Saturday, September 27, 2008

Interpersonal Communication

i am sorry that i cant upload any video about the movie as there are some errors.
However, people who are interested can go
L.O.V.E
What is love? How individual involved into relationship? Usually people do not know how. To us we just get into relationship by natural or break up as we can not get well together. In this chapter (interpersonal communication), I just learned that actually there are five steps on how we get into a relationship and the five steps on how people break up which is the Knapp Model of Relational Development.

I just re-watched 50 first dates as Ms Hui asked us to watch during the weekend for the communication exam. To me, this movie is quite romantic as the male leading role (Harry) continued to love the girl (Lucy) although she got a symptom that she will forgot everything when she take new information.

This movie can applied the five steps (coming together) exactly, it started as Harry was known as a flirt guy and he did not want to make any promises to the women that he dated which is no commitment and bonding. However, by accidentally he met this girl Lucy in an island when his ship was spoiled, and was attracted by her action (kinesics, body movement)

As he watching her action, he decided to make a move (initiating) by helping her to solve the problem about the “pancake house’s door”. After that they started to have a small talk about what they are working as and so on, which is the stage 2 (experimenting ) in Knapp Model.

Conversely, I believe every relationship have their problem and conflict because we are human being, we are not the same. Each of us has their uniqueness and differences. In this case, Lucy is using stage 9’s method which is avoiding Harry. As she feels that she is the burden for him and wanted to terminate the relationship.

For my personal opinion, this movie was romantic as it was different from what we normally see and it show the stages when we are in a relationship. It also sees that Harry tried hard to win her heart as he was willing to scarify his timing for her. I believed conflict with the partner is the way to strengthen the relationship and get more understanding the personality that the partners have.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

that was a really nice movie. its interesting how love comes and goes. the stages to which how people get into a realationship to how people get our of one sounds cool. gotta hear it sometime soon!

October 20, 2008 at 12:34 AM  
Blogger fen said...

Love is blind. And I guess many of us are willing to be "blinded" by love.

Let's talk abit about love. Are you willing to accept all the differences and flaws of your loved ones? Yes, love comes and goes. But to me, true love don't. Love comes with responsibility.

If you really love someone, you would sacrifice for him or her. And accept everything about him, stay by his side through thick and thin.

October 20, 2008 at 9:42 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Personally i have watched this show quite a long time ago, i think that that guy is really very sweet, can't imagine that a guy can keep chasing a girl for so long, i don't think it will happen at real life.
Ok .. back to interpersonal communication it is quite cool to know that there are 10 stages which i never notice that i really does that too !

November 7, 2008 at 11:27 PM  

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