This study points out the depression disorder as experienced by Nicholas in
The Son (2022) movie that caused by his parents’ divorce and lead him to end his
life in his young age. This study used the theory by Aaron Temkin Beck and Brad
A Alford in their book entitled Depression: Causes and Treatment to discover the
symptoms of depression with the theory of Depression by Judith and Peacock to
find the cause also the impact of depression in Nicholas’s life.
This study applied descriptive qualitative research to analyze the collected
data from dialogues, monologues, and narratives in the movie script along with
secondary data from journals, e book, e journal, book, theses, and articles related to
this research. In data collecting, the researcher used several steps, for instance
watching the movie, reading the movie script, identifying the data, classifying the
data, and reducing the collected data from the movie.
Based on the results of the study, the researcher found three points. First,
Nicholas in the movie The Son (2022) experiences four symptoms of depression
that consist of emotional manifestation (dejected mood, negative feeling toward
self, and reduction in gratification), the second symptom is cognitive manifestation
(negative expectation), motivational manifestation (suicidal wishes), and the last is
vegetative and physical manifestation (lost appetite). Second, the data found in this
movie related to the cause of Nicholas’s depression is emotional shock because of
his parents’ divorce. Last, the data found in this movie related to the impact of
depression in Nicholas’s life are trouble in concentration, trouble in sleeping, and
thought of death.
Keyword: depression, symptom of depression, cause of depression, impact of
depression.