Monologue Analysis

I chose a monologue from the film "500 days of Summer" which is about a guy who falls for a girl who does not believe love exists. They have a roller-coaster of a relationship until Summer decides for them to just be friends and Tom falls into a state of depression. When he tries once more to make it work he fails miserably. 
In this scene Tom is at a meeting to talk present ideas on what to messages to put on greeting cards and after one of his colleagues presented he had this to say...

"These are lies. We're liars....think about it. Why do people buy these cards? It's not because they wanna say how they feel. People buy these cards because they can't say how they feel or they are afraid to. We provide the service that lets them off the hook. And you know what? I say the hell with it. I say let's level with America. At least let them speak with themselves. I mean, look at this. What does it say? Congratulations on the new baby. How about congratulations for your new baby, guess that's it for hanging out. Nice knowing ya buddy. Wait, what's this? Ooh... fancy!
Look at this one with all the hearts. Let's open it up. "Happy Valentine's Day, Sweetheart. I love you." Oh that's nice. This is exactly what I'm talking about? What does it even mean? Love. Do you know? Do you? Anybody? If somebody gave me this card, Mr Vance, I would eat it. It's the cards and the movies and the pop songs. They are to blame for all the lies and the heartache. We are responsible. I am responsible. I think we do a bad thing here. I mean, people should be able to say how they feel, how they really feel, not some words that some stranger puts in their mouth. Maybe it's not love at all. Maybe there's no such thing as love. Maybe it's... "galoogoo." Yeah I made it up, so what?!."

From the context of this scene, the language used should be of formal register as it is meant to be a company meeting to present ideas to your employer and other employees. However, due to Tom's outburst, the monologues is in an informal register because he uses words like "wanna" because it is a personal message that he feels like everyone should contemplate. Tom changes the connotations from being positive and thoughtful gestures that we use all the time to confusion and empty gestures that actually does not mean anything. Tom also uses the word "galoogoo" to replace love because he does not believe that it really exists. This in itself is interesting in terms of language because we get the connotations from "love" which are generic for all of us and the he uses this new, made up word. It makes us contemplate what other associated meanings there are to that one word and makes us question why it does make sense to use it to help our understanding with such a complex term, despite it being used all the time that it can lose all meaning. 


In Tom's monologue, he uses many pauses along with many rhetorical questions for the same effect such as "We're liars... think about it" and "What does it mean? Love". He uses them to get his colleagues to understand what he thinks which is that love really doesn't exist and it is people like them who created this idea of "love" for money and business. He is also quite passionate about this with his use of exclamation marks but more importantly what he is saying especially when he comes up with a new idea for what to write in a new baby card in a sarcastic way, he says "Congratulations for your new baby, guess that's it for hanging out. Nice knowing ya buddy." which is not what you would say in card but it could be a lingering thought that crosses your mind when writing one of these cards.