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Regarding Henry Movie Analysis

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In the movie Regarding Henry, A lawyer named Henry is shot and loses his physical functions and his memory. When he comes back he has to adjust to his family life and his work, where his brain is in constant battle between his Id and his Superego. In the movie, he has two part of his brain at work: the Id, which is the reservoir of the instinctual and biological urges, and equally important Superego, which is the source of conscience that inhibits the socially undesirable impulses of the Id. In the beginning after immediately getting out of the hospital, his Id controls his brain, where he acts on his wants rather than his needs like a child mind in a body of a man. As an illustration, he goes out walking, going around doing what he pleases,

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