Grace Is Gone (2007)

How sweet is this? 

What do you do when u lost the one you love the most with all your heart? In this movie, Stanley Phillips (John Cusack) heard the unfortunate news that his wife died while serving for his country in the army. Using the Kübler-Ross five stages of grief model to explain Stanley situation is where he displays every part of it. In the picture, he will denial, anger, bargaining, depression and lastly accept as what is the reality. 

1. Denial 

Stanley denied that his wife is dead when the army forces came to give their respect to the                   family. He denied and did not want to address the matter when his daughters came back. He brings his daughters to arcade and eat some food to maybe tell them what had happened. Eventually, he cannot take it and decided to bring their daughters to a spontaneous trip to Enchanted Garden. 

2. Anger 

Stanley was super duper angry when he heard that his brother, John mention that his wife died and why he did not mention to his daughter. Stanley pushes his brother to a wall fiercely and angrily as he cannot accept the fact that his wife died. He also dare not to express his anger to his daughter and thus allow them to do what they want such as wear a earring.

3. Depression 

He is ultimately sad that his wife is not there with them when they decided to go to                             Enchanted Garden. He will call back home and imagine that his wife is there and                                 express it out. Stanley was hoping that his wife might somehow call back him and talk to him. There was a time he did not want to go out and wanted to cry out loud in his brother place. He cried and sleep alone to avoid the pain and suffer. 

4.  Bargaining 

He did his very best and try to control his anger and management. He bargain most of the time with his oldest daughter. He did not scold his daughter even though she smokes at such small age. He even brought up to smoke with his daughter and try something new. He thinks that this way he probably will be less sad as he still got his daughter on his back. 

5. Acceptance 

However, after spending a day with their daughter, he finally bring them beside a beach and told them the unfortunate news. The oldest daughter was unable to accept it, but with the love from his father, she accept it. At the end, they hug one another. 

In the whole movie, I realize that the father and daughter always each others hands no matter where they go and walk. This touches me as the feeling of love with father and daughter is strong than ever. As I had never lose a close one before, except I was small I lose my grandparents. My grandma and I was close once as she would take care of me. It is a waste that she passed away early and I was still small. I jealous those that have grandparents and still able to have such good relationship such as cook plenty of nice food, siblings or cousin getting together. This relationship warms me and realize that family love creates a lovely and warm atmosphere to people like me. 

Smile and keeps sadness away!