Film Analysis: Rocky Mountains Of Montana

Cierra Moreno

Humanities 1302

Freudian Pschology

Monday 20th 2016

Rocky Mountains of Montana

Once in a blue moon, a movie director creates a film, which is filled with so many disturbing, yet intoxicating lessons. Legends of the Fall, a 1994 drama film directed by Edward Zwick, is known as a western saga. Set in the Rocky Mountains of Montana during the early 1900’s, this is a tale of love, betrayal an brotherhood. The story the film portrays is told by an elderly Native American, known as One Stab, through letters he has collected over the time of his life. The film is based on the lives of three sons known as Alfred, Tristan and Samuel whom live with their father the colonel and share a common love known as Susannah. The Film portrays

In the Legends of the Fall, Susannah gives off a sense of regression. Regression if defined as a person reaching a specific stage of development, then retreating to an earlier stage because of the fear. For example, moral anxiety may cause a person to do something impulsive so that he or she will be punished the same way they would be punished as a child. Moreover, Susannah displayed regression when she decided to go upstairs, she then proceeded to look in the mirror and decide to cut off two clumps of her hair. Usually this is an action one would see a young child committing, maybe because they are rebelling against their loved one’s. In continuing with the scene we see Susannah staring at herself in the mirror, she grabbed a gun and shot a bullet through her head. The gun shot echoed through the house, Alfred later came home to discover his wife dead and had to deliver the tragic news to his family, including Tristan. Moreover, one typically see’s this behavior displayed by young girls, because she wanted what she could not have. Susannah’s behavior could be the effect of Samuel’s death as well as Isabel Two’s death. In the scene where Susannah visits Tristan in jail, she says,“ I wanted her to die, maybe I even wanted Samuel to die”. Susannah’s suicide was the effects of the cause of Samuel and Isabel’s deaths. She felt that she was responsible for wishing death upon them. As they say, be careful

These changes naturally occur in the younger stages of a child, however they can occur in the ages of an adult. As a person grows, they can experience a change in development in their psychological processes. Through learning a person can enhance their skills in dealing with their frustrations and anxieties. It is up to a person to figure out what exercises best suit their emotions, how they must control their physiological process. Using their id, ego and super ego, this will help a person learn morals as to what is acceptable in society. Sometimes it is easy for a person to learn, but sometimes people are sick in the mind and cannot help what they feel inside. They may grow our of it, or they may take their own life because of it. Either way Sigmund Freud helped many people understand the studies and exchanges within a person personality, This has to be one of Freud’s greatest achievement’s in