Hitch

The movie that my group chose to do for the movie night project was Hitch. This is a movie about a guy named Alex Hitchens, better known as Hitch. His job is to help ordinary guys get a date with the women of their dreams and hopefully they will end up having a long-term relationship. Hitch eventually meets a Albert who is an accountant for Allegra Cole who is very well known celebrity. Eventually they go out and start to fall for one another. Hitch also meets Sarah. Sarah is a reporter and she seeks out the truth. Sarah finds out that Hitch is a "date doctor" and everything gets messed up. Conflict is a big part of this movie. There are many different types of conflict in this movie and in some parts of the movie there are multiple conflicts in one scene. Dealing with interpersonal conflict in this movie  could be handled in a more effective and efficient way.

In HCOM 214 we have learned may ways to deal with conflict. Some of the most effective ways that we have learned to be open and honest about what we are thinking and feeling. That we should come front the person or people that we are in conflict with. We shouldn't do this in an aggressive way but with enough force so the person will listen. These conflict resolution would have come in handy for the characters of this movie. One scene that I can think of is when Albert quits his job. He didn't mean to it just came out because he was finally standing up for himself and to his boss. He wanted to let those around him and Allegra that he was listening and more than what they thought of him.  He walks out horrified about what he had just done and was freaking out. Hitch also freaked out when Albert told him what was happening and they got into a little fight. Before the meeting they should have listened and talked to each other more about what the goals where and had more open communication.

One of the other major issues of this movie was miscommunication and keeping thoughts and feelings to themselves. As an audience we knew what the characters in the movie where thinking and how they felt. This is an issue because Hitch can't tell Sarah how he feels and he wasn't completely honest with her about his job of being a "date doctor". She eventually finds out and is very upset. In the scene where this all blows up is when Sarah goes with her friend to a speed-dating thing. Hitch is there to explain himself to Sarah but she will not listen. She puts up the same front that he did to her . What they should have done was be honest from the start, say what they where feeling and thinking and everything would have been fine. Without all this conflict in the movie, there would have been no movie. What I learned from this project is that we need to be open and honest with people. Say what we ate thinking and feeling, and making sure that we are getting out point across so there is little room for miscommunication.