Parenthood Movie Paper
“Parenthood” Movie Paper
While watching the movie “Parenthood” I took an interest in the character Gary Buckman. Gary is the youngest child to Helen Buckman who is Gil, the main characters, sister. Helen is a single mother who is still struggling with the fact that her ex-husband wants nothing to do with his children and is refusing to help raise them. Gary has an older sister, Julie, who, instead of worrying about SAT scores she is totally wrapped up in her boyfriend Todd, who is a race car wannabe that is not too much liked by Helen.
Gary’s behavior from the beginning of the movie is odd. He is quite and not very open with his mother. He has angry posters plastered all over his bedroom door and a padlock locking his door preventing anyone from entering his space. He sneaks in and out of the house carrying this very suspicious paper bag and when asked about it he gives very little information about what it contains. He is growing up in a space of women without a male figure in his life, as he has never known his father. He battles the fact that there is no father figure in his life the whole movie and shows that he is disgruntled at his mother because of this. To me Gary is stuck in Piaget’s Concrete Operational period of development. This is the stage generally of classified in the six to eleven year olds. In this stage of middle childhood children gain the ability to reason logically about their direct experiences and perceptions. Gary understands the logic of things around him and rationally and objectively has been interrupting the different things happening around him, focusing mostly on the things that he is seeing and most differently hearing around him. He is quietly standing in the room when he hears his mom and sister discussing how men are scum to Gary he feels that they are talking about him directly because he is the only male in the house. He feels that the females in his house are the reason why no males want to come around and
While watching the movie “Parenthood” I took an interest in the character Gary Buckman. Gary is the youngest child to Helen Buckman who is Gil, the main characters, sister. Helen is a single mother who is still struggling with the fact that her ex-husband wants nothing to do with his children and is refusing to help raise them. Gary has an older sister, Julie, who, instead of worrying about SAT scores she is totally wrapped up in her boyfriend Todd, who is a race car wannabe that is not too much liked by Helen.
Gary’s behavior from the beginning of the movie is odd. He is quite and not very open with his mother. He has angry posters plastered all over his bedroom door and a padlock locking his door preventing anyone from entering his space. He sneaks in and out of the house carrying this very suspicious paper bag and when asked about it he gives very little information about what it contains. He is growing up in a space of women without a male figure in his life, as he has never known his father. He battles the fact that there is no father figure in his life the whole movie and shows that he is disgruntled at his mother because of this. To me Gary is stuck in Piaget’s Concrete Operational period of development. This is the stage generally of classified in the six to eleven year olds. In this stage of middle childhood children gain the ability to reason logically about their direct experiences and perceptions. Gary understands the logic of things around him and rationally and objectively has been interrupting the different things happening around him, focusing mostly on the things that he is seeing and most differently hearing around him. He is quietly standing in the room when he hears his mom and sister discussing how men are scum to Gary he feels that they are talking about him directly because he is the only male in the house. He feels that the females in his house are the reason why no males want to come around and