Regarding Henry Analysis

In the film “Regarding Henry”, Henry is a successful lawyer in New York and one night he gets shot in the head and suffers brain injury. The movie follows Henry’s recovery from the gunshot as he relearns how to function as an adult and struggles to remember things from before. After getting shot, Henry experiences a transition from Id to Superego. Before he was shot, his behavior was selfish and instinctive, and after he was shot his behavior showed more morals and was overly ethical. I think Henry’s natural state is the Superego because after he was shot he didn’t have any past memories or outside influences and it revealed his moral side. In the movie there are several scenes that reveal Henry’s Id. The first scene that showed this was in the courtroom at the beginning of the movie when he was defending the hospital against a patient who had warned the hospital of a condition that had caused a problem. This was the Id because Henry was just manipulating the case and the information so that he would win it, even though he must have known that it truly was the hospital’s fault. Another obvious scene that reveals the Id would be when he goes to the convenience store to buy cigarettes. Instead of …show more content…
I think that before he was shot he had become adjusted to the Id way of life because of who he worked with and surrounded himself with. I think that the fact that he realized his mistakes and took responsibility for them after he was shot reveals his true colors and the fact that his natural state is the Superego. The way Henry lived his life before he was shot strongly reflected the Id because he ignored his morals and did things out of instincts and selfishness. After he was shot his behavior reflected the Superego because he thought more critically about his actions and what was right and