Communication In The Film Love Actually
Love, Actually- How Communication is Used in the Film Merriam-Webster dictionary defines communication as “the act or process of using words, sounds, signs, or behaviors to express or exchange information or to express your ideas, thoughts, feelings, etc., to someone else.” Communication is part of everyday life. Without communication, the world would be chaos. In the film “Love, Actually,” there are ten love stories that are depicted, each one very unique. The film was a wonderful choice to use for this essay. At the beginning of the film we see a famous singer, Billy Mack, recording a new song for Christmas, which he hates. However, his manager, Joe, wants to see the song at the top of the charts. They don’t have the best relationship,
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He goes to the wedding but comes home early, and finds his girlfriend to be sleeping with his brother. He shows then that he is in the terminating stage of his relationship. He also stonewalls the two entirely. He eventually falls in love with Aurelia, in which we see them go through all 5 stages of relationship development. The couple getting married, Juliet and Peter, show commitment and intimacy on the day of their wedding. Mark, Peter’s best man, is in love with Juliet, and he avoids her at all costs. He will not even start the initiating stage with her, but when he finally expresses his love to her, she acknowledges it with a kiss, where at that point he realizes he can give it up and move on. The next couple we see is David, the prime minister, and Natalie. Natalie and David instantly go through the initiating stage because they work in a close proximity. He then engages in the experimenting stage. David instantly realizes that he wants a relationship with her, but has her transferred somewhere else because of the risk of rumors with his job. He finally realizes she’s what he wants, though, and runs after her and we quickly see them go through the intensifying and integrating stage, and in the end the bonding
He goes to the wedding but comes home early, and finds his girlfriend to be sleeping with his brother. He shows then that he is in the terminating stage of his relationship. He also stonewalls the two entirely. He eventually falls in love with Aurelia, in which we see them go through all 5 stages of relationship development. The couple getting married, Juliet and Peter, show commitment and intimacy on the day of their wedding. Mark, Peter’s best man, is in love with Juliet, and he avoids her at all costs. He will not even start the initiating stage with her, but when he finally expresses his love to her, she acknowledges it with a kiss, where at that point he realizes he can give it up and move on. The next couple we see is David, the prime minister, and Natalie. Natalie and David instantly go through the initiating stage because they work in a close proximity. He then engages in the experimenting stage. David instantly realizes that he wants a relationship with her, but has her transferred somewhere else because of the risk of rumors with his job. He finally realizes she’s what he wants, though, and runs after her and we quickly see them go through the intensifying and integrating stage, and in the end the bonding