What Maisie Knew

To complete the movie analysis assignment I decided to use a fantasy comedy movie called Matilda (1996 Film) by Danny DeVito. Matilda family is an ordinary family with a mother, father and a brother. Matilda Wormwood is a genius girl, who lives with both of her parents. Her father Harry, who is a car salesman and Zinnia the mother, who has a tremendous love and need of playing bingo, and her older brother Michael. During this film we can observe different types of family dynamics such as gender factors. For

“Why Did I Get Married?” directed and produced by Tyler Perry is a movie based on four couples who take a reunion vacation to the Colorado Mountains in order to reunite with friends from college. On this vacation things didn’t go according to plan. Throughout the movie there was heartbreak, infidelity, suppressed feelings, conflict, and secrets raging throughout each of the couples’ relationship in some aspect. With these unfortunate events occurred at various times throughout the film it cause their trip to evolve from a place to relax, enjoy friends, and time off from work into an emotional and tense atmosphere with the involved couple seeking validation from the other couples on the reason why their marriages are the way they are. Even though the movie ended on a good note in their celebration of Janet Jackson’s character (Pat) receiving an award one of the marriages did not survive. This couple’s relationship will be my focus for this paper.

Women are taught from a young age that marriage is the end all be all in happiness, in the short story “The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin and the drama “Poof!” by Lynn Nottage, we learn that it is not always the case. Mrs. Mallard from “The Story of an Hour” and Loureen from “Poof!” are different characteristically, story-wise, and time-wise, but share a similar plight. Two women tied down to men whom they no longer love and a life they no longer feel is theirs. Unlike widows in happy marriages Loureen and Mrs., Mallard discover newfound freedom in their respective husband’s deaths. Both stories explore stereotypical housewives who serve their husbands with un-stereotypical reactions to their husband’s deaths.

* As the boat moves along the river Leah reminisces about when Dad was dying. We find out all the details and that Leah was mad with her mum after her dad dies. As the boat trip becomes “over” there is a connection with her father’s passing. Leah says, “We’ve been through a lot eh?” They are starting to heal and become closer to one another.

The director uses voice overs and cinematography perceptively to emphasise the challenges of family relationships. In the film before Chris and his sister Carnie go to the lunch with his parents he reads her a poem- “She’s the wrong woman, he's the wrong man. You are going to do bad things to children,

A familial bond cannot be broken. As genetics pass from one end of the family tree to another, a series of exchanged physical and–more significant in terms of the story–behavioral traits, moreover, make themselves apparent. From each member of the complicated maternal chain consisting of three narrators, their behavioral traits and tendencies are easily taken advantage of, along with making them prone to grievous mistakes and overall actions. The topics of betrayal and subsequent neglect are present in an almost unavoidable continuous cycle throughout Michael Dorris’ A Yellow Raft on Blue Water, as each generation of women faced a series of abrupt and unforeseen deceptions by those either in an influential position in their lives or those possessing their trust, leading to damaged and unresolved relationships.

Opening: The key to a successful relationship includes both verbal and physical communications. John Monteire, Macnolia’s husband, has a hard time achieving this balance between communications. John relies heavily on diction to convey his feelings. Lastly, John institutes changes in the shape of the text and uses imagery to display his use of physicality.

She has offered direction and guidance to those who have experienced abuse within a relationship. With the skills of a marriage counselor, Madea leads the other actors down the path of improvement and forgiveness with their spouse. In the play, Madea’s nephew Sunny can’t seem to let go and accept that his wife is having a secret affair. Madea’s wise words comfort Sunny when she explains “Somebody wanna walk out your life, let them go!” This was one of the many lessons clearly understood by the audience as many clapped and shouted in response to her request. Not only did she teach her nephew that life goes on and to let go of anything that’s not worth holding on to, but she opened the eyes of many viewers. Her realism always keeps her family returning to her when in need. They trust that Madea will always tell them the absolute truth for their own good, no matter the situation, and without any

Waiting to Exhale, produced by Forest Whitaker, based on Terry McMillan’s novel, is a movie with many strong themes, most of them associated with people rather than ideas. The film details the trials and tribulations of four women searching for “Mister Right”. Several themes such as racism, feminism, the search for true love, and the connection between friends all are brought to light with this movie. However, the theme of commonality stuck out most to me as I watched this film. Every woman, Robin, Gloria, Savannah, and Bernadine, all have different lives; however, they all have something in common: they are searching for love in all the wrong places.

The first course concept is family communication, more specifically how step-parents deal with their “adolescent children.” Even though they are older, both characters are extremely immature. Some of the common problems that step families experience are shown in this movie and McCornack

A young, married couple, part of this family also, is also struggling because the man is thinking on leaving. His wife is pregnant, but he believes the child is not his. She was rape, and this has drawn them apart. Two more women, are part of this family. They come to the island from the main land on the day the movie describes. One of them is religious; she believes in Jesus Crist. This is another struggle between religious traditions. The other women left the Island long ago to live in the main land. In this day she was coming back to her land to stay, to rediscover herself. However, she got rejected by many women in the family. They consider her a traitor because she left. The younger women accept her because they are more open-minded.

In Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ 2006 movie Little Miss Sunshine, they depict the tribulations of a dysfunctional family trying to get their daughter to a beauty pageant, while encompassing strong portrayals of common issues in the United States today. It communicates the individual’s struggle to be perfect, as well as the difficulties of the average middle class family in society. In this paper I will analyze three characters; Olive, Dwayne, and Richard Hoover, identifying their life stages, psychosocial development, role in the family and their resiliency through the stories challenging circumstances.

The film explores the subject of mutual need which exists between the old man and the child. The old man needs someone in his life to cure his loneliness and a heir to inherit his art whilst the child longs for a home and compassion (Stack, 1999). Both of their needs are satisfied when their lives cross and they begin living together in Wang's small riverboat home.

Two sets of families filled with emotions, hopes, and promises to embark on separate journeys. Anticipating the feelings and emotions of meeting up with their loves ones. Different situations cause for different reactions, with similar causes. The short story “A Pair of Tickets” written by Amy Tan and the story “Everyday Use” written by Alice Walker both gives insight on the true gut wrenching feelings behind the importance of family and how a mother’s opinion can affect the actions and mindset of her children. Each story has a common foundation, but splits into separate routes. Noting these similarities and differences can truly help us understand how a family’s past can affect each piece of the future.

that she has an influence on her own future.  She begins to develop what she