It's about Toula Partokola, a greek girl, comes from a greek family (off course!). Her father always told her to get married soon coz she started to look old and In Greek culture nice Greek girls are supposed to do three things in life:
1. Marry Greek Guys
2. Make Greek Babies
3. Feed everyone until the day they die....
Sometimes Toula feel uncomfortable with her big family, where they are loud and always in each other business all the time. They insist Toula to get married soon, because Greek girl should marry in a young age. While Toula perfect younger sister has married young and become a baby breeding machine, Toula who was 30 years old that time still single, hopeless, and always wished that she could prettier, braver, and so on...
My favourite character here is Toula father, Mr Gus Partokalus, who is really proud of being Greek, and believed in a two only things in this:
1. That Greek should educate non Greek about being Greek
2. And any ailment, from psoriasis to poison ivy could be cured with windex. He came up with this conclution, when one day he got his toe as big as his head because of wound , then he sprayed it with windex, the next morning, its size become normal again!
Windex Works!: Mr. Portokalos Best Friend
The problem arouse when Toula met a guy and started fall in love with him. But the problem is He is not a Greek!
For the first time Gus Patrokolus didn't agree with Toula and Ian marriage. He wanted Toula marry with a Greek Man! Gus thought that Ian is a xeno with a dry toast family. He said to his wife, "Do you think that Foula will happy to marry a xeno man, with a dry toast family? They are dry, just dry, without jam, without honey, without anything!"
One of my favourite scene was when Mr. Portokalus speech in Toula's wedding. For me this speech was seemed to be funny but also sweet at the same time was...
I was thinking about this yesterday, a night before my daughter's marriage. The root of the word Miller (Ian Surname) is a Greek word!
Miller come from the Greek word Milo which means Apple.
While our family name Portokalos as we know together, come from the Greek word Portokali means Orange. So, here we have Apple and Orange. We all very different but in the end we all fruit!
Hmmm,, relate it with Critical Thinking,,, here are my analysis:
1. When Foula's father ask Foula to ge married soon because of In Greek culture nice Greek girls are supposed to do three things in life: Marry Greek Guy, Make Greek Babie, and Feed everyone until the day they die....
It's Fallacy Ad Populum appeal to tradition.
Mr. Portukalos attempts to persuade Toula to get married soon because it is supposed to be consistent with the Greek traditions and customs in the society and family.
2.Toula perfect younger sister has married young and become a baby breeding machine
Methapore which is a part of sentance that creates a comperative image in the audience mind, without using comparative qualifiers. Here, Toula compare her sister with Baby Breeding Mechine.
3. Any ailment, from psoriasis to poison ivy could be cured with windex
Mr. Portokalos conclude that windex could cure any illment is Bad Argument. The premises could be true, that he spray his wounded and the next morning it cured, but he came up with wrong conclusion, because the reason why the wound was cured was not windex! Means Mr. Portokalos used Post Hoc Fallacy.
4. "Do you think that Toula will happy to marry a xeno man, with a dry toast family?" They are dry, just dry, without jam, without honey, without anything!"This is Leading Question, where his question is worded in a way that will "guide" her wife making his or her question response that Toula would not be happy if she maaried with that man.
5. Mr. Portokalos speech is red a herring fallacy.
Mr. Portokalos tries to sidetrack his audience by raising an irrelevant issue ( "We all Fruits!") and then claims that the original issue (They are different in Many things like culture and religion) has been settles by the irrelevant diversion.
Anyway, even that was red herring fallacy i still love that scene!
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