Regarding Henry Essay

In the film Regarding Henry, Henry Turner is a big shot trial Lawyer who will stop at nothing to win his cases. He is brutal, tough, and at times, dishonest. His aggressiveness would make him seem like Freud’s theory of the Id side of one’s consciousness, but his Id makes him a naturally good person and his evil side comes from his Superego.

In the beginning of the movie, Henry ends up going through a traumatic experience. When going to a store to buy some cigarettes, Henry is confused when the store clerk will not try to help him. He then sees that clerk was scared of a street thug that was holding a pistol and attempted robbing the store. Henry is scared and tries to run away. The thug shoots and the bullets fly into his brain and his heart. These incredibly unfortunate injuries led him into a coma for awhile and then brain damage when he woke up. While going through months of Physical
He struggles to say a word, but his first word ends up being Ritz. This seems like a cute little way for him to desire Ritz crackers, but he later finds out that that was the name of the hotel that he cheated on his wife with. Before getting shot, Henry was not a good person. In the opening scene, he wins a case between a hospital and a family by lying that the patient had not told the doctor that he was diabetic. I believe that the reason he had not been a naturally good person is because his superego, created by society, stressed him out so much that he became a monster. In the scene that Henry was talking to Rachel about the picture of him when he was a kid, he said that his dad never really approved of his work effort. He then decided to hand his company to his son. He probably had so much to live up to being compared to his father like that. His superego destroyed everything that should have mattered to