Stepmom Review
For the options assignment, I watched the movie Stepmom. This movie is about divorced couple and their struggles. Together they have two children, Benjamin and Anna, who live with their mother, Jackie. The children have weekend visits with their father, Luke, who recently had his girlfriend, Isabelle, to move in with him. Jackie does not like Isabelle because she thinks Isabelle is a not a good role model for her children. The children pick up on the fact that their mother does not like Isabelle, so they are very rude to her every time they stay at their father's house. In the movie, Anna said to her mother, "If you want me to hate her (Isabelle) I will." This shows that she picks up on the negativity between her mother and Isabelle. The movie takes a dramatic turn when Jackie is diagnosed with Breast Cancer. She is forced to seek treatment immediately in California. After her various treatment options fail to remove the cancer, she is faced with the reality that she is going to die. Around the same time, Luke also asks Isabelle to marry him. The children are now faced with losing their mother and learning to like their soon to be step-mom. This overall theme of theme of this movie is how to deal with someone who is
The ideas in this film definitely support class lectures and discussions. Each person's reactions were consistent with his or her age range. The biggest differences in reactions are in Ben and Anna. Ben is still in grade school, and does not quite understand why his mom is going die. He is very curious in the movie as to what is going on with his mom and what kinds of medicines she was taking. Ben's reaction was subtler and does not quite understand that she is not coming back. He did not really understand what exactly cancer is. To try and ease any anxieties he may have, Jackie tries to focus on making photographic memories of them. Anna's reaction was quite a bit more intense. She knew about death and what cancer means. Since Anna was almost a teenager, she had a better grasp on what death is than Ben. Other people in the movie went through stages that compliment class notes. Jackie, for example, went through some of Elizabeth Kubbler-Ross' stages in order to make peace within. She had to do this to make her sure that she enjoyed her last days with her family. The movie does not go into real specific emotions with Jackie, Luke or Isabelle. They movie focused more on the reaction of Anna and Ben since they were the ones that were affected the most. Overall, this movie did a good job of supporting the ideas discussed in the class lectures. For only being a film, they portrayed a very heartfelt story that many people can relate to. dying. This is a crisis s situation and they all must deal with it in their own way. It affects everyone i
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