Analysis Of The Movie Maternal And Paternal Instincts

Maternal and paternal instinct drive many family obligations, a major one being caring for your children and making sure that they survive. This one theme is tested in both Force Majeure and Medea and if it wasn’t, there would be no driving plot to either works. In Force Majeure, Ebba and Tomas’s relationship strains are brought into the limelight as a result of Tomas abandoning his family in their hour of need during an avalanche. As a parent, one is expected to think of one’s children first in a life or death situation and preserve one’s offspring at all costs. Tomas tends to stray from that ideal from the very beginning, Ebba even hints that Tomas has not been the best father because he has â€Å"been working so much† and â€Å"now he has time to focus on his family†. From this the viewer gets a glimpse of what life has been like for the family outside of the parameters of the movie plot. One can see that maybe this is not just an out of t he blue occasion, for him to be leaving his family in a time of need. He might have been slacking on his responsibilities as a father and this event acted like the catalyst for Ebba to bring up the issues she might have been internalizing before coming on vacation. Now that Tomas is actually focusing on his family, he seems to reflect upon himself and his family and does not like what he sees. In the scene where he and Ebba are yet again talking outside of their hotel room he states that he is â€Å"really disappointed in him too† when apologizing toShow MoreRelatedThe Changing Nature of Family Life in Contemporary Society Essay3339 Words   |  14 Pagesattempts to transfer Horror fiction from the page to the silver screen, there have been moral panics in response to the horror genre. In 1973, The Exorcist (directed by William Friedkin, US, 1973) provoked outrage, and sections of the movie had to be removed in response to worldwide complaints and panic as to the overtly sexual and violent nature of its content, not to mention accusations of religious blasphemy. Similarly, throughout the 1980s, there were campaigns againstRead MoreI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou6502 Words   |  27 PagesAnalysis: Chapters 1–5 The lines from the poem Maya cannot finish, â€Å"What are you looking at me for? I didn’t come to stay . . .† capture two of the most significant issues she struggles with in her childhood and young adulthood: feeling ugly and awkward and never feeling attached to one place. First, Maya imagines that though people judge her unfairly by her awkward looks, they will be surprised one day when her true self emerges. At the time, she hopes that she will emerge as if in a fairy-taleRead MoreThe Five Dysfunctions of a Team a Leadership Fable46009 Words   |  185 Pagesthe Chairman’s sanity when he suggested they hire Kathryn. But he eventually wore them down. For one, the board believed their Chairman when he ï ¬â€šat out assured them that Kathryn would succeed. Second, he had been known to have extremely good instincts about people, notwithstanding the problem with Jeff. He certainly wouldn’t make two mistakes in a row, they reasoned. But perhaps most important of all (though no one would 11 07Lencioni/Kathryn 2/10/02 3:31 PM Page 12 The Five