Essay On Regarding Henry

There are many theories to how the brain works, creates ideas, functions, and reacts to things certain ways. Only one however, a neurologist named Sigmund Freud, came up with the theory that the brain has a large unconscious realm. He identified three concepts of the personality. The first is the Id, otherwise known as the, “pleasure principle” because it is all self centered and based off what you desire. The second is the Ego, a rational and thoughtful decision maker, that functions on reality. The final concept is the Superego, which is strongly based off of one's moral principle. The film Regarding Henry in 1991, by director Mike Nichols, starring Harrison Ford, an angry hard nosed businessman, Henry, played by Harrison Ford, takes a trip to buy some cigarettes but is shot by a robber, putting him into a state of not having the ability to speak or move. He goes
It takes most of the film, but Henry reads a letter from his daughter which changes the course for who he will be the rest of his life. His daughter is miserable, because they sent her away to a boarding school. Henry drives to her with buddy, the puppy he bought her and says to the teacher, “I've missed the first eleven years… I Don't want to miss anymore.” and takes his daughter home. He morally realized it was wrong he sent her away and that he had to get her back. By this moment in the film Henry’s natural Id personality was gone and his new personality had started. A man can walk down one of three paths, the pleasure self involved path, a thoughtful reality path, or a moral principle path, it is always what you make it and what your natural state is. In Henry's case an Id personality drove him, but with a fresh start he discovered a new route. Anybody can choose the life they live and the way they want people to see them. But even if we turn the wrong way, it does not mean you can’t just turn