...Sigmund Freud, a universally recognized psychologist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, introduces the rather odd, yet intriguing concept that each person withholds an Id, Ego, and Superego; the primal desires, rational thinking, and morals that make each mind unique. In the movie Regarding Henry, the cutthroat lawyer Henry Turner is unfortunately shot and supposedly wiped clean of memory, exposing Freud’s concept in his actions both before and after the incident. Based upon the numerous occasions that Henry chooses to do what is right rather than to do what he wants suggests that his natural state is that of his Superego rather than his Id. Turner’s Id can be identified in his basic needs and desires, such as hunger and sexual desires. All humans to some degree show signs of their Ids in daily life, such as Bradley, the physical therapist that helped return Henry’s physical condition back to normal. He says time after time in reference to his young female co workers, “I’ve gotta get me some of that”, simply exposing his Ids sexual desires. Henry displays his Id in a more child-like way as a symptom of his brain injuries, continuing to flick crumpled pieces of paper at his daughter while she was trying to read. Her attempts to control him by saying, “Dad, stop”, over and over again was to no avail....
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...The movie Regarding Henry, Henry Turner is a successful lawyer that ends up getting shot in an accident of the way to a convenience store. He has to relearn how to walk and talk and be a part of society again. He is mainly in his superego in the beginning of the film, sometimes being fairly critical and morality. By the end of the movie Henry is so different that his natural state completely changes from his Superego to his Id, and then back to his Superego. There was one scene right before he gets shot, when he wanted to go out and buy cigarettes. He walks into a convenience store and asks the store clerk for a pack of cigarettes, when another man pulls out a gun and he realizes that he has interrupted a robbery. The man asks him for his wallet and he says no twice, and gets shot twice. Most people would have just given up the wallet for a chance of safety, but he refuses. After the accident there are many times when Henry is in the state of the id. One scene was when his family came to get him at the hospital and he just decided that he did not want to go. He had his mind made up and that’s what he wanted to do. Then he remembers grey carpet and wants to go home. It’s just this impulsive, immediate state of mind....
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...Movie Review November 1, 2012 The Good Son After watching The Good Son, it seems that Henry has symptoms similar to the DSM-IV-TR standards for conduct disorder (American Psychiatric Association., 2000, p. 68-69). We see that Henry bullies and threatens his cousin, Mark. He also provokes a physical fight with Mark (Page & Ruben 1993). He uses dangerous weapons and uses them to inflict physical cruelty to animals (American Psychiatric Association., 2000, p. 68-69). We see this as Henry comes out with his “new invention.” It is similar to a crossbow. He uses his “invention” to kill a dog (Page & Ruben, 1993). He deliberately destroys others’ property as seen in the scene where both Henry and Mark are throwing rocks at the windows in the empty warehouse (Page & Ruben, 1993). He frequently manipulates others. He also steals items of nontrivial value without confronting a victim as shown when the mother finds the rubber ducky in the shed (Page & Ruben, 1993). Our first impression of Henry comes when Mark first arrives at his aunt and uncle’s house. Henry is still upstairs and we hear a scream. Not a scream of terror or fright, but more of a playful scream in attempts to startle others. The camera shifts to Henry who is hanging upside down with a white, handmade mask on. After his father tells him to come down, we see Henry still in his mask, with a plaid shirt tucked into his pants with a belt running down the stairs. When he gets to the bottom, he lifts his...
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...Regarding Henry Regarding Henry is a very great movie with many scenes including both the ID and superego. Although Henry had the life everyone thinks they want, He realized he had nothing everyone else had after he got shot. He began to understand that Love and affection is so much greater than fame, success and money. After figuring his life out again, he was able to handle things with a more level head. He realized what a selfish person he was and began to react differently to things. If every person was given the chance to look at their life from a different perspective, would everyone be able to see their faults like Henry was able to? The ID is very relevant in the beginning of the movie. Henry was beyond selfish. He always wanted the best thing for himself and was never affected by the sorrow of others or if he brought pain to another person. Because he was a lawyer, he learned to be very good at twisting the truth or just not saying the entire story. He was able to get a hospital out of a lawsuit for being able to confidently twist the truth. Everyone believed him because of his ability to not care about the opposing side and his confidence in his lies. Everything happened really fast after Henry left the house to get a cigarette....
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...The superego, or the moral compass of our minds, takes the aspects and values of society into consideration before acting upon any impulse. Once Henry leaves the rehabilitation facility, he must try to discover the man he was before. As he slowly starts to learn about his past life, he finds himself discovering a new way of life. Before Henry’s accident, he did not associate morals with his field of work. When he starts back to work, he begins reading old case files, including Mr. Matthews’s case, the one that he withheld information found from the court, and slowly starts to remorse in his previous decisions regarding the case, henceforth, changing his future actions in his work. After reading and reading and reading, Henry acts on his superego, and takes the evidence to the Matthews family in hopes of them being able to gain back some of what they lose in the case. Henry knows that presenting this folder of testimonies would eventually be taken back to court leading his previous employer into a battle in the courts that will present no positive outcomes fir their firm or the party they are defending. He acted on his superego. He knew that what he had done, regarding the case, in the past was not morally correct, so he acted on his superego to improve the situation caused by his Id impulses. Notwithstanding his past, henry changes his is...
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...In the film “Regarding Henry”, Henry Turner is a prosperous lawyer who is well known for achieving his success at the expense of others. There is not much information given on what shapes his personality, but it is clear that the id is generally in control. All of this changes when Henry has a chance encounter with a criminal who shoots him once in the chest and once in the head. This unfortunate happenstance would lead to long term brain damage that Henry would have to learn to overcome. Now, without his former memories mostly gone, Henry is forced to discover what his true nature is. After he refers to this blank slate, he tends toward morals which makes it clear that the super ego is actually his natural state. The id is well represented throughout the film, both before and...
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...Critique: Stealth Stealth was made in 2005 and is presented by Columbia Pictures, directed by Rob Cohen, Produced by Mike Medavoy. The Executive Producer was Arnold Messer. The movie starts out with wording and music, similar to Star Wars, giving the prologue of the movie. I feel that the Director’s vision is that he is trying to warn us about what the future is capable of happening, if we put “brains” in computers. In this thesis I will be telling you about the movie so you will be able to understand what is happening. I will also be telling you who is in the movie and what their roles are, the style and directing of the movie. I will also Critique the film regarding the flaws that was done, the editing to the style and the acting. The Original music was done by BT. Music plays throughout the movie; the colors are neutral at the beginning of the movie with certain key items showing full color, in one scene a United States flag is flying on a building. Dean Semler does the Cinematography’s work. His work includes Secretariat (2010) and Mad Max: Fury Road (pre-production) (2012). Stephen Rivhin did the film editing. His most recent work was Avatar (2009), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006). Making a movie is a genuinely collaborative effort. Large films employ literally hundreds of people who work together to create the finished product. Yet as with any endeavor that enlists the labor...
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...Session T4B Special Session - Henry’s Daughters: A New Engineering Ethics Movie Michael C. Loui (Facilitator), Jimmy H. Smith, Joseph R. Herkert, and Steven P. Nichols loui@illinois.edu, jimmy.smith@ttu.edu, joseph.herkert@asu.edu, s.nichols@mail.utexas.edu Abstract – The National Institute for Engineering Ethics has produced a new movie, Henry’s Daughters, to aid in teaching professional ethics in engineering. The movie highlights ethical issues at both individual and societal levels. In this special session, participants will learn how to use two cooperative learning strategies together with the new movie. Participants will also learn a classroom assessment technique. Index Terms - engineering ethics, emerging technologies, cooperative learning, classroom assessment INTRODUCTION To advance instruction in professional ethics for engineering students, the National Institute for Engineering Ethics (NIEE) collaborated with Great Projects Film Company of New York City to produce a new educational movie, Henry’s Daughters (2010). This 32-minute movie dramatizes a fictional but realistic story that highlights engineering responsibility regarding both micro-ethical issues of individual conduct and macro-ethical issues of public policy [1] in the development of an intelligent transportation system. In addition to raising standard issues of professional ethics such as conflicts of interest and the confidentiality of proprietary information, Henry’s Daughters includes ethical implications...
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...Salinas Valley. Henry (Elisa’s husband) asks Elisa if she would like to go out a restaurant and a picture movie to celebrate his sale. Henry leaves, and Elisa continue to garden, but while she is gardening a man drives up in a wagon. The man asks to do any job like sharpening scissors and fixing pots and pans. Elisa tries to send him away, but the man asks about the chrysanthemums, so Elisa gives him a couple of pots to fix and some money for fixing them and a chrysanthemum to give to the lady he had mentioned. When Henry drives Elisa to dinner, Elisa sees that the man had thrown the plant on the road and she began to cry. Significance of Point of View The story Chrysanthemums is told from a third-person point of view. In the story, the narrator refers to the characters as “he” or “she” rather than “I” and “you”. As well, the story is third-person because we read what the characters think and feel, like a camera recording. For example, this sentence from the story Chrysanthemums, “she heard her husband calling Scotty down by the barn. And a little later she saw the two men ride up the pale yellow hillside in search of the steers.” this sentence is referring to the characters and “she” and “her husband”. When reading the story, you see it through Elisa’s eyes. The affects how she really feels and what she desires. You begin to see that she doesn’t have what she wants. When I look at the world through the eyes of the writer, I see the feelings of Elisa and Henry. As well, when...
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...Nick met again. They were also helping the people her due to poverty. And in Chechnya, it is winter time here, Sarah found Nick here. The themes of this story are war, drama, romance and adventure. II. Character Analysis Characters | Type of Character | Description | Background of the Character | Sarah Jordan | Protagonist/Dynamic | -a busy American socialite-married to an English man-had fell in love with Nick Callahan | -She helped the Ethiopian child and the wounded mother of this child-She had torrid divorce with her husband(Henry) | Nick Callahan | Protagonist/Static | -a ruge doctor who are doing missionaries in different places like Ethiopia. | -He is mad with the government leaders who do not managing well the country. | Charlotte Jordan | Minor/Supporting character/Static | -sister of Sarah Jordan | -She is always there to help her sister in everything she wants. | Henry Bauford | Minor/Static | -an English man-Son of a wealthy man-husband of Sarah Jordan | -He is so playful. He has no time for his family because he is making hang-outs with the other girls. | Steiger | Antagonist/Static | -the one who helped Sarah to find Nick and lead the way to Chechnya.-he is a greedy man. | He...
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...“Inside Job” Movie review -Deepshikha Dubey SYBCOM (Hons) Roll number-1071 ‘I nside job’ true to its title, is an exasperating documentary about the actual causes and consequences of the financial crisis of 2008. Directed by Charles Ferguson and narrated by Matt Damon, the movie is not a piece of muckraking or breathless support. It rests its infuriation on proper reason, research, figures and careful argument. Several interviews of eminent personalities from political, financial and academic backgrounds, along with news clips and aerial shots of New York, Iceland, London and other disaster areas — are all in there! Though dealing with a very complex issue, the movie has beautifully dealt with the topic and made it much easier for common man to understand the reason behind the nerve wrecking recent financial crisis that hit USA and then the world’s economy. The film is divided into five main parts, covering a wide scope- Who, what, when, why, how… it is all answered! Unlike most other documentaries that have been released over the past several years, ‘inside job’ bases its arguments on numbers and facts and doesn't just emotions. The first part of the movie- “How we got here?” Takes the viewers back to history in the 1930s when US had a strong financial system. The regular banks were local businesses and were not allowed to mess around with the depositor’s money. The investment banks were private partnerships and thus did not make risky investments...
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...The mind is a very complex thing to try and comprehend; you also never really know what it is capable of either. Many people usually act one certain way with their id controlling them for the most part, or the superego. In Regarding Henry, Henry Turner was a well-known lawyer in New York City that has a reputation for always winning his cases no matter the people who got hurt in the process. Turner, for the majority of his life, the id controlled his life, until a very unfortunate event occurred where he lost his memory. People can argue either way in which what his natural state was, but I believe that he defiantly is a mixture of both. The id of the brain is a more impulsive, pleasurable side of the personality. Many say that it...
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...My fair lady (1964) is a classic movie about a Cockney flower girl, Eliza, who takes lessons from professor Higgins, a phonetician, to pass as a lady. After watching, I find connection between the movies and myself in terms of language learning experience. This writing will reflect on two chief issues that are methods of phonetic and phonological training and the relationship between phonetic teacher and learners. Regarding to methods involving phonetic and phonological training, there are many methods applied during learning process, I am going to focus on two teaching methods used are drilling, and putting marbles in mouth. For the first method, Eliza is forced to stay lonely in a room and enunciate vowels unremittingly. “You simply cannot go on working the girl this way. Making her say her alphabet over and over ... from sunup to sundown, even during meals.”, Mrs. Pearce (the housekeeper) says. It is worth noting that Higgins does not guide Eliza the way how to enunciate vowels but wholly neglects her untill her correct pronunciation. The housekeeper: “…When will it stop?” Henry Higgins: “When she does it properly, of course. Is that all, Mrs. Pearce?” The result is that Eliza is frastrated. She can not produce the sound in the right way. Turning to the second method, Higgins puts six marbles in Eliza’s mouth to make her say the sentence “With blackest moss, the flower pots were thickly crusted, one and all.” clearly “as a bell”. Because he supposes that Demosthenes...
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...horror film relies on the technology used in filmmaking, with the quality of the sound effects being the aspect that matters the most. Furthermore, advancement in technology will sometimes guarantee an improvement on both the sound and visual effects and the overall quality of a horror film as well. I. Technology and horror film’s history A. Brief background about horror films 1. First years of horror 2. Horror’s increasing popularity B. Introduction to the technologies used in making a film in general 1. Differences between CGI and practical effects & the use of 3D 2. Sound effects as a plot device 3. Introduction to study II. Students’ opinions regarding the technological aspects of a horror film. A. Opinions of students to the visual effects present in a horror film 1 How visuals improved the “horror factor” of a horror film according to the students 2. Comparison between male and female student’s responses 3. Researcher’s analysis and interpretation B. Opinions of students to the sound effects utilized in horror film 1. How sounds improved the “horror factor” of a horror film according to the students 2. Comparison between male and female student’s responses 3. Researcher’s analysis and interpretation C. Comparison between the visuals and the sound effects & the relation of advancement of technology to quality filmmaking 1. Quality...
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...12 Angry Men PROC 5840, Negotiations, Midterm Case Analysis Table of Contents Table of Contents……………………………………………………….……………………………….…2 Character Listing…………………………………………………………………………………………...3 Major Case Issues…………………………………………………………………………………………..5 Analysis of Juror Number Eight……………………………………………………………………………7 Analysis of Juror Number Four…………………………………………………………………………...13 Analysis of Juror Number Nine…………………………………………………………………………...17 Bibliography……………………………………………………………………………………………….19 12 Angry Men Character Listing Juror Number One (Martin Balsam): The jury foreman, he got off to a shaky start. However, he took his role seriously and facilitates voting. He was generally passive. Outside of the jury room he was an assistant high school football coach. Juror Number Two (John Fielder): This shy bank clerk was initially reluctant to participate and seemed intimidated by other jurors. Although he exhibited a tendency toward avoidance, eventually he contributed to the discussion. His opinion was easily swayed and he appeared to parrot other jurors. Juror Number Three (Lee J. Cobb): This small business owner shared the story of his turbulent relationship with his own son. He was aggressive and confrontational, using hard bargaining tactics such as intimidation, threats, and insults to influence others. He was the last juror to change his mind. Juror Number Four (E.G. Marshall): A calm, rational, and self-assured stockbroker, he concentrated...
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