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The film describes the moral value of human being as they are created as a perfect creature among the others, and the film nicely captures it where an angel is
also willing to be human. I decided to have a deeper analysis to this idea that an angel is willing to be human instead of their immortality and perfection. In the
modest way the film explain how an angel is really happy when he could taste an apple and feel sad when something terrible happens.
If we compare it with nowadays condition where human is not satisfied with their life along with the perfection that comes with it. They are not thankful
anymore with the so many gifts given to them and lead into greediness. Then it would be normal if destruction and disasters happen almost every second of
human’s life for their own stupidity – forget about the fact that they are a perfect creature. I choose to analyze this movie because we can draw some lessons that
make us being able to appreciate and thank the gifts that are given to us. The inspiration of this study is basically on the unique theme of the movie
entitled City of Angel where an angel named Seth Plate wished to be a human after days of observing the life of human beings especially that of Maggie Rice. Seth
Plate decided to realize his wish to be human as the result of his falling in love with a human character Dr. Maggie Rice. Its awkward and unusual story is what
actually interests me.
1.2. REASON FOR CHOOSING THE TOPIC
Since human beings keeps changing and developing, either physically or psychologically, it is usually interesting to find out and discuss the changes. Even
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more so when the changes seems unusual and extraordinary, and that was my main concern why I chose to analyze this kind of topic.
The enjoyment of watching good movies lies on the tight plot strength of the story and how it is displayed in more than one hour without making us want to
leave the movie theatre or to switch the channel of television program. Analyzing it will be such a great experience in order to see deeper into what behind the story
, which supports the quality of the film in general. However, my analysis will not cover all aspects of the movie, I will especially focus on analyzing the main
character Seth Plate. Through these psychological approach, I will see the transformation from an angel’s point of view. I will try to see what reasons that
drive Seth to be human, even though they have been implicitly shown in the movie that he is falling in love with Maggie. It is what causes him to make an
unimaginable decision of being mortal, but detailed explanation and elaboration are needed to know if there are other impulses.
The other thing is, whether or not I could apply psychoanalysis approach, which is usually conducted upon human characters towards an angel. This step
will be effective on the scenes where Seth has not yet turned into human, even after he made contact with Maggie.
1.3. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEMS
The main problems of the study are: 1.
What does Seth Plate’s self transformation mean in view of Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis theory?
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2. What human values does Seth Plate’s transformation reveal related to Erich
Fromm’s notion on To Have and To Be and what its relation or relevance to Freud’s theory?
1.4. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The objectives of the study are stated as follows: 1.
To discuss the meaning of Seth Plate’s self transformation in point of view of Freud’s theory.
2. To find out and to discuss humanistic values revealed in the transformation
related to Freud’s and Fromm’s notion on the meaning of To Have and To
Be.
1.5. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
