Maslow's Third Step

This film portrays Maslow’s first step because during the whole entire movie they were showing examples of how there were a lot of basic needs that were needed that they couldn’t get because he was broke, and had nothing to get those things that he needed for the biological and physical needs. The actions that were taken to show a motivation to have the needs met was that he started an internship that could lead him to getting to very high places later in life, he always fed his son even if he couldn’t eat, he would tucking his son into bed every night for safety, and he also would do everything he could to get him and his son into the homeless shelter so his son could have somewhere to sleep.
This film portrays Maslow’s second step because during the movie he tried and somewhat succeeded stability. He did the same thing everyday to take care of him and his son and they had the same schedules and to try and keep a normal life even though in no way did they have a normal life. He had a motivation to get things to normal even though sometimes it seemed like nothing in life could go right, he would always no matter what try his hardest. He also had limits too, he would
There was times when he was in such a dark place and he would yell and get angry, but he always loved his son. Towards the beginning of the movie him and his son were playing basketball and chris told his son not to ever get his hopes up about basketball because he would never be good enough to go major so he shouldn’t focus on it. But then when he reasized how much it hurt his son he told his son to never let someone tell him what he can and can’t do in his life, even himself. This is an example of motivation to have love and belongingness because his dad showed him so much love and support in this one talk which was showing that in this stage him and his son were really getting somewhere