Posted on Tuesday, December 15th, 2015 at 5:12 pm
Trista Mokienko
For my first artifact I showed a clip from the movie “This Is Where I Leave You.” The clip displays similarities that can be compared to the article, “Proper Families.” In the clip, the characters are all brought back to their home town for the loss of the families father. While there, it seems as though that the family is nothing but dysfunctional. Always fighting and arguing and disagreeing on family concerns and issues regarding the funeral. During this clip, the two brothers start to fight on the front lawn. They start such a big commotion that all the neighbors rush out to the lawn to see the commotion. To stop the fight, the mother and the mothers friend who was the house keeper for them when her husband passed away started to kiss in front of the entire neighborhood. The mother explained to the children that she had fallen in love with the house keeper and that she was now a lesbian. This caused the fighting to immediately stop. From that point in the movie the family seemed to get along and accept each other for who they all truly where. This relates to the article because it is describing a family that is not the “typical” family structure that society classifies as traditional. However, it proves that it doesn’t matter who is apart of your family or what it looks like. If your family works for you and the ones you love, that’s all that should matter.