Katie Holmes as a Scapegoat
I watched "Pieces of April" last night, starring Katie Holmes as April. The film does an excellent job of demonstrating how a family scapegoats one of its members, and how that person plays into the role.
April is the family scapegoat. She dates drug dealers, lives in a ghetto apartment in New York and comes home to visit with new piercings and tattoos – all of which make her a target of her mother's constant criticism. Her mother demonstrates why the family needs a scapegoat. She is very hypercritical and intolerant and in real life I would suspect that her family of origin was just as hypercritical and intolerant. In a family that looks for every flaw, it's best to have their attentions focused on someone else. Hence the scapegoat is created, subconsciously, to absord all that negative energy. April's sister plays the perfect Hero to April's Scapegoat and her brother is the Missing or Lost Child. If you're interested in seeing a film about family roles, give this one a viewing and let me know what you think.
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