An Analysis of The Movie Things to Come from the Perspective of Reality Therapy

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the film Things to Come, directed by Mia Hansen-Love, through the basic concepts of Reality Therapy. The behaviors of the main characters in the study were evaluated through the basic concepts of Reality Therapy and the scenes were analyzed in the context of Reality Therapy by sharing dialogues from the scenes thought to be related to these concepts. Descriptive analysis method and document analysis technique, one of the qualitative research methods, were used. Today, movies, proverbs, idioms and song lyrics can be used as a therapeutic instrument in the field of psychology. In this sense, it is aimed to present Reality Therapy from a different perspective by associating the movie as a therapeutic element with the basic concepts of Reality Therapy. Using movies in the field of psychology and analyzing them in the context of theories can provide great benefits to prospective psychologists and psychological counselors, especially during their undergraduate education. It may be useful to gain different perspectives, to make film analyses within the framework of different theories, to make use of movies that have a therapeutic effect related to the experiences of the counselees in the teaching of psychological counseling and personality theories courses at universities in addition to traditional methods, in order to better learn and internalize the theories. It can be concluded that the film supports the theoretical knowledge of Reality Therapy and is appropriate in terms of its emphasis on the basic concepts.

Keywords

• reality therapy
• cinema
• psychology