Harvey the movie essays

Harvey the movie essays The movie that we saw the last week was a film that is hearted as a comedy but if you see it closely it is very clear that is about a serious social commentary of that time, and also of the present time because the same prejudices still exist today. Harvey is a pooka, a bad spirit that manifest itself as a six foot white rabbit. Only Elwood P. Dowd can see Harvey and it is from this that the underlying dark story of an alcoholics friendship with and invisible spirit blends itself in to comic fantasy. The friendship between Elwood P. Dowd and Harvey is implied in the way that Dowd carries an extra coat and hat for Harvey, in the way that he opens doors and lets him walk through and reads to him. The only exception is that Harvey is an imaginary friend but it seems to be like an ideal friendship. When Dowd tells nurse Kelly about how he spends his days in bars, or when he promises his sister that he will go to the western slope water Board to apply, he always includes his friend, saying Harvey and I... Also several times in the play, he phones places looking for Harvey when he was not around. We saw in the movie that this relationship is the most important thing in Dowds life, and that, like the best friendships, Elwood P. Dowd enjoys being with his friend Harvey. This could be one of the themes of the movie, THE FRIENDSHIP. In my personal opinion I thing that perhaps Elwood P. Dowd created Harvey because he felt lonely and that no one really cared to give attention to Elwood. Psychologist also believe that a child who creates an imaginary friend is because they dont have a friend that is physically present for them so the child creates a friend in his mind that no one else can see but himself. The need of having someone there to support you and help you through the good and the bad moments is more than essential; no one should be repressed of having someone else to depend upon. Family membe...