Non verbal communication
February 11, 2008
To commence the long Chinese new year weekend, my cousins and I decided to go out and watch the movie 27 dresses. As my cousin just got married recently, we thought that it would be a perfect movie to watch. While watching it, I realised that the director applied many communications theories throughout the movie.
The scene that stood out to me was the one when the main actress is staring at her boss and the man who loves her notices it and can tell that she has a crush on her boss.What actually makes the scene so great is that nobody says anything but yet through the use to non verbal action the feeling that she is in love with her boss comes out.The director made use of oculesics. It is the way that she looks at her boss that told the other man about her hidden feelings. The way that she stared at him. Also the use of paralinguistics aid in bringing about this idea, the way that the actress laughs gives away the feeling she has for her boss.
Many a times we do not realise that what we learn can be applied to so many different context. For example since we are talking about non verbal communication, deaf people communicate to one another through their hands,kinesics and through their eyes, oculesics. Similarily when we see people on the streets, we can sometimes form opinions about them like for example, if we see a couple holding hands, we know that they are dating or married. When we see a lady ignoring the man talking to her, we know that they are having an arguement. Therefore,there are many instances where people do not have to say anything to get the intended message across.
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yanyirocks | February 14, 2008 at 1:22 pm
preeky! Yanyi here. So does the boss know that she likes him? I didn’t watch this movie, so can you tell me? Why is that that man was able to see from her eyes, that she likes the boss but not the boss himself? Is it because a person only notices little actions made by someone they like? That means the boss doesn’t like her? Am i answering my own question? Oh.
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alena2008 | February 14, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Ohh my god. You have watch all the movie? In my opinion it was horrible, and nothing can safe it.
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Shamini | February 18, 2008 at 4:46 am
heyyyyyy
the reviews were 27 dresses jus said that it was a chick flick? do you agree ?
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evangeline87gan | February 18, 2008 at 5:23 am
Indeed we have gained more awareness to the things we have taken for granted in this communication module.
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gurpreetkaur | February 18, 2008 at 11:14 am
Hey sham…yes it was a chick flick, it had all the elements of one… boy and girl meet…have problems …but eventually end up together