Die Welle is a german movie which is directed and written by Dennes Gansel and puslihed in 2008. The movie shows that according to a group of students in present-day Germany management autocracy of the Hitler would not even mentioned and a teacher is responsible for finishing weekly project whose subject is comparing and contrasting autoracy and anarchy.This teacher, Rainer Wenger (Jürgen Vogel), firstly wants to enter a weekly anarchy course, but he has to give the autocracy lecture. The teacher prefers an extraordinary style to teach the course to his students, which aims to process them in a different way. Then they begin to become a social group. Firstly, the students adopt acting as a group and as a whole rather than as an individual. Students adopt this bevahiour excessively due to the joy of belonging to a group so they begin to change into a different formation. For example, everyone wears white shirts, the band has a logo. Also, the most important indicator of the group is that they even find a special greeting among themselves.
The group is called The Wave which is the most important thing for these students because these students are in puberty period. Their hormone imbalance and interparental conflicts cause to depend on the group in terms of integrity, loyalty and exclusive reactions across the others. According to Erikson’s Pychosocial Teory to achieve a healty personality, an individual must succesfully resolve a crisis at each of the eight stages of development. 5th stage is releated to these students because this stage contains 12 to 18 ages and explains identity versus role confusion. He argued that in order to arrive at a mature sexual and occupational identity, every adolescent must examine his identity and the roles he must occupy. He must achieve an integrated sense of self, of what he wants to do and be, and of his appropriate sexual role. The risk is that the adolescent will suffer from
References: 1) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1063669/ 2) Boyd, D. & Bee, H. (2006). Lifespan Development.4th Edition. Boston: Allyn and Bacon