The Pawnbroker Movie Essay

Self- reflective is the sixth feature of cognition, which is defined as one who mediates about the person he or she has become and self reflect on that, similar to what Mr. Nazerman did when he was lonely. This feature of cognition applies to Mr. Nazerman’s personality change. After Mr. Nazerman realized how his loneliness was affecting his personality and outlook on life he changed his ways and became less of a hateful person. He realized that his behavior exemplifies maladaptive use of cognition because his attitude towards life generated a monstrous person. Mr. Nazerman was going through a difficult time with losing his family but that only made it worse by making him become into a hateful negative person, which does not benefit the situation

In the film, The Pawnbroker, Mr. Nazerman illustrates a great example for this feature of cognition. At first, he was a negative isolated man who had no one to interact with after his family was taken away from him. He shut himself to anyone who would try to be social with him because he was hurt with how society treated him and his family. Until he realized that he was going nowhere in life without the social world, he stepped out of the box and saw how he truly existed from interacting with people. This idea relates to us today, we have all these social network sites that help us interact with different people outside of our nationality or who impose different traditions than we do, thus we have a different outlook on different cultures and learn from them. Mumford states in his article “Reflections: Prologue to Our Time”, “Technological change and human improvement are now coupled together, and also by definition, the force that made for advance were inevitable, inviolable, and irresistible” (Mumford pg. 44). This idea Mumford makes, represents adaptive use of cognition because people now use social media to express who they are and their everyday thoughts, people now have become more social through these different social network