Anthropological Values In The Film 'Music Box'

“The second anthropological trait of the human self is about being committed to particular values”, however, this does not last forever. Through experience and hardships, one will grow and their values will change, and they may commit to those values instead. In the film Music Box, Anne Talbot goes through extreme hardship causing the values of her job, her reputation, and her family to change. In the beginning of the film, Anne is seen conversing with her client who is a drug dealer. After winning his case, he thanks her and she turns to him and replies “remember who you are” curtly. Anne does not care whether or not her client committed any crimes; her job is to get all of her clients off. However, near the film’s conclusion, this value of winning the case over any criminal act changes when she turns her father in for the heinous war crimes he has committed. After she
She and her brother actually agree to not deal with the case as a criminal case, but to deal with it as their father. She puts her family before everything else. As the film progresses, Anne becomes increasingly upset with the prospect that maybe her father actually did commit the crimes he is being charged for, but still works relentlessly to defend him. In one of the final scenes, the audience sees how much family really means to Anne. She’s screaming and crying at her father, but also hugging him and asking him what they are going to do. She does not want to lose him, or have her son Mikey lose his grandpa, but he has committed atrocious crimes and she cannot bear to have him influence her son. Turning Michael Lazlo in displays the change in values from doing whatever she can to protect her family under any circumstances, to protecting her son from corruption and the dangers of the