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Interpersonal Communication In The Movie 'Dan In Real Life'

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Recently, the class watched the movie “Dan in Real Life” and many people would be surprised just how much of this movie relates to what the class is currently learning about. For example, there is the use of nonverbal communication, the use of interpersonal communication, and the use of many other types of communications that are all found throughout the movie. The first thing I noticed was the nonverbal communication. Nonverbal communication provides us with a metamessage, I began noticing this whenever Dan was sent out by his mother and he went to the book store. When, he got to the book store he got out of his car and walked over to the edge of the fence and just stood there with a blank look on his face. He used his gestures to portray …show more content…

Interpersonal communication can vary from personal relationships, professional relationships, and on to family relationships. Dan and Ann-Marie show the signs of the romantic relationship stages, however, Ann-Marie and Mitch also show these signs. Stage one, whenever, Ann-Marie ask about the books at the bookstore is initiating. Stage two, when they begin to discuss about what like to do would relate to the experimenting stage. Stage three, would be whenever they go and have lunch together and just spend the evening together, this would be intensifying. The rest of the stages they shuffle through and aren’t particularly in order, however, they still end up going through them. Another relationship that is shown is the relationship between Dan and his children. They show a nuclear family, which is the Dan, Jane, Cara, and Lilly. This relationship goes on to change whenever Dan and Ann-Marie get married, it creates a stepfamily. We can also relate the four different panes to Dan’s life. The open area of Dan’s life is whenever he is using his own intellect to give others advice in his columns. The hidden area of his life could be whenever the people from the newspaper come to his house and he doesn’t tell them completely about his life. The blind area would be whenever his family and everyone around him knows that he is lonely, however he thinks he is content by himself, but his actions speak differently. The last area, is the unknown area, which could relate to the scene where he is playing the guitar, Ann-Marie didn’t know he could play, and I think he forgot he

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