Movie Analysis : When A Man Loves A Woman

The movie When a Man Loves a Woman is about a couple Michael, a pilot, and Alice, a school teacher, Green and their love story when Alice Green is diagnosed an alcoholic and goes to in-patient treatment. The family is forced to adjust to their new circumstance when Alice goes to treatment, but also when she returns home. The two daughters have a huge part to play in the movie as well and the effects addiction can have on children. Jess is the oldest around eight years old and is Alice’s daughter from a previous relationship, however, Michael treats her like his own. Casey is the youngest and is the daughter between Michael and Alice.

Suspecting that something is seriously wrong, and without the knowledge of her husband, John, Alice goes to see her doctor who refers her to a neurologist. After testing, Alice receives the stunning diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer 's. It is both numbing and terrifying for her. She is 50 years old. Alice struggles to tell John, who is a cancer cell biologist, because telling him will make it all "real". When she does, his reaction is almost cerebral and clinical. At first reluctant to believe her, John offers Alice no comfort. Instead he tells her he needs to find out more about Alzheimer 's.

In the film, When a Man Loves a Woman, Meg Ryan plays the character Alice Green. Alice is a wife, mother, and school counselor. She is married to the handsome and consistently dependable airline pilot, Michael, played by Andy Garcia. The film illustrates how alcoholism affects a family. Despite the fact that Alice is an exciting and fun person, she is often reckless when drunk and very negligent to her children. She has a difficult relationship with her mom, and alluded that her dad drank excessively and that her mom made her “feel like nothing” (Mandoki, 1994). Alice’s mom makes passive-aggressive remarks such as, after asking Alice if she has lost weight and she says no, “you must be tired” (Mandoki, 1994). As the movie proceeds, the viewer sees multiple occasions where alcohol causes problems with her family. Alice, Michael, and their children, who are sweet and adoring of their parents, live a comfortable life in San Francisco. All the same, Alice drinks too much and is diagnosable as an alcoholic.

The film starts off with the protagonists’ encounter in a baseball tournament. Invitation communication begins with Gary asking Brooke if she would like to have a hotdog. On relationship meaning level, it reflects Gary’s interest in knowing Brooke. By the end of the tournament, Gary tries to ask her out, exploring the possibilities for a relationship with her. Despite Brooke calling him “crazy”, she still chuckles and responds to Gary’s pick-up lines, hinting that Brooke is not totally uninterested. It is quickly followed by the opening credits with intimate photos that captured the intensifying communication stage between the protagonists. Their long term commitment takes the form of cohabitation, thus completing the escalation phase of

Anna is Alice’s oldest daughter; she’s a successful lawyer and is married to Charles, also a lawyer. Anna is strong and fiercely independent just like her mother. Anna deals with her mother’s disease by suggesting that if her mom “thinks for a second” then maybe she’ll be able to remember things (p. 173). Anna, however still makes time to care for her mom when her dad is away.

The movie I Love You, Man is a romantic comedy about a man named Peter Klaven who, upon becoming engaged to marry his girlfriend of 8 months, realizes he has no male friends and therefore has nobody to be the best man at his wedding. He decides to change this, and thus goes on a sort of journey to find a male friend good enough to be his best man. He struggles through meeting several different men, but does not find anyone he really likes until he meets Sydney Fife, an investor and guy who Peter takes interest in. The movie details their friendship as it forms, and ultimately Peter finds a friend who is not only worthy of being his best man, but is also someone he becomes close enough to to say ‘I love you, man.’

In the movie “Love, Etc…”, Chitra and Mahendra are both Indians and has been engaged for 2 years. Their wedding is planned to be on July 4. Chitra and Mahendra first met each other at his brothers’ wedding. They danced with each other all night and that’s how they started talking. They stay with each other in an apartment in Jamaica Hills. Chitra is 28 years of age and is a corporate paralegal. She started working straight out of college. She does not like to get yelled at or to even think she is not right. She is also very opinionated about everything. Chitra likes when things are done right then instead of when you want to do them. She is the only one working and paying the bills around the household. Mahendra is 29 years of age and currently has no job, but wants to be a law attorney. He is currently looking for a job. He is very opinionated about everything as well. Mahendra does not like to do things when people ask him to, he feels he should do them on his own or when he wants to. He does not like to clean up around the house or even wash dishes. Mahendra does not even do what his parents Daisy and Sonny. Chitra and Mahendra mothers are both nannies. Their moms have known each other for about 17 years. Chitra’s mother, Dolly are so much alike each other. Her father Vick even told Mahendra not to try to win an argument with women because you will not win. He even said that he just does what is told to him. This relationship between Chitra and Mahendra shows

She’s recently moved due to her father’s new job at a larger university and is dealing with the changes that come along with uprooting yourself from where the majority of your life has taken place. She’s incredibly self-conscious about her weight and has little to no friends. During the summer after several long and excruciating months of loneliness, Alice happens to run into one of her old acquaintances while she’s staying with her grandparents and is invited to a yearbook signing party. Alice is beyond ecstatic but party is not all it’s cracked up to be and Alice’s coca-cola is spiked with LSD without her consent. This small action sets off a chain of irresponsible events that lead to Alice’s forced admission into a mental hospital near the end of the book.

She is hard on herself, often even blaming herself for being taken away by Ray. She thinks that she is a stupid little girl, a girl that should not even be alive. Alice contemplates each and every day to stick that haunting kitchen knife into her heart. She is only filled with pain,

As kids get older they get exposed to so many new things. And that is what the novel is showing the reader. The novel allows the reader to view how Alice grows up in 2 years and all the things she goes through. Another important theme is difficulties of communication. Alice is never able to talk to anyone about her feelings which is why she writes in a diary. Also drugs and alcohol are a reoccurring theme because those are the two things that mess with Alice’s life the most. Identity is also a main theme because there is quite some soul searching and self-indulgent whining in the novel. Alice definitely has an almost non-existent self-esteem, so her sense of identity is determined by the people she surrounds herself with. And the last theme that stands out more than others is lies and deceit. One of them main ways Alice is able to pull off her shenanigans is because of a healthy dose of self-deception and some series denial. The whole time she is doing wrong things, she is lying to herself and her loved

When yelling at herself for crying, she becomes the parental side of Alice. With no parent in sight, she becomes her own parental

Go Ask Alice is a real life look of the life of a drug addict. The book was originally published in 1971, it gives you a sympathetic description of a 15 year old girl’s dive into a life of drugs that still repeats in today’s teen culture. The book is mostly written in first person from her early days as an innocent child whose only worries was trying to fit in and image, to life on the street trying to find the next fix. It also gives details about how she tries to get back sober.

     Alice’s drug addiction drives her along with her family insane. She has to fight a

History - The relationship we are focusing on is from the movie “Think like a Man Act like a Woman". Michael Hanover is a hardworking, successful man who states his short term goal is to improve himself and find someone to share his life with. He was raised by a single parent, his mother. Candice is a single mother of one. She works night shifts at the hospital as a nurse.

The movie When A Man Loves A Woman depicts the journey of Alice, a mom, wife, and alcoholic as she comes to term with her disease, and seeks treatment. At the beginning of the movie, it is not easy to tell that Alice does in fact struggle with alcohol addiction. She is a lively and energetic lady that has a large sense of humor that seems to be equally shared with her husband, Michael. As the movie progresses, it shows the fear and worry that her oldest daughter, Jess, has about her mother and her disease. Morning after morning, Alice wakes up and fights a hangover, only to come home and find any reason to drink again.