Extinction: Movie Analysis
Anthony and Peter are two friends, as well as coworkers. Their relationship has a very mentoring, big brother existence. Three theories that would aid in depicting their relationship, would be extinction, conforming and rationalization.
Extinction
Extinction is “reinforcement for a behavior stops, resulting in the eventual decrease in frequency and possible eradication of that behavior” (Daniels, 2015). Extinction happens in this movie towards the end. At the end of the movie when Peter dies, his behavior becomes extinct. As well as, when Anthony changes his life after Cameron call him an embarrassment, his behavior becomes extinct. Throughout the movie, Anthony had always rationalized his robbing people by saying he only robbed white people, as if it did not affect the black community or as if he was helping the black community. After his interaction with Cameron, Anthony then begins doing things completely different from his old behavior, such as, riding the bus and letting the Cambodian people go for free.
Conforming …show more content…
According to Anthony, Peter is slightly conforming to society. Examples of Peter “conforming” could be the fact that he liked hockey and country music. In the beginning of the movie, Peter and Anthony were leaving a restaurant, but Anthony was upset that they did not receive the same service as the other patrons. Anthony believed that it was because the waiter was racist, while Peter who identified so closely with society, didn’t mind it and did not think it was racist. Towards the end of the movie, when Peter is riding in the car with Officer Tommy, he notices that Officer Tommy has the same statue as himself and begins to laugh. Officer Tommy thinks that he was being insulted, thus he becomes
Extinction
Extinction is “reinforcement for a behavior stops, resulting in the eventual decrease in frequency and possible eradication of that behavior” (Daniels, 2015). Extinction happens in this movie towards the end. At the end of the movie when Peter dies, his behavior becomes extinct. As well as, when Anthony changes his life after Cameron call him an embarrassment, his behavior becomes extinct. Throughout the movie, Anthony had always rationalized his robbing people by saying he only robbed white people, as if it did not affect the black community or as if he was helping the black community. After his interaction with Cameron, Anthony then begins doing things completely different from his old behavior, such as, riding the bus and letting the Cambodian people go for free.
Conforming …show more content…
According to Anthony, Peter is slightly conforming to society. Examples of Peter “conforming” could be the fact that he liked hockey and country music. In the beginning of the movie, Peter and Anthony were leaving a restaurant, but Anthony was upset that they did not receive the same service as the other patrons. Anthony believed that it was because the waiter was racist, while Peter who identified so closely with society, didn’t mind it and did not think it was racist. Towards the end of the movie, when Peter is riding in the car with Officer Tommy, he notices that Officer Tommy has the same statue as himself and begins to laugh. Officer Tommy thinks that he was being insulted, thus he becomes