Movie Analysis
Natasha Wessels
Comm 140 Section C
Movie Analysis Essay
April 15, 2007
Interpersonal Communication is communication that occurs within interpersonal relationships. (pp132) Interpersonal relationships involve people who are interdependent. (pp133) These relationships can be complicated, but by expanding one's knowledge and learning new skills, one can improve their satisfaction within interpersonal relationships. There are three basic interpersonal needs that are satisfied through interaction with others. These needs are inclusion or becoming involved with others, affection or holding fond or tender feelings toward another person, and control or the ability to influence others our environment and ourselves. These needs can be fulfilled through a complementary or symmetrical relationship. A complementary relationship is one in which each person supplies something the other lacks, and a symmetrical relationship is one in which the participants mirror each other or are highly similar. (pp134) Knapp and Vangelisti modeled a ten stage theory outlining the interpersonal relationship. The first five stages cover relational development, the process by which relationships grow, as initiating, experimenting intensifying integrating and bonding. (pp139) Once bonding is completed the relationships shifts to relational maintenance, strategies for keeping the relationship together. Dealing with dialectics and contradictions. Dialectics is defined as tension that exist between two conflicting or interacting forces elements or ideas, and contradictions in dialectic theory means each person in a relationship has two opposing desires for maintaining the relationship. (pp140, 141) The last five stages cover relational deterioration, the process by which relationships disintegrate, as differentiating, circumscribing, stagnating, avoiding, and terminating. (pp141, 142) In the movie "Two Can Play That Game", the stages of relational development,
Comm 140 Section C
Movie Analysis Essay
April 15, 2007
Interpersonal Communication is communication that occurs within interpersonal relationships. (pp132) Interpersonal relationships involve people who are interdependent. (pp133) These relationships can be complicated, but by expanding one's knowledge and learning new skills, one can improve their satisfaction within interpersonal relationships. There are three basic interpersonal needs that are satisfied through interaction with others. These needs are inclusion or becoming involved with others, affection or holding fond or tender feelings toward another person, and control or the ability to influence others our environment and ourselves. These needs can be fulfilled through a complementary or symmetrical relationship. A complementary relationship is one in which each person supplies something the other lacks, and a symmetrical relationship is one in which the participants mirror each other or are highly similar. (pp134) Knapp and Vangelisti modeled a ten stage theory outlining the interpersonal relationship. The first five stages cover relational development, the process by which relationships grow, as initiating, experimenting intensifying integrating and bonding. (pp139) Once bonding is completed the relationships shifts to relational maintenance, strategies for keeping the relationship together. Dealing with dialectics and contradictions. Dialectics is defined as tension that exist between two conflicting or interacting forces elements or ideas, and contradictions in dialectic theory means each person in a relationship has two opposing desires for maintaining the relationship. (pp140, 141) The last five stages cover relational deterioration, the process by which relationships disintegrate, as differentiating, circumscribing, stagnating, avoiding, and terminating. (pp141, 142) In the movie "Two Can Play That Game", the stages of relational development,