Peter Helfgott, a dominant, selfish, feared father, plays a major role in the narrative of the feature film Shine directed by Scott Hicks. Hicks has attempted to encourage a negative response from viewers, provoking them to strongly disagree with the drastic and harsh actions he partakes in.

Shine relates the story of a child prodigy, David Helfgott, an interpretative genius who is promised a brilliant career, but sadly suffers a devastating breakdown on the peak of his international success. The heart breaking destruction of this career is dominantly due to his father's terrible and unfair treatment of his son. Peter dominates David's choices and way of life, by aggressively blackmailing him in his own personal stubborn ways. To highlight Peter's negative ways Hicks uses many types of film codes to depict Peter as a feared monster. Low camera angles are constantly used whenever Peter and David are on-screen...