In the film John Q (2002), I thought there were many scenes that could be marked as ‘memorable’ such as when John Archibald shouts to Lt. Grimes the words “I am not going to bury my son, my son is going to bury me!” But another scene before that, that kept replaying in my head was when John and Denise Archibald were sitting across the table from Dr. Turner and Rebecca Payne to discuss the money needed for their son’s operation. I don’t know if this was the correct rhetorical appeal that was used but I thought that Payne was relying heavily on logos. She just kept belting out information on information to the Archibald’s expense barriers. It was probably out of her professional costume that required her to come off so strict but she seemed so cold to the fact that a little boy was about to die. This scene seemed important to me for it was where Michael's parents hit a roadblock to save his life because of the money factor. It wasn't even that a donor wasn't available, it was that he couldn't even begin to search for a donor until he had enough money. Money became a greater factor than the life of a human being.
[Sidenote: The scene that I am referring to. I'm not sure why the clip is titled "John Q clip 1987" but it's from the right movie so, there you go.]
[Sidenote: The scene that I am referring to. I'm not sure why the clip is titled "John Q clip 1987" but it's from the right movie so, there you go.]
Haha, thats the same scene that I picked too. To me, there was plenty of logos where there should have been pathos given to the parents from the doctors. I also agree with you in that it came down to being that money was more important than someone's life.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why, but I completely looked over logos when I was reflecting on this scene. I focused more on ethos and pathos, but there IS a lot of logos involved. It was a little upsetting to me how the hospital sees someone's life as having less value than money, it's interesting how you pointed that out.
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