“MY LIFE”
In the movie “My Life” the protagonist Robert “Bob” Jones, has learned that he has cancer in his kidneys and that since the cancer has spread, he will die. Throughout the movie the viewers can experience the five different stages of grief that human beings go through. The process usually begins with denial, then anger, followed by bargaining, then depression, and finally acceptance.
From the very beginning, we meet Bob Jones and he told us that he has terminal cancer. However, he keeps telling others that he is going to make it, even telling his wife that he has an over a hundred percent chance of surviving. He keeps denying that he is most likely going to die. But we can see that even though he says he’ll fight and win, we watch him put together a video for his future son so that he can watch and listen to his father and get to know who he was. Deep down inside he always knew that he wasn’t going to survive, he just didn’t want to give up hope yet.
When his doctors take him off treatment, we watch Bob become so angry. He yells at his doctors for not trying and giving up on him saying, “This is all I have!” He could be referring to the fact that he only has a few months to live or he could be referring to the fact that they just dashed his hopes of ever getting better. Hope was all he had and now that has been taken away. Throughout the movie he continues to experience anger, such as when he can’t climb the stairs anymore, the fact that he can no longer do such a simple task angers him as well as saddens him. Another moment where he feels anger is when he goes to the Chinese healer for the first time, he doesn’t feel that the man is helping and calls him a fraud.
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An important scene in the film is when he asks God by meaning of a star, to give him enough time to see his son’s birth. The scene is reminiscent of the beginning of the movie where as a little boy he asks for a real circus to be in his backyard. He is bargaining for time that the doctors say he doesn’t have. He does live to see Brian being born and is grateful for the extended time that he has been given. When he was at the theme park and came back from the roller coaster ride he holds his wife and tells her “Today is D-day.” That day was the day that he should have been dead. From this moment he knows that he will meet his son and he works harder than ever to prepare the videos for his son to enjoy and learn from.
Depression swirls around the entire movie. Bob is constantly plagued by thoughts of him dying and is troubled and somewhat fearful for what lays ahead of him. His nightmares are evidence that death is lingering in his head and looks at the future bleakly. When he visits his family in Detroit for his brother’s wedding, we can feel his heaviness of heart when his family continues to argue. When he leaves for Los Angeles, he tells his wife, Gale, “I failed.” He didn’t resolve the rift between him and his family and he had to sit down on his suitcase in sadness.
The final stage that he goes through is acceptance. He now knows that he is dying, but instead of trying to fight it back as he did before he lets it come. He finally tells his family of his disease and asks them to come down to see him before he passes on. He takes the advice of the Chinese healer to “Put [his] House in order.”, and makes peace with his father, by telling him, “I love you, Dad.” To which his father responds, “I love you too.” He tells his family that they did nothing wrong in raising him and that the one who is responsible for the rift between them was himself. He visits his son in his room and has a little talk with his infant son about how he shouldn’t be angry that his father died and that even though he didn’t want to die, he knew it was happening and accepts it. Once Bob had passed on, we see him riding a roller coaster to the light that he kept seeing in his healing sessions with the Chinese man. Though he had always been afraid of roller coasters and when he went to the theme park with his wife, he refused to let go of the handle bar in fear, he now raised his hands in the air finally relinquishing his hold on life and going on to the light.
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The five stages of death are all concluded with his act of letting go of the roller coaster and raising his arms in the air. In wondering why acceptance was usually last in experiencing grief, I supposed that it was because when you are so close to dying as Bob was, you come to see yourself as only a visitor on earth instead of a permanent inhabitant. The veil between life and death becomes sheerer and sheerer until it doesn’t feel like dying, but rather going on to another life. While on Earth you watch everyone and see that they aren’t experiencing what you are. You feel almost lonely since no one is like you, and you realize that you have more in common with the dead that have passed on then those that are living, because the dead have experience dying. At this point you come to accept that death is only the beginning of a greater and more lasting journey.
