The Beaver Film Analysis

The Beaver is a 2011 dramedy (dark comedy) film directed by and starring Jodie Foster. Written by Kyle Killen the moive also stars Mel Gibson, Anton Yelchin, Jennifer Lawrence and Riley Thomas Stewart. The story doucuments a man in a mid-life crisis, a boy, a girl, a husband, a wife a father and son and a crumbling family providing a glimpes in to the life of Walter Black, a depressed and trouble husband, the beaver, a hand puppet Walter found in the trash, Meredith Black, Walter’s wife, Porter Black, the teenage son of Walter and Meredith, who wants his mother to get a divorce, Norah, Porter’s love interest with a secret, and Henry Black, the youngest son of Walter and Meredith Black. The film is about Walter Black the depressed Chief Executive Officer of Jerry Company, a toy manufacturer entity nearing bankruptcy. He is thrown out by his wife, to the relief of their elder son Porter. Walter moves into a hotel. Following some binge drinking and an …show more content…
In a way Porter is using splitting to cope or to pacify his own depression. He is writing papers for other people, in their own voice. When Norah hires Porter to write her paper, he does some research. What is finds is the reason why she cannot write the paper herself; she has not dealt with, her brother 's suicide. Norah original way of coping was tagging. According to the urban dictionary, tagging is a method of signing your name anonymous, using either random words or symbols. Taggingis not to be confused with graffiti. Unlike graffiti, it usually takes less time or skill and it is done in one color with a single can of spray paint or thick marker. It could be possible that at the time of the original tagging Norah was attempting to ask for help that had not been proffered because she was a child. Her inability to write the speech arises as a direct result of her suppression of self to make her mother