Movie Review
The movie I chose to do my movie review on was My Girl. It is a movie about a young girl named Veta and the story of her life as an kid going in to being a teenager. Starting her period and dealing with problems of rejection when her father is remarried to Shelly. Her best friend is a young boy named Thomas J and they have different adventures in the movie like spying on her father at bingo and throwing rocks at a bee hive and then jumping hi a lake. Veta thought that she was dying and was scared of things and Thomas would console her and talk to her. He wanted to be her boyfriend. Thomas J was allergic to many tilings and bees was one of them. At the end of the movie he was killed at the same bee hive him and Veta had gone. He was trying to get a moon ring that Veta had lost. Her father worked at the funeral home so she was told by him. She dealt with her mother's death, Thomas J death, and her father getting married which was a lot to handle at a young age.
I think that Veta and Thomas J where doing the formal operations stage discussed on page 108. This is the stage of a child 11 or over. Veta had begun to consider hypothetical possibilities. Examples are that she might die or that her father would love Shelly more than her. The formal operations stage is where a child can think about their thought. For Veta it was harder because all of the things that she was going through.
Also I thought that this movie explained Erik Erikson's theory of psychological dilemmas as discussed on page 114. Veta and Thomas were on stage four of his theory which is dealing with industry versus inferiority. Going through school Veta had been

good as a writer and was in an adult poetry class. This would explain industry. I thought that Thomas was more of on the inferiority side but it was not shown. Veta had put faith more in her teacher than in her parents and he was influencing and helping her. The advice she was receiving was good from him after Thomas had died.
Her father was experiencing another stage in Erikson's theory. He was going through stage seven. Generativity versus stagnation on page 115. He had begun to care about himself and not being old and alone. He did a good decision by marring Shelly and starting a new life with her. He also cared about his daughter and wanted her to be okay. They argued in the movie but he was there for her and consoled her after Thomas had died. He was not stagnant. He had a family, job and security that an older man would want at that stage of life.
The movie was good and related to things were discussed in the first three chapters. There were many different feelings expressed in this movie. Dealt with young as well as older people and the problems that life throw.