Movie: On Golden Pond

On Golden Pond Cassandra Mclean Central Carolina Community College I would postulate to admit that this was my first time eer hearing of this movie until this assignment but once I saw it I absolutely fell in love with all the characters and the different dynamics of family. It begins with Norman and Ethel Thayer moving back to their lake house in Maine for the summer. Norman and Ethel have been married a long time and will be celebrating Normans eightieth birthday and welcoming back their daughter Chelsea and she brings along her boyfriend wand Ray and his teenage son Billy Ray Jr.Chelsea asked her parents can Billy jr stay with them while her and Billy go to Europe. When Billy and Chelsea return form Europe she discovers that her dad and Billy have the relationship that she always wanted and stubborn to confront him and deal with her emotions. Norman Thayer will be eighty years old his next birthday he is suffering from some health problems and have dementia where he is beginni ng to forget things like a photograph that he took years earlier and the road that he been on for years and this instant cant remember how to get there.Norman is in between late adulthood and very old age Eriksons nine stages of psychosocial development says that in late adulthood stage you take stock of your past and in old age you face new sense of self over weakness bodies and need of care. Norman is always talking about getting older and dying he has declining cognitive functioning and that makes him irritable and confused.