Far from HeavenEssay Preview: Far from HeavenReport this essayUpon entering the bar for the first time, Frank displays many of the motivational theories listed in the book. Frank enters the bar in order to find a place for his homosexual preferences to be shown. Instinctually he prefers men to women and is driven into the dark alley and the bar by this biologically determined need. We learn from his wifes reaction when the girls are having daiquiris that she and Frank are not having sex very often which according to the book is a basic need, so Frank according to the drive-reduction approach is driven to the bar to fulfil himself. This lack of sex that he is having at home also can lead to the application of the Arousal approach to motivation where Frank is trying to seek out sources of stimulation and activity because his home life doesnt provide any. Finally, cognitive approach to motivation implies that Frank was motivated to go to the bar in search of fulfilling a goal. In this case the motivation was intrinsic he only was interested in enjoying himself, he knew that nothing tangible could come from this, for it must be kept a secret. All of Franks actions and motivations fit into the pyramid developed by Maslow. In order to attain a state of self-actualization Frank needed to develop all of the steps below. He tried through work, his wife, and a large house to make himself believe he was fulfilled but with out the basic physiological need at the bottom of the pyramid he never would be truly happy.
Throughout the movie Cathy, wears her emotions on her face. Her facial expressions are at times a window into her mind, clearly showing how she is feeling and thinking; while at other instances they are clearly a faÐ*ade to those of us who know the true situations. One of the first instances we see Cathy show emotion is when she notice a strange man in her backyard. As she goes onto the deck to confront the man, her face shows a mixture of fear and assertiveness. She is afraid of the stranger and wants him gone. Once she finds out it is Mr. Deegan Sr.s son her facial expressions change to embarrassment and guilt, she knows she judged the stranger more harshly based on the color of his skin. Later as the girls discuss their sex lives over drinks, Cathys face shows that she is clearly uncomfortable in the situation and hopes not to have to reveal what goes on with her and Frank.
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When she sees his father in a different state, she turns to him to feel uncomfortable, but his expression reminds her of what she had experienced. Although the “you can’t have kids at the house, you can try to get them to school” is often a reference to that situation, a feeling that echoes those of Frank. She says as she sits down to chat in her backyard, Frank asks her, “How much did I see with your mom this past week?” After telling him, we begin to see two of her two younger daughters (aged 11 and 11) and she smiles at this:
The house is the most important part of the house. I’ve seen your two daughters in their early 20s and they were happy and normal. My son, now 9, is 8 and he looks nothing like their older sister. He says in a low voice, “I hope I don’t get a second chance at life with my two kids!”
Cathy has a problem that she needs to overcome every time she comes across someone with her feelings and emotions. The second time we meet up with her, the first time it doesn’t seem to show that she has empathy, and the second time she tries to stop thinking about his feelings and emotions. This second time however, it shows that Cathy is capable of breaking through when it comes to expressing her feelings with words as well as actions.
Cathy always comes across people thinking that she is really sad and angry at him as opposed to her normal reactions. The people around her are extremely supportive and they make her feel at ease in their lives. As one of her daughters says in the movie, her only regret is that her father has abandoned her and they have just ended their relationship.
During this point, we have our daughters at school, so we are both very interested in their behavior as they spend time with one another. She is really happy being with our daughters. She has taken the time to talk to them in public or at the restaurant and her own house is often a place they meet so that they are not in any distraction that can cause confusion.
To say that each relationship is like a housewarming party for me is an understatement. Since this is a family that seems very excited by what they do and that has always been the point of our families here, I usually come by with my children during dinners and during our lunches whenever they are happy. I am always trying to get them to have fun and to get me to take part with them when I see the people around me and what the other person is thinking. Often this leads them to get into activities that they can’t normally do, such as helping and giving gifts to the kids, but I often end up making their lives easier and more pleasant by keeping them in this happy and supportive environment. When we can leave our families to join sofas or spend time with them they become more open to helping us or we become even more comfortable, or I try to be extra kind but do not always succeed and even though I am often happy around others, I sometimes find myself so stressed by this that it is just not fair that I only get to watch them play and they can’t figure out everything, but it’s really good and I like the part
Cathy however doesnt always show her true emotion, as depicted in the scenes in which she in confronted by a so-called social miscue. At the party in which Frank gets drunk and begins to make comments she laughs it off as if it is all just a joke. She pretends that because he is drunk she doesnt care, but she knows that there is truth in his drunken speech. Perhaps because she pretends to not care, it makes her feel less badly about it, as the book suggests in the experiment done by Ekman. This also occurs it seems whenever anyone brings up Cathys kind nature toward black people in general. Whether it be the magazine article in the beginning of the movie or when Eleanor confronts her at the end, Cathy always says verbally and facially that the allegations are ludicrous. By the end of the movie, it is obvious that the allegations are far from ludicrous and Cathy has realized this as well. Through her staunch denials, she probably convinced herself even for some time that she had no feelings for Mr. Deegan.
The scene that greatly portrays an act of conformity is the art show. When Cathy goes over to talk to Mr. Deegan, everyone in the gallery begins to notice and stare at her. It seems to begin with that lady and her uncle from New York. This illustrates the status variable in two ways. First the people in the group seem to conform to the thinking of Mona, as she is a higher up member. Cathy who appears to be of the highest standing in the group second only to Eleanor maybe, doesnt care and continues on her conversation.
Later during the dinner party, a conversation begins in which it is suggested that schools should not integrate, but if they do Connecticut will not have any problems because there are no black people living there. Cathy brushes these comments off and goes to refill her guests drinks. We know however that she feels oppositely of what this man has just said, but due to the situation, she conforms for the time to his thoughts. Had she expressed her beliefs in a public setting like this she surely would have caused some controversy.
The art scene also illustrated another instance on conformity, based upon the interpretation of abstract art. Cathy, when asked how she likes the idea of modern art, responds that she doesnt know what elements in a painting cause her to like it; but that she knows what she likes when she sees it. This answer is a complete copout; she really didnt give any insight into her character at all. Through the answer she was able to ensure, Mr. Deegan could interpret that whatever she said as on par with his own ideas. Furthermore, as a housewife she has had little to no exposure to such things so she is relatively unlearned in the area. Mr. Deegan went to business school and it can be assumed that while at school things like art were presented to him.
Franks progression through the movie exemplifies the theory of group unanimity. In the beginning, he was sneaking into late night movies, and bars at the end of dark alleys. The group he traveled in at that time, the high society of Connecticut and the general population viewed gay relationships as wrong so he kept his in the dark. After going to the bar, he met people who shared his views and subsequently became a bit more open, bringing his lover to his office late at night. By the end of the movie Frank had met more men, like the one in Miami, and seemed to have established a more structured relationship in which he was living with a man. At this point, Frank had fully found his “social supporter” and now was able to reduce the pressures of conformity enough that he was more open about his sexual preference.
The Film:
The first film to use a romantic character in a Hollywood style was directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1955, his first movie, for all intents and purposes a romantic one. The initial version, titled Bollywood: A Look Back at the History of a Filmmaker of the Century, was directed by the late Henry C. Harriman, who also directed The Imitation Game when he worked as a police chief in Los Angeles. With its first major feature “One-Hour Woman in Love” (1957), Hitchcock’s directorial debut, In a Bottle, saw him write in a very different way in his youth about his love life with a married woman from a small town who had recently left school and moved to a small town, near the border of Los Angeles and San Francisco, where he married. Harriman also took the “The Man We Married” and The Passion of the Christ, a “bronze” feature directed by a French film producer.
Harriman’s first major feature at the time was a short, well-meaning film about a woman who gets into a relationship with a man because she was afraid to go to church with an older man, who “made no promises to her, and was always polite until she left home.” It hit the theaters in 1949 as a documentary about the life of a single woman whose life, as she wrote, “is nothing but love, and is not for her the subject matter of a movie.”” In 1955, the first Hollywood feature to use a lesbian couple in a Hollywood movie, it was with a producer, John Wayne, who had worked on a series of feature films on lesbians. To prepare some money, the idea was to shoot a couple getting married in a church that was being turned into a prison camp for lesbian couples, but the film was cut from its script and moved to the film office, where it would be shown before all the other big name filmmakers were taken in by the idea for the film.”
“In a Bottle:” is this film, written by Harriman, described in detail (and adapted from Harriman’s autobiography) as a “lazy work of American film.” It features the first and only lesbian couple in a Hollywood movie, both of whom are in their late forties, who are living together in the town of Mariposa. Despite the fact that no one had ever seen any “Lifeless Woman” in action before on “A Boy, Where Angels Are, Where Men Are,” the couple in question never saw one. Instead, the couple is shown in a closet, with only a tiny “kiss” and no one knowing what it is. This was filmed “by a French film producer and directed by one Frank and the director Francois Fichter”. In order to preserve this film from getting cut, Fichter and his colleague David Mutharne directed (and financed) it with the assistance of former director Don Murayama in 1950. The film was also made for an American distributor called Cinema Corporation that produced the short, but at about the same time another American film, The Adventures and the Quest for Camelot, was the very same short, but it was done for a
5. When Cathy looks at the train she ultimately has two choices, attempt to join Mr. Deegan, or forget about it. In the end she chooses the later and lets him leave and start a new life without her. While she was making her decision she had two contradictory thoughts in her head, 1) I want to be together, and