Flight Movie Interpersonal Communication

I decided to watch and analyze the film titled “Flight” (2012) because it is a fitting example that shows how crucial and important communication can be in a life or death situation. This film also demonstrates many concepts and examples from our textbook, IPC3. Throughout this paper, I will discuss specific examples from the film and apply it to IPC3’s concepts (highlighted in bold) to demonstrate the knowledge from which I have acquired during this summer course. I will be discussing six different interpersonal communication areas in this paper, which are: close relationships, conflict, nonverbal communication, emotion, language, and listening.
The first area I will discuss is close relationships. In the beginning of the film, we become acquainted with a woman named “Nicole” as she meets up with her apparent drug dealer. Right of the bat, it is very noticeable Nicole is struggling with withdrawals and needs a fix. The dealer knows Nicole has no money but knows of other ways for her to pay him back in the future, therefore he gives her the drugs and some advice. This scenario relates to IPC3’s concept of a role relationship, “which is a
During their ascension into the sky, the ATC’s are a bit worried about the weather therefore they request a status update from the pilot. Whip tells the co-pilot they are “climbing”. The copilot then relays the message in complete detail to the ATC’s. This is known in our textbook as paraphrasing, or “restating the essence of a message in our own words” (IPC3 132). Often, paraphrasing is where a long message is shortened to make it more understandable. Although, in this case it is the opposite, the more information the ATC’s have from the pilot’s, the better off they will be, therefore the co-pilot provides all the information needed that Whip did not provide while he was focused on “keeping the bird in the