The Movie Psychology

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1. The main theme of the movie is that you don’t need material goods to experience true happiness. Some people buy material goods because they feel that they need it to complete their life. Buying things will only give you temporary happiness but making relationships with others and knowing yourself will give you permanent happiness.

In the movie, we see people constantly buying goods from TV because they think they need it. The movie shows that what these people need are relationships with those around them. At first, Ricky only cared about making money and he eventually gets a promotion for bringing G to the show. Bringing G to the show led to Kate leaving him and G becoming unhappy. He realizes that he needs these relationships in order to be happy instead of the money and lets G go.

2. The infomercials
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Rick Hayman’s missing human relationships that he feels a true connection with. He was surrounded by people who only care about getting money but when he meets Kate and G, they make him a better person. Not only is he missing true happiness, he also needs to realize what people need to be happy.

4. I would describe G as a wise spiritual person. He had many stories with important messages like the starfish story. He’s very caring as well because he always has Rick’s best interests at heart. He also didn’t say anything when that woman was claiming he was her husband who left her probably because he believed that she was doing it for a reason and didn’t want to hurt her. He is also an honest person and didn’t want to lie to the people watching the infomercials. The people watching also valued his honesty and this is what made people like him.

5. This movie incorporates the Golden Rules. When G was talking about the starfish story in which the girl threw the starfishes back in the ocean because she knew it would make a difference to one of them. She empathized with the starfishes and felt that she would wanted to be treated the same if that was

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