When one sees through the hinge side in the history, seemingly endless ebbing away of days and a slow but steady decay of time, one is reminded of a quote of Dwight David Eisenhower, “The history of free men is never really written by chance, but by choice - their choice”. In a similar manner, love is something that happens by chance but is defined by our conscious and the movie, ‘Trainwreck’, proves it. Starring Amy Schumer, as a free-willed, but commitment fearing woman, and Bill Hader as Dr. Aaron Conners, a charming yet nerdy sports doctor, it is a movie that defies gender stereotypes but still follows the familiar romantic comedy genre. The movie focuses on how Amy deals with overcoming the teachings of her father, ‘Monogamy isn’t realistic’, a phrase on which Amy had based her life until she meets Aaron who convinces her to reconsider the stance. Building and maintaining any relationship takes …show more content…
It suggests that everything about us can be divided into four panes and the size of those panes depend on the amount of information each party possess. In the movie, the panes initially seemed to be of equal sizes as suggested in the initiation stage of the Knapp’s model. However, as the relationship progressed, it seemed that Aaron’s open window was much larger as he had disclosed about himself in the intensifying stage. Amy, on the other hand, had a much larger hidden pane because Aaron was unaware of most of Amy’s past relations which were later revealed to him by Tom, her sister’s husband. This was one of the main causes of the relationship going to the termination stage. The events of the movie also suggest that the Johari Window can also be applicable for Amy and her sister Kim as well as Aaron and LeBron which would suggest their open panes be much larger than the hidden ones since they shared almost everything with each