Family Exposed In The Film The Ice Storm

A common habit of humans is to isolate us in our own boxes. To focus on our own charisma and how oth-ers sees us. This behavior is represented in the movie “The Ice Storm” from 1997. The parents are very good at barricading their children out of their lives, to maintain the perfect life they think they are living. They just let all the bad stuff pass through and ignore it. They therefore have a very naïve and fake way of looking at life. They children is therefore trying to break down the barrier with a lot of challenging behav-ior.
One of the main characters, Paul, describes a family as your own personal antimatter, which is a physics concept, that describes a matter build in exactly the same structure, but contain the complete opposite atoms. They therefore seem as the same from the outside, but when you get to know them, you’ll figure that they aren’t. Another point of the antimatter is the fact that, they are very dangerous towards each other. So, the family may live together and take care of each other, but the more power they have, the more harm they can do to each other - without even knowing it.
The families lives in a suburb with a very typical suburban environment. The suburb is called New Canaan. A reference to an land described in the Hebrew Bible. It also goes under the name “The Promised land”, which is this amazing paradise, where it floats with milk and honey. This land is a place many Hebrews strive to achieve, and is described as per-fect. New Canaan is therefore named after the perfect land. A place where nothing bad exist. Just as the parents in the movie are pretending their lives are. But they also know that there are no excitement and that it may get kind of boring sometimes. That’s why we witness them trying to “spice up” their relation-ships or marriages. So it might not be as perfect as they want it to