Emotion movie5/19/2023 ![]() Hence the sudden emotional outpour! Empathy is a sign of strengthĮmpathy is a key component of emotional intelligence.Įmotional intelligence is the ability to identify and regulate your own emotions and to understand and manage the emotions of others.Īccording to psychologist Daniel Goleman, empathy is one of five key emotional intelligence characteristics, along with self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation and social skills.Ĭrying in response to a movie reveals high empathy, social awareness and connection. Oxytocin is then associated with heightened feelings of empathy and compassion, further intensifying feelings of social connectedness and you pay even further attention to the social cues of the characters in the movie. Your attention is captured and emotions elicited by the movie’s story. So, although oxytocin may be targeted biologically at ensuring strong social bonds, it also serves to enhance emotional responses.Ĭrying in the movies is a sign that oxytocin has been triggered by the connections you feel due to vicarious social experience. It helps us to identify and attach with our essential caregivers and protective social groups.įour health benefits of hugs – and why they feel so goodĪccording to another neuroscientist, Robert Froemke, recent research shows oxytocin has an even broader impact and acts as a “volume dial”, amplifying brain activity related to whatever a person is currently experiencing. It is also released in response to positive physical contact – hugging, kissing, sexual intimacy and even petting animals – as well as through positive social interactions.Ĭonsequently, it has been called the “ love hormone”.Īs social animals, our survival depends on social bonding, and oxytocin is critical. ![]() Oxytocin is best known for its role in childbirth and breast feeding, increasing contractions during labour and stimulating the milk ducts. Neuroscientist Paul Zak has studied the effects of compelling stories, showing watching them can cause the release of oxytocin. The emotional power of some movies is especially captivating: they’re not called tearjerkers for nothing. Take a look.Some are based on true stories, and knowing this makes them even more potent. In any case, this is an above-average sci-fi flick. Cons are the Father, who seemed too weak to me, and the ending which doesn't do justice to what comes before. ![]() Where Bale is all complex, nuanced and charismatic, Reeves is just handsome wood) and the fight scenes are beautiful to look at. The actors were inferior and I'm sorry but Keanu Reeves just can't make it. Highly entertaining, the score was more than okay, the casting does a really good job (I liked The Matrix -although I prefer Equilibrium's sobriety and rhythm, which many may find boring-, but come on. He's too much in love with his work to become that. He's not your average mainstream star and he'll never be, I hope. ![]() But you realise after you watch him, every time you read the novel again HE IS Patrick Bateman), a LITERALLY starving and tormented loner (please see The Machinist if only for his PERFECT, ground-breaking work of art, which includes both his acting skills and his beyond-emaciated body), a hopeful gay teenager turned hopeless adult (Velvet Goldmine, where he's amazingly accurate in a minor -as length goes- role and you really believe he's a shy and lively teenager and minutes later you believe he's a weary, melancholy adult), a conflicted superhero (the best Batman by far, followed by Michael Keaton of course) and all sorts of middle-of-the-road characters. He's played a highly controversial psycho (in an admittedly light version of a really crude and insightful novel. Bale is the greatest actor of his generation and never afraid to get his hands REALLY dirty. He gets to transmit everything the story needs at the right time. His going from stone-cold to an emotional man is simply flawless. My review is one on Christian Bale rather than the movie per se.
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