Negative Expectations and the film While You Were Sleeping
Negative Expectations and the film While You Were Sleeping Everyday people feel the effects of other's and society imposed ways to act or perform in daily actives. These imposed way are called expectations. Expectations can help people live up to there potential, act politely, finish projects, spend more time with family, and many other things that yield a positive outcome. Unfortunately, expectations are not always positive. Often these imposed expectations lead individuals into unhealthy stereotypes, sexism, sudden career choices, nonproductive relationships, little self-esteem and many other adverse results. The film While You Were Sleeping displays how one self, traditions, societies and others expectations can all intertwine and become a maze of lies, false hope, self-fulfilling prophecies and confusion. The film takes place in Chicago during the early nineties. Lucy Eleanor Moderatz is a lonely, single, Thirty year old orphan who works at the el-train taking fares. Everyday she "sits in a booth like a veal (While You Were Sleeping)" and watches the commuters come and go. She soon falls in love with a commuter that she has never talked to. Peter Callaghan is a stereotypically arrogant businessman who everyone
Throughout the movie, she asks her co-workers for help. Lucy is swept away by the idea and the acceptance of the family and does not reveal that she is not the real fiancee, who happiness to be away in Paris on business. This expectation of failure leads her not to attempt an encounter with Peter. Traditions are so firmly held by people because they give order and an air of familiarity (Cameron 58). Lucy saves Peter from the train and he is taken to the hospital in a coma. Society plays a part in the expectations put upon people as well. The standard is so stringent that no one can fully live up to it. Pygmalion Grows Up: Studies in the Expectation Communication Process. Sam's expectations of others caused lies and hardship and could have yielded a marriage between to people that never knew or even loved each other. All this so a family can feel better for a brief time before the truth is eventually found out. If people are not at the least attentive in mass/church, they are not able to grow in their understanding of God and his ways. His reasoning is that the family would be hurt severely by the truth so Lucy must not tell anyone what really happened.
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