Analysis Of The Movie Parenthood

Family is Forever Sometimes you can get a concept out of a movie that actually relates to you. I found some concepts in the movie “Parenthood” that relates to my family and I. First off, when I was growing up, I remember saying I was never going to grow up and teach my kids the way my parents did. I was the one that wouldn’t cause trouble, but I was also the one that didn’t want to do anything but play outside with the neighbor kids. I can almost guarantee you now that I will do some of the things my parents did in the ways they taught us growing up. It has taught my parents and also me after talking to them about it, that you don’t have to be perfect to make your kids act appropriately in the right settings. If you show affection towards your children, …show more content…
Gil says in the movie, “I want what you want.” This shows me he doesn’t really want what she wants, but he is willing to make a sacrifice to make his wife happy. I see this in not just my family, but in other families as well. Its quite often you hear someone ask if someone wants to do something, and the other person responds with it’s up to you, or I’ll do whatever you want to do. It’s saying that you are willing to sacrifice what you want to do, to do what makes the other person happy. This kind of ties into peer pressure where someone wants you to do something you don’t want to do, but you do it just to make them happy or to get their approval. Sometimes I don’t want to do something for my parents, but then I start thinking, they buy my clothes, they provide food for me to eat, they put a roof over my head, and many more things. What I’m saying is you can sacrifice a little bit of your time to do something for your parents because they have already provided you with everything. They do this because they love and it won’t hurt you to do something in return for