In the next few weeks, you will need to find how psychology is incorporated in any movie or TV show. Apply the psychological concepts that we have covered in class. Don't worry if you don't catch everything. Just see what you can find in the movie/show.
Note: Do not use any movie that we have seen in class. Also, once a movie or show has been discussed by someone on the blog, you may not use that same movie or show for your blog entry.
Due: March 30
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The movie I watched was Across the Universe.
In the beginning of the movie, or a few chapters afterwards, Lucy finds out that her boyfriend is killed in Vietnam War. She endured the stage of grief, as he was her first boyfriend and the first person she knew to die. Lucy was depressed and she began to talk about how she felt with Jude and she began to fall in love with him. Lucy was conveying in this scene the idea of sense of belongingness because she clings to Jude and this happens right after her boyfriend dies. She feels alone because of his death and she wants to feel accepted and she finds this in Jude.
The movie I watched was Hitman.
The man in the movie, Agent 47, has no emotions. According to Adler, personality is determined through temperament, family atmosphere, and family constellationhis. Agent 47's lack of social interaction and emotions corresponds with this theory for in the story Agent 47 was raised to be a hitman and nothing more, with no parental love or support. His lack of emtoions, such as fear and love, aid in his ability to perform his cold job of killing. However, as the story evolves, Agent 47 becomes attracted to a woman named Nika. This corresponds with Horney's personality theory that people attempt to make life bearable and fixate on things that they need, such as love and acceptance. His attachment to her results in his desire to protect her. Her love changes him and helps him to resist killing people because of her compassion for others. Freud would see this as a change to Agent 47's superego, the moral part of him developing due to the ethical restraints placed on him by Nika.
Alrighty then. Well I love the series "Dexter." It's pretty hot.
Dexter is the story of a criminal mastermind whom lives a double life as a detective. He likes to kill the killer, than inspect and see his own personal work, and how it affects other people. This could be an example of Anti-social personality disorder.
Dexter is Anti-Social because on top of killing and inspecting, Dexter feels nothing towards anyone nor anything. He is emotionless. THis could go against the social norm in life. Most people if they killed someone or soemthing, would feel extreme anxiety or at least have SOME regret. But this kiddo does not.
ANTI-SOCIAL!!!
Also, at the UIL One Act Play Competition, the Judge said that he was quoting Freud when he said," The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change" in regards that the actors needed to feel more with themselves. But this quote was from Carl Rogers.
Yeah, I went there
The TV show I watched was Friday Night Lights.
One of the main characters, Tim Riggins, has absentee parents. His dad was an alcoholic and left and I'm not sure what happened to his mom. Tim lives with this older brother, who is rarely home to look after him. Tim usually skips school and drinks a lot, or when he does go to school he gets in trouble. He becomes involved in illegal activites, and eventually ends up living with a drug dealer. I say the reason for this may be because of the way he was brought up, the way he was "nurtured". If he had parents guiding him in the right direction he wouldn't have ended up in his situations. Also, some may be account of "nature". The reason he drinks a lot might be because of his dad being an alcoholic, and he's recieved those genes.
So I watched the movie The Mist.
It showed exactly what would happen if you were to confine people into a space together and scare the crap out of them.
These people, who were in a small town, were extremely prejudiced. They wanted anwsers as to why the mist had fallen upon them, the "answer" came from a woman who was a very overtly religious woman who preached in a tone of fire and brimstone about the end of the world. she was once seen as crazy (before these things started happening) but was then praised for her insight. She had them turn on eachother, she even tried to kill a boy and a woman. She had one of the army men, who she felt was responsible, sentenced to death. one of the main characters even said that there was a "Jim Jones in the midst. and we better leave before she passes out the jesus juice."
I forgot to point out that they were only confined for 2 days. then the mist went away.
I saw I Am Sam
THe main character Sam, is mently disabled, which falls outside the Bell curve. His mently age is 7. He loses his daughte, she seven b/c people don't think he will be able to raise her as she gets older. he hires a Lawyer,Rita, who is a workalhloic and is somewhat uninvolved in her son's life b/c of work. On of the people that helps Sam's case is Anne, she is an agoraphobic and at first is unable to testify on Sam's behalf b/c of her fear, and then she gets over the fear so Sam can get Lucy back. In the end SAm gets Lucy back.
A rebellious teenager Jake feels responsible for his father’s death and is in constant turmoil, always displaying his emotions in an aggressive fashion. Along with his mother and little brother, Jake moves to Florida to start a clean slate. Jake quickly adapts and the most attractive girl in school begins flirting with him, who happens to be the biggest B.A. girlfriend around. After losing a humiliating fist fight, Jake transforms from being care free to a highly motivated individual. He decides to train with a wise martial arts master and begins to learn the value of discipline and fighting for what is right. Jake’s arch nemesis intentionally beats up his best friend so he will challenge him in a brawl, forcing Jake to stand up for what he believes in. According to Walter Cannons “Fight or Flight” theory we all have these two internal instincts. Jake wins the fight, earns respect, and gets the girl.
In the movie Meet The Robinson's, many different defense mechanisms are employed. The Bowler Hat Guy is in denial for most of the movie, believing that Lewis should be blamed for all his problems. Other defense mechanisms shown throughout other characters are fantasy, projection, undoing, and rationalization.
Well, I loove Spongebob so I decided to do that one for my pschology movie.
Let’s start with Spongebob himself: He shows a dependant personality, since he tries to do everything to please mr krabs. He has a phobic disorder, since he is scared of the driving test and therefore doesn’t pass it all the time.
Now let’s have a look at mr krabs: Stinginess can’t be seen as a psychological problem. So Mr Krabs might be the only normal character on the show.
Let’s go on to Spongebob’s friends.
Let’s do Patrick first: At the first sight mentally retarded, there is more about him. In the Valentine’s episode, where he thought spongebob was giving everybody chocolate but him, he first got sad and then went on a rampage- clearly bipolar. At another time, he would just stop in the middle of a sentence and quit moving, which could be Catatonic Schizophrenia.
Let’s move on to Sandy
A squirrel from Texas that was sent from the NASA to the ground of the sea….We all know that the NASA doesn’t send squirrels to do ground of the ocean so we could either categorize her as a compulsive liar or maybe she suffers from dissociative fugue (could be caused by one of her many carate fights)
Now let’s go on to Squidward
Clearly narcissitic, since he has self portraits all over the house (not to mention the statues). Also experience incongruence as he sees himself as a perfect artist but in several shows the other people make it clear to him that he is not.
Gary
A snail that meows like a cat, he must definitely suffer from dissociative identity disorder.
Now let’s go on to Plankton
He sees himself as the owner of a perfect restaurant, but this doesn’t coincide with the truth, therefore he might suffer from incongruence (according to Rogers).He could also be diagnosed with Antisocial personality disorder.
I watched the movie Charlie Bartlet.
Charlie gets repeatedly kicked out of private schools for misbehaving because his father is in prison and his mother doesn't give him enough attention. His mother also drinks heavily and takes anti-depressant medications to deal with the stress of her husband being arrested for tax evasion and her grief of being alone. To make friends at school, Charlie provides his classmates with prescription drugs that he is prescibed after visiting several psychiatrists. He learns to diagnos people and pretends to have OCD or other common psychological disorder symptoms while at his psychiatrist in order to get their medicine. He eventually studies enough information about psychological disorders to get into a psychiatry school and use his skills practically.
There is a soap opera in spanish, were the protagonist is going to get married with his fiance but there is this other girl who the protagonist likes but does not accept it. the protagonist's fiance is always accusing the other girl for doing horible stuff. the progagonist "id" makes him fire the other girl whom he likes. Even though his "super ego" knows is not fair. But his "ego" makes him choose his fiance instead of the girl whom he truly loves.
Last week I watched the movie Mean Girls, and as many of you know this movie is a perfect example of social cliques throughout high school (ok, so it’s a little exaggerated).
Mean girls demonstrates the various social groups throughout high school, with the main group being The Plastics. There are also several other social groups mentioned such as the Mathletes, Sexually Active Band Geeks, and “The Coolest People You Will Ever Meet” other wise known as Janice Ian and her guy friend. Throughout the movie, the main character Caty changes her appearance and behavior in an attempt to become one of The Plastic’s. After spending much of her money on a new wardrobe, wearing makeup, purposely making bad grades, and generally changing her personality and lifestyle she is finally able to do so.
the movie i watched was i am legend.
there are alot of issues for the last man on earth. he deals with the guilt of his inability to stop the virus and he watched his son and wife die. His extreme lonliness only gets worse when his dog dies and he has no one left. You can see some of his desperation when he speaks to the mannequins in the movie store and he watches the tv news reruns.
I watched the show Friends.
i watched the episode where Phoebe recieves some heirlooms from her mom and one of the presents is a large mink coat. At first her superego takes over and forbids her to accept. She even says she will burn it. Then, she starts imitating someone high fashion person who would be wearing at and happens to see herself in the mirror and falls in love with the coat, where at this point her id takes over and she allows herself to keep and also wear the coat. Her ego is not able to compromise between the two and the id wins.
I watched Reign Over Me.
In this movie, Adam Sandlers character uses one of the defense mechanisms. He is in repressing the memories about his family dying.
The movie I watched was Cast Away.
In this movie the character gets stranded on an island and isolated from the world. He feels guilty for not spending enough time with his girlfriend. He slowly starts to talk to a volleyball which he drew a face on it and named it Wilson. He also becomes depressed because he doesn’t know if any one is going to rescue him. He also try’s to hang himself because he want to just die already. For the time being he try’s to survive and then starts to think of ways to get off the island.
Dang it, Sarah Forsberg, you took my idea! Ahwell. That was a good movie, by the way.
Well, ANOTHER movie I saw was Zoolander. It follows the story of Derek Zoolander, a living legend in the world of male modeling. But, after losing the title of "male model of the year" to the young up-and-coming Hansel, Derek enters a state of depression and tries to find meaning in his life "other than being really, really really, ridiculously good looking." After returning to his hometown to find his roots, he is contacted by this elite modeling agency, which then trains him under hypnosis to become an assassin to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia, who recently outlawed producing fashion clothing in sweatshops. After learning of the evil plot, Derek and Hansel overcome social pressures and join forces in order to defeat the evil fashion kingpin Mugatu.
in the movie silent hill the main character shows extreme paranoia through the movie because of the demons and monster things hiding around everywhere. as the film goes on she becomes increasingly paranoid and scared and becomes delusional. this shows how your environment can affect you psychologically.
The movie I watched was southpark. In the movie Kenny's parent's are almost univolved with what he does and basiccally allow him to do whatever he wants whenever he wants.
I watched an episode of The Office. In this particular episode, Michael is closing on a condo and, in turn, becoming a homeowner. When Michael leaves to office to go to the condo, Dwight asks if he can join him as his "representative." While Dwight and Michael are gone from the office, Jim and Pam set up the "Office Olympics" since each person in the office seems to have a special game that they play each time that Michael leaves. The rest of the show centers mainly on the two ongoing plots, but at the end of the episode, Michael appears uneasy about his new condo so when Jim includes Michael in the "closing ceremonies" and gives him the gold for buying a new condo, Michael is amazed.
Basically, what I noticed in this episode was that Dwight's constant need for approval from Michael falls into the category of Maslow's theory of love and belonging. Also, at the end of the show it seems that Michael experiences a sort of self-actualizing moment in his life since he has bought his new condo and finally achieved a goal of his.
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