Patrilineal Problem Solving: Can-Do Courage, Clock Towers, and Taking the Past Out of the Present
Back to the Future by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale In Act 1, we meet Marty McFly – spunky, rebellious, energetic, and decidedly troublemaking. We see the contrast between what he aspires to be (a big-time Rockstar), and what he’s afraid he’s cursed to become (the “zero” he believes his dad, George, to be). Jennifer, his girlfriend, offers him her therapist’s insight that one’s anxieties are often a direct result of parental influence in childhood; he replies “in that case you