I want same expert that it is doing assignment order ID# TTs010415_269461_2
Hello Sir David Adams, as soon as you finish with the missing requirements in my assignment, I want you to please make 3 different comments based on the movies that my peers watched where you have to compare their movies with your.
You will be talking about the movies people watched and comparing their movies with your.
Below are my 3 peers and the movie that they chose.
PEER # 1
Name of the student: Nina
Movie title: Away From Her
Away From Her
I chose a movie “Away from her” and was not disappointed at all. The beautiful story is about a couple that was happily married for forty-five years, had great loving relationship, but the wife was struck with Alzheimer’s disease. Her husband was concerned as she increasingly was loosing her memory of events and even their marriage. When it became dangerous to keep her at home, since she could just wonder off and get lost, he made a decision to place her in leave in facility. While this step is emotionally excruciating for both, they still try to stay strong for each other. He comes to visit but she does not recognize him and on the top of that she befriends another man who she thinks is her husband. Her real husband Grant still comes every day to bring her stuff or just to watch her. One day when he comes he finds her really upset because her so called husband moved out of the facility. To make her happy Grant finds that man’s wife and befriends her so he can talk her into returning her also very ill husband back to the facility. Eventually the woman agrees and the movie ends in a very emotional seen when the real husband rolls the imaginary husband on the wheel chair to surprise his wife. Before his able to bring him into the room Fiona recognizes him and thanks him for not forsaking her. The scene ends buy him saying “Not a chance..”
This beautiful movie demonstrates loving relationship with commitment, empathy, and just simply true friendship. I would rate it 5/5 because it shows the very essence of marriage. I believe this movie depicts olds age somewhat accurately, probably a bit more glamorized, because all the characters are very good looking well-groomed and just plain all classy. I can imagine Alzheimer’s doesn’t always look so glamorous in real life. However, the relationship and the struggles that came with aging and loosing familiar functions were depicted accurately. The aging adults had to make decisions to let go and accept the new stage of their life. One of the characters mentions that in her dialogue, she says that there are two groups of elderly one that gets angry because of new changes and others make decision to accept what comes their way and be happy. The movie depicts aging in a positive but realistic way, where their struggles and deficiencies are shown, but so is their will to go on and accept and to love. The movie demonstrates the maturity of a relationship that is rarely achievable at a younger age when one is able to sacrifice their own needs to make another happy or better. The film ends on a highly emotional note that is for sure, but whether its high or low it’s really up to the viewer and how they see life. On one hand she recognizes her husband and grateful for his persistence, on the other hand it’s explained that this moment is temporary and soon she won’t know who he is. Although the film was really able to show the beauty of the moment, the moment that older people become grateful for due to decreasing number of those moments.
5 concepts and/or theories
1. According to Erikson stages of psychosocial development (Mason, 2011 pp.94), age 65+ is when individuals reach integrity vs despair and hopefully acquire virtue of wisdom. The couple and one secondary character in the film described above really demonstrated this concept. They showed ability to understand each others pain, show commitment, and ability to value the relationship for better or worst. They expressed wisdom in the way they overcame struggles, by finding humor and words of wisdom to encourage each other.
2. James Marcia inspired by Erikson, developed new theory called identity statuse(pp.94) that refers to different statuses of identity achievement. Fiona (main character) and her husband seemed to have achieved the mature status that is defined as high level of moral development, intimacy, ego development, self-esteem, personal autonomy, healthier defense mechanisms (Mason, 2011 pp95). Both of them demonstrated maturity in the way they faced this horrible disease that practically took their lives as they knew it.
3. According to Sternberg’s pattern of love relationships, it seems that Fiona and Grant developed so calledconsummate love(Mason, 2011pp.128) that is defined as the combination of all satisfying aspects of love relationship such as intimacy, passion, decision, and commitment. This shows in the way they talk about making love, and are shown after its done tenderly holding one another. Also they made a life long commitment to one another, and became best friends that are shown in the way they have fun skiing or dancing together.
4. According to Tamashiro (1978) marriage goes through 4 stages living many at stage number 2.
Magical stage
Idealized conventional stage
Individualistic stage
Affirmational stage
The last affirmational stage that is not reached by all, associates with unconditional respect and support (Mason, 2011 pp.134 ) that is clearly demonstrated in the film between Fiona and Grant.
5. In addition it seems that Grant was coping by using the SOC theory. He adjusted personal circumstances to cope the best he could with terrible illness accepting it the way it is, lowering his expectations of they way it will turn out, and focusing his attention at creating best conditions for his ill wife.
References:
Mason, M. (2011),Adulthood and Aging, Allyn & Bacon publishers
Egoyan, A.(Director) (2007)Away from herMotion Picture)Santa Monica CA :Lionsgate.
PEER # 2
Name of the student: Ellen
Movie title: on Golden Pond
On Golden Pond
The movie that I chose to watch this week was called On Golden Pond. I would rate this movie as a 4 on a scale from 1-5. In the movie, an older retired couple travels to their summer home on Golden Pond. They enter their summer home and take the dust covers off the furniture, Ethyl, the wife seems in very good spirits, and she is cheery and happy. She is the younger of the two I would say by about a decade. Her husband seems very grouchy. He is uncomfortable with the idea of getting older and he will be turning 80 soon. He is fascinated with dying and talks about it often throughout the film. His daughter who rarely comes around visits them at the summer home for her father’s birthday. You immediately see he has a difficult relationship with her, he is insulting and mean towards her. She does not call him dad, but calls him Norman. Her boyfriend and her are going on a trip to Europe and asked if he can leave his thirteen year old son with them for a month. Ethyl was very excited at the thought of having someone to look after, but her Norman was not. In the end they watched the thirteen year old boy for the month, and this changed her husband. In the beginning he yelled at the boy, but when the boy fought back he apologized. He taught the young boy how to fish, drive the boat and even to dive. While the boy started off thinking that Norman was just a grouchy old man, he really started to like spending time with him, and at the end of the month expressed to Norman that he would miss him.
I feel like the aging adults were accurately depicted in this movie. This movie showed both the positive and the negatives of aging. Ethyl was in good spirits and moving around, picking strawberries and even went skinny dipping. She seemed like she was in good health. Ethyl’s husband seems to be fascinated with death, but she does not have death anxiety. As noted in our chapter death anxiety decreases in middle age and late adulthood but is usually higher for woman. I think that Norman is obsessed with death because he feels like he is getting much older than Ethyl, not in great health and understands that he is forgetting things.
On the other hand Norman had heart problems, was miserable and as we see during the film that is attributed to his memory loss and his cardiovascular disease. He becomes disoriented in the woods and could not remember the way to the town so he ran back home to his wife, where he felt comfortable. Since hippocampal function decreased with age, he is losing his memory for something that he has done a thousand times. The movie did not state if he had the early onset of Alzheimer’s disease but he did have loss of awareness and surroundings, which according to our chapter is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. Norman is 80 years of age, and in our chapter it discusses how at 60 years of age brain weight decrease by 2-3 grams per year. By the time a person is 90 years of age their brain occupied 80% of their skull. This could lead to memory loss as one ages. Norman also displays selective attentionas he selected reading a book and ignoring his daughter’s boyfriend talk. When Norman takes young Billy out fishing you see for the first time he is less concerned with wallowing in self-pity about his age. He teaches Billy how to fish and even how to drive the boat. He reverts back to getting upset and nasty once in a while, but actually apologizes to Billy. I believe Norman felt like he was taking on the wise grandfather role by teaching Billy the ropes of fishing and cleaning out the fish after the catch. This made Norman happier than he was in the entire move and it seemed like he was becoming young again. At the end of the movie Norman reconciles with his daughter who now married Billy’s father and decides that she should visit more and have a better relationship with him.
The movie ended on a melancholy note as we see Norman’s health is depleting as he holds his heart and falls to the floor. Ethyl runs to get his medicine and call a doctor. This is the first time she states that she has been aware of their ages and death being a close possibility. In the end, Norman starts to feel better, and they say goodbye to the lake as they head back.
PEER # 3
Name of the student: Eliza
Movie Title: The Trip To Bountiful
The Trip To Bountiful
The movie I decided to watch was “The Trip To Bountiful”. It was about an old woman named Mrs. Watts who lived with her son and daughter in-law. Her wish before dying was to visit her old hometown of Bountiful. Despite her desire to revisit her friend and hometown, her son refused to take her back. He claimed he could not make any money for him and his family to survive there. His wife was not happy about the idea either and wanted no part in taking Mrs. Watts back. Mrs. Watts decided she would run away and for fill her dying wish of revisiting before she dies. She wanted to find that happy place in her life where she, for so long desired to have once again.
I found the movie very touching and heart felt. I would rate this movie a five. Sometimes movies like this give you real insight to life and I thought that this could be a movie that people could watch, not only for assignments.
I did think that the aging adult did a good job displaying accurately the process of aging. She talked about her past, physically you could tell she had problems walking and that she struggled with her health at times. Some parts I thought could have been less dramatic, like when she runs in the apartment because she wasn't fatigue or anything after that.
I think that some parts of the movie were depicted both positive and negative. In the movie Mrs. Watts was so independent despite her age. I thought that was a positive aspect of aging, not all people are affected with mobility. I thought that negatively, it showed Mrs. Watts forgetting where she placed her government check and the recipe that her daughter in-law gave her.
I think for Mrs. Watts, it ended on a high note. She was okay with returning to go live with her son after visiting Bountiful. I on the other hand, felt like I would have loved to see her son and daughter in-law transition to making a life in Bountiful for the rest of her days.
So I was surprised that in this movie Mrs. Watts was able to remember so many life stories or what her and her son had lived. While reading about the deterioration in memory, I thought that would be the case in most movies. I noticed that her working memory was up to part. I understand that not all people experience memory lose as harsh as others do. Though out the movie I found myself thinking about the last chapter we covered, about dying and death because she always talked about dying and getting to Bountiful before she died. I thought that her son was avoiding how old she was and that’s why he didn't try to get her there. I noticed that in this movie there were no children. It mostly consisted of the aging population, there were adults of all ages.
I WANT 1 PAGE OR 1 ,1/2 IN TOTALS FOR THE 3 PEERS COMMENTS. IT'S UP TO YOU HOW MUCH YOU CAN WRITE. ALSO REMEMBER THAT YOU NEED TO FIRST COMPLETE ALL THE MISSING REQUIREMENTS IN MY ASSIGNMENT, ID #TTs010415_269461_2 IN ORDER TO talk about the movies people watched and comparing their movies with your.