’t a gang anymore,”(Hinton 26). This is what the greasers do for each other: they stick up for one another and build a supportive community. In the story, The Outsiders, by SE Hinton, the book is about Ponyboy and his gang taking care of each other because there gang is that they fight against the Socs. The characters and actions of this story create a supportive community Kindness and Loyalty.

In 2004, John Hamburg-directed a movie named “Along Came Polly”, a romantic comedy about betrayal and love. A year later Andy Tennant conducted “Hitch”, a movie based on men attracting the opposite sex. Both films take place in New York and illustrate the emotional and physical traits the main characters experience on an everyday life. In the movie “Hitch” Alex Hitchens is a sentimental advisor, and he teaches clients how to date the woman they fell in love with. On the other hand, Reuben Feffer finds the love of his life after being cheated on by his previous bride. The films have differences such as the main characters’ careers and their personalities. Yet, it also has similarities for example, Reuben and Alex has food allergies.

Imagine being rescued after suffering a major car wreck, only to be kidnapped by your number one fan. Starring Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes, James Caan as Paul Sheldon, Richard Farnsworth as Buster, and Frances Sternhagen as Virginia, Misery is a psychological thriller produced and directed by Rob Reiner. In this 1990 psychological thriller film you will experience thrill, action, suspense, despair and misery, all powered by composer Marc Shaiman and his use of music to set the mood for the audience.

(Part 1) Thelma & Louise received mix responses from film critics when it first came out. The responses to the film were largely based on preconceived notions about how women operate in the criminal justice system. Obviously, this movie subverted a lot of these presumptions. The first issue was gender. Women had not been perceived as outlaws until this film. The whole idea of a woman in the criminal justice system did not embody what the movie portrayed. Specifically, after Thelma was sexually assaulted and Harlan was shot, the women come to the conclusion that going to the police won’t help them. They do not have faith the male dominated criminal justice system will look past Thelma’s drinking, dancing, and flirting with Harlan. In the article “Outlaw Women: An Essay on Thelma & Louise”, Elizabeth Spelman and Martha Minow said “Louise and Thelma both hear and reject the echo of societal conversations about blaming women who get raped because ‘they asked for it.’” Louise immediately acknowledges this stereotype against them which is the fact if a woman was raped, the law will view it like “she had it coming”. In other words, she was provocative in some way that established consent. Another issue concerning gender was the one of outlaw women. Normally, the traditional outlaw film contains a white male that we as the audience view as virtuous. While most probably favored what Thelma and Louise were doing, there were some points where the deviancy might have been too much.

The Grim Sleeper is a film documentary directing attention towards serial killer rapist. During the filming, Lonnie Franklin, a supposed serial killer with apparently over 25 known victims is still in the trial phase while a cameraman and Nick Broomfield, a “reporter” scrutinize and expose more secrets about the killings, the motivation behind the killings, and the people involved. The investigation requires the interrogation and assistance of locals to obtain the pieces of the seemingly impossible puzzle. Despite the case having plenty of information to put Lonnie away with many life sentences, he remains in multiple trials over a period of four years. The evidence against Lonnie clearly has not piled up enough,and given how long he has remained

The first line that opens the book of “The Road,” sets the bleak tone of the novel. When we begin reading this novel, we quickly realize that we are entering a wasteland. We start to feel the hopelessness that the characters, the man and the boy, share and we begin experiencing the dread that characters experience from day to day. When a glimpse of light makes its way through he words written on the pages, we may feel our hearts leap, but only a little, for soon something miserable or life threatening happens. In “The Road,” we experience what the world is like as a never-ending wasteland, dangers that the characters go through, and a roller coaster of sorrow, disappointment, and hopelessness.

Tim Blake Nelson’s modest “Anesthesia”, an indie drama involving intractable characters, opens with the death of a man, mercilessly mugged in Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The man in question is Walter Zarrow (Sam Waterston), a philosophy professor. He lost his life holding a beautiful flower bouquet to give to his wife, Marcia (Glenn Close), a gesture he kept repeating for years on every Friday. Through flashbacks we get to know more about Walter who was planning to retire at the end of the year, at the same time that a multitude of new characters, somehow connected to the victim, are introduced, each one of them carrying serious problems that vary from traumas to addictions, and from unsettling secrets to forbidden love affairs. At first, our eyes are fixated on Sam (Corey Stoll), the one who was next to Walter in the moment he passed away.

Based off of Kathryn Stockett’s 2009 novel, The Help is a movie told from an African American’s point of view during the early 1960’s in Jackson, Mississippi. The three main characters include, Aibileen Clark, Minny Jackson, and Eugenia (Skeeter) Phelan. Skeeter is a young writer who has recently returned from the University of Mississippi. She has been advised by the Elaine Stein, who is the head editor at Harper & Row, to write about a topic she is passionate about, that way she can continue her dream of becoming a serious writer. In addition, Skeeter accepts a writing job down at the Jackson Journal where she writes a housekeeping column. Ironically, she has no housekeeping experience as she grew up with in house help. In order to keep her job she goes to Aibileen, her friend Elizabeth Leefolt’s housekeeper. At this point in her life, Aibileen is just trying to get by. She writes out her prayers on a daily basis as a way to clear her mind since she is fairly reserved on the outside. On the contrary, Aibileen’s friend Minny is also a housekeeper, but she has a rather sharp tongue which doesn’t usually work in her favor. Consequently, she is trying to find a new employer, but is having trouble since there is a bit of discord between her and the most influential socialite in Jackson, Mississippi.

After enduring a string of abusive relationships, Jean arrives unannounced at her estranged father-in-law 's ranch in Wyoming, with her daughter Griff. Griff 's father and Jean 's late husband died years ago in a fatal car crash while Jean was behind the wheel. Her father-in-law, Einar, has never gotten over it and still blames Jean for his son 's death. Einar lives on the ranch with his business partner, Mitch, who was mauled by a bear one night when Einar was drunk. This film reflects on forgiveness and rebirth, as family members work through their problems related to various communication and relationship theories. The main characters in the film are interdependent with each other, often times seen interfering with one another in terms of conflict resolution. This paper will analyze how the main characters cooperate to keep the conflict in motion throughout the film An Unfinished Life through the use of systematic collection of information about the dynamics of conflict resolution (Conflict Assessment, n.d.).

The film Melancholia by Lars von Trier gradually develops into the character's depression through their actions and choices that can relate directly to Lars von Trier's own depression and unfortunate childhood circumstances. The main protagonist of the movie, Justine, is depressed and this affects everyone around her. Lars von Trier, the writer and director, is depressed was depressed when creating this film and this depression is reflected in Melancholia. Freudian theories relate to Melancholia through Justine's life as well as her love life. She is constantly unsatisfied and immediately has an extramarital sexual encounter when she is vulnerable. Freudian theories are demonstrated through the depression from the characters in the movie