Movie: How to lose a guy in 10 days
“How to lose a guy in 10 days”, is a story about a magazine writer, Andie Anderson, who wants to write about politics in a fashion magazine, but her editor wont let her until she’s able to sell her “how to” column, and has already gathered loyal readers. Andie reluctantly reconsiders and suddenly hits on the idea of "How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days" as a topic. Then, she met Benjamin Barry, a popular and rising advertising executive, who in order to have a handsome pay off, has to make a girl fall in love with him in just 10 days. They caught each other’s eyes at a bar, thus having a subject for their respective goals.
According to James Burgoon, a communication scholar at the University of Arizona, personal space is the “invisible, variable volume of space surrounding an individual that defines that individual’s preferred distance from others.” The distance depends on our cultural norms and individual preferences. When we think that people dont respect this, we feel violated.
In the first scene, where they had just met at the bar, it was the guy who approached the girl. But it was the girl who first gave her name. The distance between them, if we based on Burgoon’s four interpersonal distances, it belonged to the intimate distance category. Its odd how two people, strange to each other, can be so comfortable in just that moment. The girl, didnt feel abused or violated with the distance between them, even the guy. They were as if, had known each other for such a long time already. I find it odd because our culture is different from theirs. Well, this continued for the following days.
In the next days however, where they have been so close that their attitudes were already in the air, annoyance was already present. Andie's efforts to make Benny reject her in the allocated time made him lengthen his patience for Andie. The intimate distance that they have enjoyed in their first few days, have been hell for the both of them later on. They felt violated everytime the other one gets closer to the other. Maybe because the expectations were not anymore the same with those of the first few days they had been together.
But even with all the efforts of Andie to get rid of Benny, Benny tried his best to keep her. Thats the funny yet sweet part of the story.
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"if we based on Burgoon’s four interpersonal distances"
As I mentioned in class, it was Edward T. Hall who proposed these interpersonal spaces which he explained in his book Hidden Dimension.
The violation part can be explained using all the efforts both character put into in achieving their expected outcome and these violations can either be positive or negative.
But you did not mention anything about reward.
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