CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
A. Background of Study
Films are cultural artifacts, created by specific cultures that reflect those cultures, and in turn, affect them. Film also begins from a scenario. Film relates
with literature, because, literature is a creative activity of an art. Film itself has many explanations. It depends upon from point of view of
someone. Film is an artwork for the film lovers, such as the combination of moving picture. Film, as a product of director’s minds, indirectly can influences to
the audiences about what they imagine from the film they watched. For the directors, film is something that they have to visualize, as a description of a story,
based on a certain idea, or has adaptation from a short story, a true story, drama’s manuscript, and novel.
There are many films that can be analyzed by psychological approach, but in this opportunity the writer is going to analyze a film entitled “Joshua”. The
film shows the personality deviation on main character behaviors and actions. Joshua was a psychological thriller film about an affluent young Manhattan
family. The movie centers on the lives of Brad and Abby Cairn. They were living in a nice apartment with their son, Joshua, and a Brad’s lovely dog. Brad was a
Christian affluent young who worked as a stockbroker. His wife, Abby, was a
Jewish housewife. She was also a temperamental and obstinate mother. She had a nervous breakdown that made her easy to be hysterical and depression. She
consumed the depression medicines everyday with high dose to treat her illness. She did not give any belief for everyone to caring her children although to her
mother-in-law, Hazel. So that, she often fought about care the children with Hazel, especially about religious.
Joshua was a frighteningly high intelligent child for such a degree that he thought and acted decades ahead of his age. He liked reading the science books,
and playing piano. He always wore in formal cloth and demonstrating unlimited brilliance as a pianist. He often played piano together with his uncle. Joshua
considered his gay uncle as his close friend. Firstly, Joshua was a nice child. But he was going to change after his little sister birth, Lily, particularly when Abby
brought Lily home from the hospital and unwisely alienate him. He became a quite child, full of charming, and often gave a lot of odd questions to his parents.
He became closer with his uncle, but distanced himself from his immediate kin. As the day passed, one at the time, the mood at the house regressed from healthy
and happiness became strange, unsettled, and disorienting, meanwhile, the bizarre events transpired. When the Lily’s whines drove Abby who already strained to the
point of nervous breakdown, Joshua devolved from eccentric to downright abnormal behavior. He started to make a game and planned to eliminate his
family. Eventually, family members also began to suffer tragic fates. Lily’s born had changed Joshua’s personality. His goal to live together
with his uncle, Ned, had made him became more aggressive to hurt his family and
relatives. He mixed his intelligent to purpose his goal and created some tricks to hurt them.
Based on the statement above, the writer is interested in analyzing about the psychological aspect that happened to the personality of Joshua. Such as Bully
and Tyrannize, but the writer will give the further analysis about it in chapter three
B. Focus of the Research
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