Nursing Movie Reviews Samples For Students

Introduction

The primary goal of any surgery is to prevent infections to the patients. It is thus important for medical personnel to ensure the operating room is sterile and clear of any micro-organisms (Couture et al., 14). This paper will briefly discuss principle of aseptic and sterile techniques. The paper relate the practices of these principle with the movie, scrubs season one.

As mentioned earlier, maintaining a sterile environment in the operating room is the main priority for surgeons. This is important because any activities relating to aseptic and aseptic techniques have a direct effect on the success of the surgical team. ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

The movie “A Beautiful Mind”, directed by Ron Howard, and released in 2001 is the true story of John Forbes Nash Jr. A leading mathematician, he is as arrogant as he is brilliant. He marries a student, Alicia, and sets himself up on the fast track in mathematics, making advancements in “game theory” which earns him accolades from his peers. Eventually, Nash is visited by CIA Agent William Parcher, who attempts to recruit him work with for code-breaking activities for the U.S. government. However, evidence begins to suggest that Nash may not perceive reality as it really is. His sanity ...

The 1970s was a decade of the public’s disappointment with the government and its policies, domestic and foreign, social and economic. It was the time of counterculture and various movements and protests that followed the example of the civil rights movement. The most important topics for the American people were the distrust for the government after the long-lasting Vietnam War that weakened not only the United States, whose economic situation was already devastating, but other countries, including Vietnam, Cambodia and their neighbors; the Watergate scandal that made Americans doubt that the county is in fact a democratic one, the state ...

The video on HIPAA Regulations discusses some general instructions on how patients’ private information should be treated. I totally agree that the duties of any health care facility worker go far beyond the time spent with the patient, and keeping their private information safe and confidential is not less important than providing medical care itself. That is why to my mind enforcing the HIPAA Rules was very reasonable and necessary move. In short, HIPAA Law protects any health information of people using medical services and allows patients themselves to access this information and use it in a way they want. ...

Fixing the Law System In the U.S. Activists can do
Fixing the Law System In the U.S. Activists can do
There are three videos concerning fixing and reforming the legal system in the United States that I want to discuss and analyze in this paper. They all depict people who care a lot about what is happening and who have a lot of ideas and proposals of solving the actual problems. These people are Philip K. Howard, Jeffrey Brenner and Marc Micozzi.
The first video is the speech of the founder of the Common Good, Philip K. Howard, ...

Social, Political and Economic Factors in the Film

The social, political and economic aspects on which the film is based paints a picture of misfortune, disadvantage and neglect of the helpless by those who are in authority. Similarly, it as well paints a picture of discrimination and inhumane treatment of the less fortunate in the society. Healthcare workers are mean to patients and unfeeling or uncaring to patients especially the unfortunate ones who had no health insurance or access to medical cover.
The film is also reminiscent of an American society that cannot be able to afford the rising cost of healthcare in the country. It also details ...

Communication is the art of sharing, receiving and passing information between two or more people. During the conversations, the medical team of Professor Vivian Bearing employ some techniques reminisce in the nursing profession. To start with, there is an elaborate use of silence as a communication technique, especially in the instances where there is interior monolog. It is demonstrated by the use of dots to connote silence. For instance, when she says, “I can’t believe that my life has become so Corny,” shows that it was silence as a technique. Reflecting is also a technique that Dr Bearing uses as a communication ...

Psychological issues in the movie

Dream House, a psychological movie, illustrates how psychological issues can affect the reasoning, imagination and well-being of an individual. Directed by Jim Sheridan, this movie has been rated a must watch by psychiatric nurses and this piece looks into some psychological issues arising from the movie. These are issues that affect one psychologically.
The first psychological issue witnessed in this movie is heart break. Boyce had been hired by Jack to kill Ann, her ex-wife in revenge. This is because he is heart broken by the move Ann took to divorce him. However, the killer gets into a wrong house thereby ...

Nursing: Parenthood TV series (2010)

Parenthood TV series (2010) captures parenthood occurring within the Braverman family expanding through three generations. Featured characters include father Zeek Braverman and mother Camille Braverman; oldest son Adam; his wife and three children; daughter Sarah and her two children; second son Crosby, Jasmine his new wife, Jabbar another son and last child daughter Julia, her husband Joel and their daughter Sydney, and adopted son, Victor. Julia Graham played Erika Christensen is the character of focus for this movie review. Importantly, she is the youngest of four Braverman siblings and an astute lawyer at a top ...

Nobody wants to die and nobody wants to die badly. No family members want their loved ones to suffer in hospitals. Some people can go to any extent to save their loved ones as they stand the courage to live and face any obstacles to get liberated from death. Emotions run high in the loved ones when they speak to a doctor about the patients health. Earlier the purpose of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) was to go with a illness and respond to the treatment and get better but now a days Americans are going to ICU to die. I think that ...

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1. Unfortunately, many individuals in our society are considered at "great risk" for psychological problems. Identify the psychosocial issues in the movie that should cause individuals to seek professional counseling help (even if some individuals could not afford to pay).
The film is a romance-comedy-drama written and directed by David O. Russell and based from the novel of the same title by Matthew Quick. It tells the story of a former History teacher, Patrizio "Pat" Solitano, Jr. (Bradley Cooper), who wants to reunite with his wife, Nikki (Brea Bee), after spending eight months of therapy for bipolar ...

1. Unfortunately many individuals in our society are considered at "great risk" for psychological problems. Identify the psychosocial issues in the movie that should cause individuals to seek professional counseling help ? (even if some individuals could not afford to pay).
The psychological problems suffered by the main protagonist of this movie “The Beautiful mind” are psychotic problems such as; stress, depression, schizophrenia, auditory hallucinations, delusions, among other mental disorders. 2. If an individual was hospitalized or attended a mental health clinic for the problems you identified in the above question, as a psychiatric nurse, what type of nursing approaches ...

The youtube video found on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS_L8efaJ-E is called “Psychoanalytic Therapy Session” and is produced by Dr. Glenn Gabbard in 1988. It purports to show a clinical vignette that portrays “Free association, transference, resistance and dream interpretation.” In it’s portrayal it is largely an accurate overview of the themes while remaining short enough to be digestible and comprehended quickly. The movie is oriented in psychodynamic theory that was originally put together by Freud.
The movie clearly showed free association with the patient laid out on the sofa and the therapist just encouraging him to relate anything, from which we ...

Introduction

Almost every year, there are thousands of individuals that decide write movie scripts actually hoping to get them produced and then also to make some serious cash flow. What people do not realize is that a lot of these scripts are never even looked at or even bought. The reason for Th is that movies are costly to make and basically only the best scripts are ever actually get produced. When they are made into movies it is important that a film analysis is done in order to see what was done correctly and what was not. Often, students that do ...

This paper intends to discus two movies, ‘Shutter Island’ and ‘Black Swan’. Both the movies are successful films and gained wide acclamations. Martin Scorsese has directed ‘Shutter Island’ while ‘Black Swan’ is a Darren Aronofsky directed movie. The paper further talks about similarities as well differences between these two movies and several related aspects of these movies.
Insanity is a common issue in both the movies and has been portrayed by the directors in their movies in different forms. Characters of both movies, Shutter Island as well as Black Swan, depicts the evolution of insanity in their behavior. The pitch ...

HealthSouth Corporation is located in Birmingham, Alabama and it is the largest operator of the inpatient hospitals. Their business model incorporates three major businesses: rehabilitation, hospitals and surgery. Lower cost and the atmosphere, which reminds a spa rather than a medical institution, made HealthSouth one of the most successful companies in Alabama already in the first few years of its existence. However, the outstanding performance of the company was not always supported by the actual success. Today Aaron Beam, co-founder and former CFO of HealthSouth, remembers the time, when he was forced to falsify accounting reports in order to meet performance ...

Part 1

Patient safety, ethical stand and patient centered care is more concerned with healthcare givers providing patients which they deem harmless and also takes into account their wellbeing both emotionally and physically. Effective communication is the key tool that can be used to address the problem of undesirable patient outcomes since it has been established that a reduction in stress and anxiety is usually brought about by patients complying with their medication and also being involved in a proactive form of effective communication. In addition to reduced stress levels, it is also crucial to note that effective communication boosts the ...

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Introduction. The traditional model of end-of-life (EOL) care is not adjusted to the needs of patients with life-limited conditions other than cancer. By presenting a case of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patient, Taylor (2011) develops representation of common patterns of dying in terminal stage lungs disease, and focuses on such patients’ needs to elaborate the optimal care model. This paper discusses the case presented in the video by Taylor & Trotman (2011) summarizing its key points and concepts.
Legal Considerations. ACP made by hospice team together with Martin, under New Zealand’s common law, should be logically followed by ...

Whose Life is it anyway?

Summary of Plot
The film, ‘whose life is it anyway’ is a clear demonstration of the types of medical dilemmas which face healthcare practitioners on a day-to-day basis. It is starred by Ken Harrison who was involved in an accident and had to be admitted to hospital. Owing to his deteriorated quadriplegic condition, he sued to be allowed to end his life. The premise for this position was the fact that he could no longer pursue his passion of creating art and he could not make love. His normal existence and style of life had been tampered with and ...

The topic regarding the destiny of a genius occupies a certain niche in cinema, simultaneously appearing neither exclusively rare nor especially popular. This topic, unfortunately, is most likely to be marked with a known moral estimation, including both the cases of positive genii, such as writers, composers, musicians, and the cases of negative genii represented by criminals. In a manner, this topic reminds other thriller movies, with the exception that in the first case the hero has the real life prototype.
David Helfgott, the piano virtuoso, is a well known musician whose popularity has spread far beyond his homeland. ...

The following analysis of Persona and Solaris reveals how movies from unlike countries and of different genres portray the development of opposite human personalities while losing or gaining humanity under the external influences and internal self-recognition. The attempts to create a fine movie about internal and external of human life do not often impress much, especially nowadays when we experience an endless flow of visual images. Probably, it inspires people to look back at the classic works that not only represent the unusual transformations in the forms of self but also produce extraordinary rhythms in the scenes (Tarkovsky 113). ...

Review

Directed by Lee Daniels, “Precious” is a story of a teenage girl suffering from the consequences of abuse. In her troublesome life full of insults from the environment, the girl’s only rescue is daydreaming: “I wish I had a light-skinned boyfriend with real nice hair. And I wanna be on the cover of a magazine” (Daniels, Magness, Siegel-Magness, 2009). Precious is looking for love throughout the movie, and though it seems impossible after everything she has been through with her parents, she finally finds it – the love for herself and her two kids.
The main character’s health ...

Mental Health Issues
Mental Health Issues
In the 1997 film As Good as It Gets, several of the characters have mental health issues that would benefit from treatment. The three main characters, Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson), Carol Connelly (Helen Hunt), and Simon Bishop (Greg Kinnear) each have different mental health issues that affect their work, well-being, and relationships with others. Melvin appears to have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and social anxiety, Carol has stress and anxiety, and Simon has depression and anxiety. All three of these characters would benefit from appropriate treatment for these mental health problems ...

Modern day science and technology has helped doctors and psychiatrists to understand the functioning of the brain. Dr. Ramachandran, who is a renowned leader in the field of brain science, explores some patients with bizarre delusional symptoms and vividly outlines how the results of their individual diagnosis have implications for the manner in which they perceive the environment or surrounding. In the documentary, Dr. Ramachandran’s work reveals significant clues of how various brain structures are responsible for the coordination and control of critical thought processes
Dr. Ramachandran in the narration of the documentary helps us to understand how ...

Mental Health

1. Unfortunately many individuals in our society are considered at "great risk" for psychological problems. Identify the psychosocial issues in the movie that should cause individuals to seek professional counseling help? (Even if some individuals could not afford to pay).
In the movie “Girl Interrupted”, there were several psychological problems depicted by the characters and the most prominent among them are the characters of Susanna, which was diagnosed of Borderline Personality Disorder and Lisa who was diagnosed of being a Sociopath. These mental disorders can be considered to pose a great risk to the society and requires professional help upon ...

Social Justice issues:

The Verdict captures the growth of Frank Galvin, a character who goes from being a keen law graduate to a chronic alcoholic after being framed by his firm’s senior partner for jury trampling, when Frank tried to expose the corrupt practices his firm employed. Post this incident, Frank loses interest in his career. He defines a person who has given up on his life. The defining moment in Frank’s life occurs when he takes up a case of medical negligence in which, a woman developed complications during child-birth and was rendered permanently vegetative due to lack of ...

Introduction

The understanding of mental health issues is impacted significantly by the images portrayed in various sources such as printed media, news media, film and drama as well as real-life experiences. The movie “Snake Pit” by Anatole Litvak brings about images of poor psychiatric care in a State Mental Institution. The movie is based in the 1940s and provides a closer view of the dire state of mental treatment at state facilities. The story is told from the perspective of de Havilland, a young writer who is taken to Juniper Hill State mental facility by her husband (The snake pit, 1948). One of ...

In 1964, a film about mental illness patients who live in a mental ward was produced. The movie named Lilith was about a woman who was a patient in the asylum. Her name was Lilith and had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. A man named Vincent had returned from war and wanted to have a position that was important in his hometown. He interviewed and got hired for an occupational position at the mental institution where Lilith was staying.
Lilith has a belief that she is to use her body for sexual favors. She is happy, though and interacts with ...

Reader Response Based on Film and Readings- Pioneer Women in Medical Front

The book A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard based on her diary, 1785-1812, was written by the historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in reference to the diary of an 18th century American midwife and healer, Martha Moore Ballard (1735-1812). The documentary film, The American Experience, was based on the Ulrich’s book. During the period of 3 decades (from 1785-1812), Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her life as a midwife and healer and housewife with children. Her records illustrate struggles and tragedies that she faced within her family and the society as a whole during ...

Introduction

The film, The Hunger Games is a trilogy that tells a story of unending oppression, exploitation and injustice in the society. In the plot, there are twelve districts that are ruled by the capitol, and they are destitute, most of the inhabitants die as a result of starvation. The trilogy Hunger Games is set at some time in the future, and this story takes place in Panem. The setting consists of a capitol and twelve other districts though they were initially thirteen which were and ruled by the capitol.The Social Justice Issues
Social injustice manifestation occurs in relation to poverty. Evidently, there ...

This is a 2003 South Korean film in form of a psychological horror. It was written and directed by Kim Ji-woon. This movie was as a result of a folktale entitled ‘Janghwa Hongryeon’ which was done by Joseon Dynasty. This folktale by Joseon has been adapted to several films, including that of ‘a tale of two sisters’. It is basically on two sisters who faced a lot of problems and challenges. This is because after returning from the hospital, they experience several disturbing events which involve them and their step mother. The superb acting of this movie has seen it win a price of the best ...

Human psychology deals with the nature and behavior of human beings. There are many disorders that human beings face and affect even their mental nature. One of the most common psychological disorders is the bipolar disorder; it is mostly experienced in the teenage years which were the case with Pollock. Most of the cases of this disorder begins before the age of 25 but might start and a young age or later in life. When one suffers from bipolar disorder, he/she experiences a shift in mood. The behavior is also influenced, and the mood shifts from low to high and even ...

English 225 Introduction To Film

The film “The Elephant Man” is an iconic and powerful humanistic filmmaking endeavor. Released in 1980, the film relates the story of Joseph Carey Merrick, the real-life figure who was born with a horrible deformity and had to deal with issues of humanity and discrimination in 19th century London. Through the use of compelling performances, assured and minimalistic direction, and a stark, Victorian Gothic aesthetic, director David Lynch forces the horrors and sadness of deformity onto the audience in a way that leaves the viewer tear choked with sadness and sympathy. Most people who watch the film are touched in a way that ...

Introduction

In his seminal work, A History of the Nine Principles of Policing, Robert Peel of the London Metropolitan Police (LMP) mentioned two important principles of policing. First, “no quality is more indispensable to a policeman than a perfect command of temper; a quiet, determined manner has more effect than violent action.” Second, “The securing and training of proper persons is at the root of efficiency.” This review will apply these principles in the context of law enforcer management and training.

The importance of temper control

When the term ‘temper’ is mentioned, it always refers to ‘bad temper’ because there is virtually no such thing ...

The film has left an imperishable impression on me and I am not sure that I will be able to forget it soon. I cannot name the ending either happy or sad; it is rather life-like: in life we cannot treat all moments as purely happy or grievous, they are as it is with the grain of salt and sugar at the same time. Nevertheless, the whole film creates a rather uncheerful atmosphere, and the ending doesn’t change this impression much.
As we see, most of the family members aren’t eager to stay at the nursing home ...

The hero, Claireece Precious Jones is 16, beefy beyond belief, and ignorant. Her inactive mother, Mary (Mo'Nique), treats her like a slave, beating and manhandling her relentlessly. Her dad, on the uncommon events when he shows up, grabs the chance to assault her. These fierce considerations brought about her bearing him a kid when she was twelve; as the film starts, she is pregnant with another. The principal infant has Down disorder and is named "Mongo" ("short for 'mongoloid,'"); to her favorable luck, the young lady lives with Precious' grandma, aside from when Mary quickly imports her to ...

This essay deals with the notion of death and dying in the movie, where protagonists prove to be more than ordinary people who would probably succumb to the pressure of knowing that their last days are numbered. Instead, they face death head on and follow their bucket list, with items that need to be done in order for them to believe that they have led truly fulfilled lives. In the end, however, they figure out that for this, they did not need fancy dinners and exotic trips, rather what they needed was beside them all along: family and friends; ...

The movie Shine, tells a story of an Australian child David Helfgott, the main character, who is a talented pianist. David had a traumatic childhood life and narrates this life in his flashback. The movie shows how his father abused him together with his sibling. He also losses his family due to poor conditions that were present in the camps they called home. David gets a scholarship in his teenage age. Though his father denies, Katharine, a co-founder of party encourages David’s father, Peter to allow him to go (Sardi & Scott 56).
David therefore leaves and enters to the competition in London. ...

YouTube video: “What It’s Like to Lose Someone to Suicide”

People are sad, miserable, with tears in their eyes. It is difficult for them to talk about what happened.
They could not believe it was true, hoped it was a mistake. They very shocked, wanted to double-check everything.
People felt like a part of their life was taken away. Memories of the holidays and fun times they had with their loved ones continue to come up unexpectedly. It made people very sad and cry.

They think that the lack of communication, sharing on the emotional level were the reasons of suicides.

The best way to prevent suicide is a dialog between people, conversations, listening to each other’s problems. There is nothing wrong with having a ...

A film that is consistent with information in the reading materials regarding the history of a period is beneficial, and the reason is that it increases correct recollection by fifty percent. When students watch such a film, they are able to identify with the past. At the same time, they are able to approach the film history uncritically. A film’s visual imagery and powerful audio can engage the student in ways that textbooks and other readings cannot. Films are able to engage an individual by their application of cutting edge techniques. They also involve their contemporary point of ...

W. Edwards Deming was one among the various management consultants sent by the Unites States government to ameliorate the production quality standards in the war torn Japanese economy. The Japanese yearned for getting out of their lagged image in the international market where they regretted upon the bad quality front and the obvious cheap prices of their products. Deming applied his statistical approach and assured them to implement the changes recommended so that they could totally turn around their earlier issues within next five years (Deming Institute 1). Adhering to his simple notions and unconventional approach, the Japanese came ...

Life is one journey that causes the people living it to feel entrapped in different situations. It is then left upon the individuals to figure out ways out of this entrapment. To start with, the main actor is trapped. A famous photographer called Jeff is the main hero of the movie. He is trapped physically to a wheel chair. The cause of this is a broken leg that is accompanied by a heavy cast. The cast covers his body to the hip restricting his movements. Jeff cannot leave his apartment no matter how much he would like to. There ...

It seems that almost each horror or science fiction film is being interpreted as an allegory of some particular realities; in addition, the supernatural characteristics described in such films are sometimes seen and described as symptoms of political and/or social diseases. For example, “zombie” horror movies tend to describe how paranoia and panic even among the beloved ones take over the common sense and traditional social norms. Current example of such movie is “28 Days Later” by Danny Boyle, in which he depicted post-apocalyptic world abandoned and destroyed by an epidemic that transforms ...

Movie director Oliver Stone’s 1989 film “Born on the Fourth of July” is a vivid screen adaptation of antiwar activist Ron Kovic’s autobiographical account of his idealistic dreams of war to becoming the damaged bitter war veteran. This film review follows Stone’s story line of portraying the evolution of Kovic from a young boy playing war with his friends in 1950s Massapequa, Long Island, to his eventual recognition and acceptance as an articulate and respected antiwar activist. For many of the people today, references to the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s are little-known history because this generation wasn’ ...

Hard Decisions in the Movie Crash

Introduction
Crash is a crime drama film that was produced in 2004. It is directed by Paul Haggis who is also the producer and its co-writer. Paul Haggis was inspired by a real life carjacking incident that took place in Wilshire Boulevard outside a video store in 1991. It focuses on racism and as well as social tension present in California. Starring is Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Episto, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard, Chris Bridges, Thandie Newton, Ryan Phillipe and Larenz Tate .

Dilemmas Facing the Characters

The aspect of racism present in Los Angeles as portrayed in the movie is obvious. ...

Chinese cinema has always been at the forefront of international cinema. Despite it being only the 4th largest industry in the world, it has still managed to create an impact on American and European audiences. The story coupled with martial arts and action created crossover appeal with American audiences as early as the 1960s. Characteristics of Hong Kong cinema gave rise to anti-heroes whom went against type but were heroes at the end of the day. Drunken Master (1978), Hard Boiled (1992) and Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) are 3 films which speak to the evolution of Chinese cinema in ...

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN 50 FIRST DATES

Interpersonal Relationships in 50 First Dates
Interpersonal relationships basically refer to the connection and/or linkage between two or more people who interact in a given context (Dwyer, 2009). This may be the workplace, the school, the church, at home, etc. Sometimes these relationships exist between individuals that some people encounter in their daily lives either often or rarely. Notably, for a relationship to exist and hold, always, there must be effective communication taking place or going on between the parties. Communication is a tool that can be used to either built or destroy interpersonal relationships (Cushman, 2011). This brings in the ...

ABSTRACT

During the last decade, Asian horror cinema has seen a surge in popularity throughout the world, especially in western countries. Traditionally, Japan has dominated the Asian horror cinema, but recently Hong Kong and South Korea have emerged as major powerhouses in the genre. Majority of these movies have enjoyed international success. Moreover, many of these movies have been adapted and remade by Hollywood. As the genre continues to grow, there is a need to understand the social conditions, cultural values, and cinematic traditions which influence the horror movies from Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, and Singapore. In particular, ...

The way one’s mind interprets sensation is the referred to as perception of the world around them. With advanced technology as well as improved study of the human anatomy, doctors can now restore the sight of blind person. However, there is a major problem that is more likely to be experienced. Upon restoration of the eye sight, the person who was initially blind now interprets the world around them in a way that is different from the way they interpreted the world before losing the sight.
Sensation refers to the process through which sensory receptor’s stimulation produces neural ...

The movie “The Notebook” presents Noah and Allie as an old couple, experiencing passionate moments of love throughout their life and reaching the latest phase of their life, which finds Allie in an elder institute, being treated of dementia, and Noah her shadow-friend, telling her a beautiful love story over and over again, until she remembers that it is in fact their own story that the man is telling, recognizing him for a moment and then going back into the state of obliteration (Cassavetes, “The Notebook”). In this movie there are exposed two different characters and two approaches to reaching old ...

Introduction

The movie is about the murders committed by Mrs. Bates because her jealousy of seeing Norman with a beautiful woman. Marion made a mistake of running with her employee client’s money and become the first victim. On her way to her lover's place she decides to spend a night in the Bate Motel where she was stub to death by an old jealous woman (Norman’s mother) after being seen with Norman. Marion disappearance also leads to the death of a detective who was also stub while trying to investigate the where about of Marion.
The shareholder of the movie includes ...

Question 1

In the movie ‘Whose life Is It Anyway’, numerous psychological issues are brought to light regarding disabled individuals and their ability to cope with disability. In the movie, the main character who is a sculptor is bed ridden, paralyzed from the waist down. He cannot cope with the pressures of disability and adjustment to the complications of the life of a disabled person. He decides to go to court to file a case to grant him the right to extinguish his own life (mercy killing). The psychological trauma associated with disability is often ignored. In the movie, the author brings out the ...

The youtube video found on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzY-njtfX-U is called “The Legacy of Unresolved Loss: A Family Systems approach” and is features Dr. Monica McGoldrick. Over a series of excerpts from four sessions, the video shows the progress a family makes in a family therapy session. It is an accurate and precise summary of the general routine and course a family systems therapy session take. It is short enough to be digestible and comprehended quickly. The movie is oriented in family therapy that combines multiple techniques and therapeutic strategies.
The movie featured a family with a 15-year-old daughter, Cathleen, and a father who had suffered various losses ...

PROJECT TITLE: Rear Window (1954)

GENRE: Thriller/Suspense

1. Opening Image (1): The movie opens with the view from inside the house of a window of an apartment complex. As the name of the movie says rear window, the audience can infer that it the view from this apartment of the society that forms the premises of the story. One can guess that is from this window that the protagonist might see something that builds into the story of the movie.

2. Theme Stated (5): Roughly five minutes into the movie, Jeffers (James Stewart) says on phone to his editor “Six weeks sitting in a ...

Communication in Film

Good Will Hunting

Understanding communication strategies between people can be learned by carefully observing feature films. Dramas are the best because the characters are involved in different types of relationships. Good Will Hunting directed by Gus Van Sant is a movie centered on a young man named Will Hunting who lives in South Boston. Will does not really ‘communicate’ per se with anyone even though he hangs out with a group of friends who are his surrogate brothers. Will is an orphan and has had a difficult life. Because he has had a difficult past he built a lot of defensive walls. He must learn ...