Nell was a movie that Jodie Foster played perfectly. She made the audience thinkĀ
about our own upbringing, our own trials and difficulties, and our struggles to fit in. Jerry and Nell had a wonderful chemistry that women especially can adhere to, as the question of nature vs. nurture prevails.
Nell's mother, who died at the beginning of the movie, raised Nell and her sister in a secluded cabin in the woods of a rural town. Her mom had a very skewed sense of the world, which made her retreat. The only beliefs the children grew up on were the horrible stories of the outside world, and the strong morals from the bible.
Nell used three very prominent verbal communication codes in her life: semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic. Jerry and Paula had to "decode" these codes in order to understand what she was saying.
The book says that Semantics refer to the meaning behind a word, and their primary and connotative meanings. One great example from the movie was how Nell called Jerry her......
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