Film analysis - Movie Review Example

Sideways and How This Movie Demonstrates the Social Psychological Principle of Social Perception Social perception is a social psychological principle, and this is how we understand others. This includes the kinds of impression that we have of others, and includes how we read people, deciding why people act as they do, and how we view our social world. Impressions is a part of this, and this is how people read others. In this case, there is a scene where Miles clearly is not reading Maya very well.

He assumed that she was not interested in him, and he also assumed that she was married, neither of which was true. This might be attributed to a negative schema that Miles has created for himself – he has assumed that any woman, especially an attractive woman, would not be interested in him, because he sees himself as a failure. His schema may come from the fact that he was left by his wife, and his wife was set to marry a more successful man. Therefore, Miles assumes that, in a social situation involving a woman, a woman will not be interested in him, because his set schema would tell him that this is true. . Miles soon knew that she was not married, therefore she could be interested in him, and she invited him out, and got close to him, and wanted him to kiss her, yet he did not.

He would accept information that would fit into his schema, which was that she was not interested in him, and would reject information that would not fit into his schema, which would be her actions showing that she was interested in him. Therefore, if there was anything that Maya did which could possibly be interpreted that she was not interested in him, then Miles would take that small action and use it to confirm his schema. The opposite would be true for any actions that showed that she was interested in him.

When Maya did finally dump him, because he did not tell her about Jack’s engagement, this was confirmation that his original schema was correct, as this assimilated into his world view. However, by the end of the film, there was evidence that Miles have finally rejected his schema, as she called him and he immediately drove up to go to her house. Miles had finally rejected his own schema long enough to find love with Maya. Jack, on the other hand, appears to have an opposite schema regarding women.

He has organized cognitions regarding the behavior of women, and women apparently have fallen all over him in the past, probably because of his status as an actor. Therefore, Jack has confidence in his abilities to find a woman to have sex with, because woman have traditionally been easy for him. This is indeed the way it happens, as Steph fell into bed with him very easily, and Steph is an attractive, intelligent woman. The waitress was the same way, although the waitress was not attractive.

However, the waitress fawned