"Say thank you Gilbert, say thank you." Gilbert does indeed have a lot to be
             thankful to Becky for. In Lasse Hallstrom's 'What's eating Gilbert Grape?' we see a
             range of production techniques used to show us just where and why Gilbert is thankful
             for and some of them are: the way Becky built up Gilbert's self esteem, made Gilbert feel
             that he could go anywhere and meliorate his relationship with his corpulent mother.
             When we first saw Gilbert we observed that Gilbert is a very demure person, the
             fact that he says nothing much about him when he is introducing his entire family
             members proves this. But as the movie progress and the interaction between Gilbert and
             Becky intensify, we see Gilbert as a new person, a person with much more self-esteem.
             The relationship he has with Becky is what brought Gilbert to be a more conceit person,
             as they were talking in one of the many scenes they have with each other, Becky asks
             him: "What do you want for yourself?" before Gilbert answers, he takes a while to think
             what he wants for himself and that is significant because Becky has made Gilbert
             contemplate something for himself instead of things for others. As Gilbert answered the
             question the camera angle changes, instead of a normal shoot of Gilbert the camera kind
             of focused in on Gilbert and looking down on him, the reason for this shot is probably to
             show that Gilbert is thinking carefully what to say. One of the most important scene
             that's in the film involving the two is the scene where the sun is setting and the two are
             talking, not only is the 'rose colored' sunset at the background an breath taking
             experience for both of them but this is the first time that we see Gilbert smiles and that's
             all thanks to Becky's simple pleasure in life.
             The reason this film is such a success is the way it repeat its impor...