CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Movie Review
The movie that we chose for this assignment is Big Daddy. This movie is about a 30-year-old man, Sonny decided to adopt a five-year-old child, Julian, in order to prove to his girlfriend that he is not a useless man and he is able to deal with adults’ challenges and responsibilities like others do (Maslin, 1999).
There are a lot of bonding sessions between Sonny and Julian whereby Julian starts to learn social interaction from his ‘daddy’. Also, we can see the character development on Julian throughout the movie. This is where Julian changes from an introverted boy become to an active boy and this is the results of the way Sonny has taught him.
In this selected movie, we will only focus on the …show more content…
The first scene is when Julian is crying, the only way can make him stop crying is to see Sonny get hurt and then it will only cheer him up. So, Sonny gets a bang to the car on purpose. After he gets a bang to the car, Julian stop crying and laugh on him. The scene is related to the egocentric component because, in this stage of child’s development, he cannot put himself in Sonny’s shoes. Next, when Julian is playing a card game with Sonny and a delivery guy. Julian put down his cards and says he got a six, a fix, a jack, a four and an eight so he wins. Sonny and the delivery guy was shocked and asked him why Julian win the card game. Julian says, “Because I win.” Julian has only cared with his point of view on how the game is played and the reasons why he wins. He developed his own rules and regulations of the game after he observed Sonny’s friends playing the game a few times. This scene is related to the egocentric component of a child’s development in this stage is because Julian’s thought and communication are typically egocentric (Scheibe, 2007). He is unable to see a situation from another person’s perspective and set his own rules and regulations in the game. He assumes that other people see, hear and feel exactly the same as he does. Julian’s thinking is illogical and his or her way to deal with critical thinking is unsystematic. After he …show more content…
In the other word, the children will practice “monkey see, monkey do” in their daily lives. In this stage, Piaget considered that children have no ability to judge and cannot master apprehend (Crawford and Walker, 2008). The children in this stage also lack the cognitive ability of reversibility, to realize that working backward can modify the information before (Bee and Boyd, 2011). In this movie “Big Daddy”, the five-year-old kid, Julian had learnt the behaviours through the observation from the adults. Julian had no idea about what he should do and should not because he has not reached the logical stage, he cannot differentiate between bad behaviour and good behaviour. For instance, there was a scene showed that the ‘daddy’, Sonny put a stick on the road when a man who was playing the skateboard and let him fell down. The next day, when Sonny brought Julian to a public park, Julian has copied it and put the stick to make people fell down as the way Sonny did. Besides, Julian even did it in the school, he tripped a student with a stick and Julian found it hilarious. Julian always felt happy when he saw Sonny got hurt by him because he found out that Sonny was elated when others get
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Movie Review
The movie that we chose for this assignment is Big Daddy. This movie is about a 30-year-old man, Sonny decided to adopt a five-year-old child, Julian, in order to prove to his girlfriend that he is not a useless man and he is able to deal with adults’ challenges and responsibilities like others do (Maslin, 1999).
There are a lot of bonding sessions between Sonny and Julian whereby Julian starts to learn social interaction from his ‘daddy’. Also, we can see the character development on Julian throughout the movie. This is where Julian changes from an introverted boy become to an active boy and this is the results of the way Sonny has taught him.
In this selected movie, we will only focus on the …show more content…
The first scene is when Julian is crying, the only way can make him stop crying is to see Sonny get hurt and then it will only cheer him up. So, Sonny gets a bang to the car on purpose. After he gets a bang to the car, Julian stop crying and laugh on him. The scene is related to the egocentric component because, in this stage of child’s development, he cannot put himself in Sonny’s shoes. Next, when Julian is playing a card game with Sonny and a delivery guy. Julian put down his cards and says he got a six, a fix, a jack, a four and an eight so he wins. Sonny and the delivery guy was shocked and asked him why Julian win the card game. Julian says, “Because I win.” Julian has only cared with his point of view on how the game is played and the reasons why he wins. He developed his own rules and regulations of the game after he observed Sonny’s friends playing the game a few times. This scene is related to the egocentric component of a child’s development in this stage is because Julian’s thought and communication are typically egocentric (Scheibe, 2007). He is unable to see a situation from another person’s perspective and set his own rules and regulations in the game. He assumes that other people see, hear and feel exactly the same as he does. Julian’s thinking is illogical and his or her way to deal with critical thinking is unsystematic. After he …show more content…
In the other word, the children will practice “monkey see, monkey do” in their daily lives. In this stage, Piaget considered that children have no ability to judge and cannot master apprehend (Crawford and Walker, 2008). The children in this stage also lack the cognitive ability of reversibility, to realize that working backward can modify the information before (Bee and Boyd, 2011). In this movie “Big Daddy”, the five-year-old kid, Julian had learnt the behaviours through the observation from the adults. Julian had no idea about what he should do and should not because he has not reached the logical stage, he cannot differentiate between bad behaviour and good behaviour. For instance, there was a scene showed that the ‘daddy’, Sonny put a stick on the road when a man who was playing the skateboard and let him fell down. The next day, when Sonny brought Julian to a public park, Julian has copied it and put the stick to make people fell down as the way Sonny did. Besides, Julian even did it in the school, he tripped a student with a stick and Julian found it hilarious. Julian always felt happy when he saw Sonny got hurt by him because he found out that Sonny was elated when others get