Film Analysis: The Jarrett Family

Confrontation The Jarrett family is known as an overall dysfunctional family because of situations and losses that happened in the family. Buck their eldest son died in a boating accident with conrad the younger son. Buck eventually lets go of the boat during a storm while conrad continues to hang on, later on this causes him to have PTSD. Conrad ends up trying to kill himself due to this traumatic experience he encountered at sea. After buck's death beth, their mother detaches herself from her family and doesn't know how to love her son. The main conflict within this movie is conrad, calvin the father, and beth's conflicts of passiveness and flight mode when they fight over simple things underlined with the burden of bucks death. With all of this miscommunication they have it can be fixed by simple communication steps that create safety. Some examples of this
In the movie conrad tries to hug his mother and she can't hug him back due to the issues she already has with him. Calvin stands by and sees her not able to hug him back and his feelings shift for her. Later on he explains to her that he doesn't love her anymore because she's not able to love her own son. She ends up leaving both conrad and calvin to go live with her mother and that's when the movie ends. There's no evidence from the movie to prove that she actually loved her son or not but if she did she never showed it. Her reaction to him hugging her is a good example of flight since she froze and wasn't able to do anything. What could have solved this whole problem was if beth communicated to conrad the value of their relationship and how important it was to her. If she had told conrad that then he never would thought she hated him and didn't love him at all. Then that would've prevented calvin from stopping loving her and she would've never left the