Empathy, Egoism In One Day, And The Real Girl
Both movies One Day and Two Nights and Lars and the Real Girl focus on protagonists who need immediate group response, which can be understood and evaluated via the social psychological constructs of empathy, altruism, and egoism.
Sandra, married mother of two and an employee in a company who returns to work after taking medical leave discovers that her co-workers were forced by their foreman to vote: for their 1,000 € bonus or to keep her as an employee. The company cannot afford both so the workers must decide. With support from her husband and workmate Juliette, Sandra convinces her boss to allow another vote on Monday morning. Over the next 2 days, Sandra travels and seeks out her co-workers one by one, having a personal meeting with each …show more content…
“Having a girlfriend”, even if she is unreal, gives him ability to participate and have interactions within community members. Community take Bianca seriously in fact all develop their individual relationships with her. She becomes a companion and a friend, someone to share secrets and talk about clothes with. Bianca gets her hair styled at the beauty salon, and she is asked to volunteer at the hospital. She is even elected to the school board. Bianca’s social life, having her own plans without Lars makes Lars angry. He shows his egoism when he stars a fight with her. He still meets with the doctor weekly who is able to provide understanding, unconditional positive regard and empathy and in the way his painful past becomes apparent, that in his father changes and his brother abandonment and on his distance when his mother died.
The therapist, family and the community respond to Lars needs by showing their unconditional positive regard and empathic understanding of his illusion that Bianca is a real woman. Lars's growth becomes more visible when he goes bowling with his co-worker Margo and some of his friends and his ability to enjoy and participate with others. As Lars becomes better able to relate to others, he seems to need Bianca less and less. In his own fantasy Lars makes her to become sick and she eventually dies which means he is ready to move
Sandra, married mother of two and an employee in a company who returns to work after taking medical leave discovers that her co-workers were forced by their foreman to vote: for their 1,000 € bonus or to keep her as an employee. The company cannot afford both so the workers must decide. With support from her husband and workmate Juliette, Sandra convinces her boss to allow another vote on Monday morning. Over the next 2 days, Sandra travels and seeks out her co-workers one by one, having a personal meeting with each …show more content…
“Having a girlfriend”, even if she is unreal, gives him ability to participate and have interactions within community members. Community take Bianca seriously in fact all develop their individual relationships with her. She becomes a companion and a friend, someone to share secrets and talk about clothes with. Bianca gets her hair styled at the beauty salon, and she is asked to volunteer at the hospital. She is even elected to the school board. Bianca’s social life, having her own plans without Lars makes Lars angry. He shows his egoism when he stars a fight with her. He still meets with the doctor weekly who is able to provide understanding, unconditional positive regard and empathy and in the way his painful past becomes apparent, that in his father changes and his brother abandonment and on his distance when his mother died.
The therapist, family and the community respond to Lars needs by showing their unconditional positive regard and empathic understanding of his illusion that Bianca is a real woman. Lars's growth becomes more visible when he goes bowling with his co-worker Margo and some of his friends and his ability to enjoy and participate with others. As Lars becomes better able to relate to others, he seems to need Bianca less and less. In his own fantasy Lars makes her to become sick and she eventually dies which means he is ready to move