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One Fine Day Defensiveness

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“One Fine Day” Movie Analysis For the movie analysis this week I chose to watch the movie “One Fine Day” starring George Clooney as Jack Taylor and Michelle Pfeifer as Melanie Parker. These two single, divorced parents have one very interesting day when they must juggle helping one another in taking care of each of their children for an entire work day. Although these two leading roles play opposites, they may have met their match when it comes to love. The plot of the movie is on an extremely chaotic day, when two unwitting parents set forth a series of events. In the beginning, Jack Taylor’s ex-wife leaves for her honeymoon with her new lover and leaves their daughter Maggie for him to take care of for the week. Jack doesn’t call Melanie to tell her he has Maggie and will be taking her to school, so both Maggie and Melanie’s son Sammy end up missing their school bus for their fieldtrip. Both parents go their separate ways before running into each other at a drop off day care center. When the kids call to be picked up due to children talking about LSD and using the f-word, the two parents are forced into helping one …show more content…

“Defensiveness is a reaction that aims to protect one’s presenting self by denying responsibility” (Adler, pg. 370). Jack at one point stresses to Melanie that he did certain things like thrusting his newspaper column into her face to impress her, not to give him an excuse for forgetting to call her about his daughter. Defensiveness is defined as “the attempt to protect a presenting image a person believes is being attacked” (Adler, G-4). Melanie defends herself to Jack when she says that she isn’t a control freak, she is just a single working mother. It’s obvious in this scene that he is insinuating that he thinks she is a control freak, so she responds to defend

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