Invincible Movie Psychological Analysis

A Psychological Approach to an Athlete’s Mind The clock is ticking down and your opponent is about to score a touchdown. You see a path to stop them. You run, zig-zag through a sea of angry opponents and you manage to interfere resulting in a victory. In the eyes of an athlete, doing what they do best, it can be difficult to focus on victory when a plethora of emotions and adrenaline rushes in your body. Physically training an athlete might be easy but what is difficult is mentally training them to approach the field with a clear and alert mind. There might be setbacks such as their own personality and mentality towards the sport, anxiety and just having sheer motivation. In the 2006 movie, Invincible, starring Mark Wahlberg, as 30-year-old Vince Papale, tells a true story of how an average person achieves their wildest dreams while fighting through physical and mental obstacles. In the beginning of the movie, Vince is a bartender with a rough life, barely making ends meet in a terrible economy. He is personable, reliable, ambitious, and passionate. Amidst losing his job and getting limited hours at the bar, his only ways of income, the one thing in his life that has kept him going, is his love for football. In the beginning, he is resentful and struggles …show more content…
The attribution theory is a theory that proposes an explanation of people’s successes and failures. The theory uses three factors; stability, locus of causality and locus of control, that can explain just that. In the opening of the movie, the unfortunate events and bad luck of Vince Papale is the factor that ascribes failure. The external cause of causality is when believed that he wasn’t good enough for anybody, not for teaching, not for his wife and surely not for any opportunities that came knocking on his door. Finally, the factor that was out of Vince’s control was the bad economy and the fact that gaining employment during this time was extremely