This Final Paper aims to talk about the aesthetic, historical, socio-economic and cultural issues in society by using inner senses and memento to support my ideas

In the movie, inner senses show the cultural issue of Self Fulfilling Prophecy (Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in Psychology: 10 Examples and Definition (+PDF), 2018)which mean a person who believes or anticipation that an individual holds about a future event that manifests because the individual holds it.

People who have Self Fulfilling Prophecy is doing some activities that make others or their own believe it is already true. (Kaufman, 2012). The self-fulfilling prophecy can be fake by our self it is the aim make everybody believe it is true and the creator wanted everybody to tell him or her what was said by the creator is correct. Sample speaking is we tell lies and we wanted others to trust is it true, however, we understand it is fake by our self and we still believe what we create is true. In the movie’s inner sense the main actress claim to see a ghost which makes everyone and her own believe it is true. The main actor of the movie memento self-fulfilling about his wife’s death by telling everyone his wife is dying because someone rapes his wife. Self-fulfilling would be beneficial or disadvantages to our life it depends on how we use the self-fulfilling. For example, people will try to make themselves become attractive to others and it can give us confidence and achieve self-fulfilling, which self-fulfilling can make people become confident and to be happy it will be positive self- fulfilling. Negative self-fulfilling will be harmful to our mental health, because we will use self-fulfilling to create what we want others to believe is normally something that we wanted to forget, however, we could not forget, as a result, we want others to help us to face the truth. It is very different to control what we think with this condition and those memories will be repeated over and over and cannot solve, so self-fulfilling is harmful to people’s mental and physical health for example insomnia, no appetite. Insomnia is very common in society, According to the data, there are no country people, who have a mean of 8 hours sleep. (Club, n.d.) it is not easy to know whether we have self-fulfilling or not, however, Insomnia is very common in society for different reasons for example meeting deadlines and cannot forgetting something, just like the inner senses the main actress cannot forget the painful memories about her parent’s device and abode her.

Besides self-fulfilling, the subconscious is another important cultural issue in movies and society. Subconscious means the areas of consciousness that is not present in the focal of our awareness. everyone have their subconscious and subconscious sometimes appear in our dream it will make us remember those memories we do not want to remember or the happy memories before, and it will be repeated. Two movie inner senses and memento teach us the importance of accepting what it is, let go of the past and having faith in the future. If we cannot make it the memories will be like a reincarnation.

The aesthetic in inner senses which is the director show the beauty and dark of love, the main actor and actress cannot forget their first. The director uses flashbacks and montages to show the first love memories of the main actor and actress. It would let the audience having resonated, the reason that first love is beautiful is that it is pure and it is not contaminated love, first love is like a fairytale. (Model, 2014) the love and hate relationship shown in the inner senses is perfect because the film reflects reality, there are many studies about why people cannot forget first love no matter how many years afterwards. (Why you can never forget your first love, according to science, 2016) The reason that first love is unforgettable is that at that time we do not know how to love a person.

In the movie inner senses, the main issue is about mental illness and the ghost, in the historical part I will talk about mental illness and ghost history

Mentally illness means the health conditions including emotional change behavior effect the normal life of a person including the ability to social working and their family relationship. (Parekh, 2018)

In the inner sense, the main actress and actor both have mental illness problems, the main actress self-fulling to see ghosts, because she wanted to get attention from others and find people to help her to get out of the painful memories and the main actor cannot forget his girlfriend, as a result, his girlfriend is inside his subconscious. In society, the number of mentally ill patients is continuously increasing according to the data number of new mentally ill patients from the years 2012 forty-seven thousand two hundred increased to the years 2016 forty-eight thousand eight hundred patients. (Council, 2017) According to a government report, there is 60 per cent of people in Hong Kong feel they have high stress and 50% of people feel they have poor stress management 18% of people need to have physical treatment. From the data, we can know how much stress Hong Kong people have. According to the World Happiness Report, it shows that Hong Kong is ranking in the 76^th United Nations’ annual world happiness report of a total of 155 countries compare with years 2017 decrease five-place, the ranking is just higher than Portugal. (Lai, 2018). The movie’s inner senses reflect the real-life situation that the people have a mental illness they will not say that they have mental illness problems.  The main actress of Inner senses shows us people will have Illusion. The main actress of inner sense claim to see ghosts, however, the audience is fake and it is very hard getting out of the painful memories and dilemma as a result of the movie inner senses and memento tell us the importance of other people’s help.

The social-economic shows in the movie inner senses, there are still quite a lot of people who discriminate the mental illness patient. According to the report by the Legislative Council and the Equal Opportunities Commission in Hong Kong, every five people there will be a person having a mental illness problem. Normally people who have mental illness will wait for two years and go accept to receive treatment. (Commission, 2012) The biggest problem for mental illness people is social labelling, most people think that mental illness people are strange. According to the report there, a survey find out that there was 30% of mental illness people do not have a job. (Commission, 2012) and 41% of interviewees think that colleagues do not want to work with mental illness patients because of the safety problem. (Commission, 2012) The movie’s inner senses and memento get attention of the audience to think about their mental health and the movie can recall the memories of love and how it would distort people’s mental health if we do not handle well our love relationship with others. We can still find that there are a lot of labelling in society.

For the economy in society, according to the EMBO report, it shows in Europe more than 50% of people in Europe have high-income levels which suffer from one or more than one mental illness. (Medicine, 2016) Metal illness problem is not just a small group of people, mental health is largely in the society if people do not have good mental health, and they will not be healthy in both mental and physical health. Mental illness is not easy to get back into society and find a job, it will be harmful to the socioeconomic. According to the data shows that there is around thirteen thousand Hong Kong people having mental illness problems, 44% of those people are unemployed (中年精神康復者近半失業 44％活在貧窮線下 社聯促增就業支援 – 20160218 – 港聞 – 每日明報 – 明報新聞網, 2016). Therefore we can understand the severity of mental illness toward induvial and the effect on society’s economy.                 

To sum up the movie inner Sensors and memento show us the power of love, love and memories can be painful. However, love can also give people the courage to face the difficulties of the past just like kissing goodbye to the past, if we want to find true love we need to have the courage to forget and forgive the past. The movie reminds the audience to take care about our mental health and the movie telling the audience the true and false e is very confusing and what we see may not be the truth. The movie inner Sensors and memento is not just about mental health, it also teaches the audience how, to be honest to ourselves, no matter what happens in the past life must go on.   

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