So thinking again about the movie "It's Complicated", Meryl Streep's character "Jane" goes through a lot of the issues that we have touched upon in class. Although fictional, it was still beneficial to see how some of these scenarios can potentially play out in someone's life and in all the complicated situations that may occur.
Launching: This is brought up right away, as Jane prepares to send off her youngest child to college. We see her spend her first nights alone in the house, and how that stirs up conflicting emotions for her.
Career Divorced: Jane has been divorced for 10 years, and sees herself as somewhat significantly tied to that identity. She has gone through a lot of self-discovery and come to terms with the end of her marriage but without entering any additional marriages.
Jake, Alec Baldwin's character, is also addressing some issues that we encountered in class.
Multiple family stages: Jake is launching his youngest child from his first marriage with Jane, while also dealing with the pre-school stage in his new family unit. As he considers having another child with his new wife, Jake almost re-enters the infant stage of parenting and family life. As we can see through this example, going through the different stages is not necessarily linear in nature, especially with the creation of new families through divorce and remarriage.
There are many other sub-plots and examples of topics from class, but these have been the ones that stuck out the most for me personally.
This movie was very similar to how my family is, the only difference was the age of the parents. For instance, my sister's dad and mom launched my sister off to college in August and in his new relationship he has a one year old and just had a newborn baby. So while watching this movie I was definitely able to relate and see similarities that I see within my own family. Furthermore, not only was the movie great, it was also very relatable because it touched on so many instances that occur in many people's families. I guess in a way it made everything more real.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the input! That for sure does give a little more credibility to the movie, knowing that you and your family are experiencing some of the same things!
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