Thursday, February 3, 2011
movie
The discussion in class had me thinking about a movie I saw about two weeks ago. It was about a young couple engaged to be married after high school. They have been together most of their high school years. The girl was having second thoughts about getting married and had plans on tell her fiancee. When she planned on telling him he had a bad accident which left him paralyzed from the neck down. He hit his head on a rock and broke his neck after jumping in shallow water. She refused to touch and kiss him. She would go days without seeing him before she confessed to him how she felt. I guess seeing her fiancee hooked to machines and metal bars in his head cause her to look at him different. She left him to explore her needs and wants in life. To make a long story short she came back to him when she realized she couldn't get him out of her mind. He did have family support from mom and dad, along with friends, He was able to get the use of his upper extremities so he could direct his wheelchair. I really didn't like the movie. I was a bit disappointed by the way she handled the situation and at the end she went to her ex-fiancee without any explanation.
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I watched another movie in which the girlfriend couldn't deal with her lover's total paralysis and wouldn't come to visit him in the hospital. She said she loved him but couldn't bear to see him in his condition and wanted to remember him as he was. My gut reaction was she was superficial but after thinking about it I can understand her reaction. She had memories of how he was before that were so drastically different from the after and she didn't know how to cope. I think that as OTASs we have a different level of tolerance for mental and physical disabilities/deformities or we wouldn't be going into the field but we aren't going through the loss the loved ones are experiencing from the affects of the injury/illness and we need to understand that and not judge them for their inability to cope.
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