Review Movie : I am Sam
I am Sam is an American family drama film released in
2001 as well as written and directed by Jessie Nelson. Tells about a father who suffered
mental retarded or mentally impaired named Sam.Sam is played by Sean Penn
fighting for custody of their children Lucy, played nicely by a little girl
aged young Dakota Fanning. The
film, also written by Kristine Johnson is successful the inspiration,
motivation and valuable lessons for anyone. Jessie
Nelson is a co-writer and producer famous for. Jessie Nelson began his career as a
filmmaker when he created a documentary My First Time, which led him to become
a directorbergengsi. Jessie was
married to a film maker also named Bryan Gordon and lives in Los Angeles with
their daughter Molly June Gordon. When
the script for this film was written, along with Jessie Nelson Kristine Johnson
conducted research on people who have mental retardation such as the character
"Sam" in this film. They
visited the LA nonprofit organization. This
is one reason why the film I am Sam duration of 2 hours is a success. Because they may study the case
carefully in advance.
This story begins with a baby girl in Sam's life which he named Lucy Diamond
Dawson inspired lyrics The Beatels. Sam
is a man who works at a Starbucks Coffee Caffe bearing mental retardation.Some
time after the baby was born, his mother left him for granted.With sincere
compassion with the ability to care for her baby she is.Shopping for baby gear,
wearing diapers, give milk and so do yourself.
Sam has a group of friends who are very good and always helped him in distress. This group consists of Robert, Ifty,
Brad, and Joe.Ifty played by actor Doug Hutchinson, her character in this film
has a serious attention deficit disorder that has a certain centering in
silence and chaos, (ADD) tend to be exaggerated in telling him something. Robert played by actor Stanley
DeSantis was very good at figures played an overprotective, paranoid fears or
excessive. It can be seen from
his guard, examine every behavior that other people do, Sam's lawyer Rita
suspects when interviewed, and examined all the activities in the courtroom. Meanwhile, Brad and Joe, actually
played by an actor with real mental defect, Joseph Rosenberg (mentally
retarded) and Brad Allan Silverman who has Down Syndrome. They have a habit Video Night every
Thursday night at Sam's house. Karaoke
every Friday Eating together at IHOP every Wednesday. That's a routine they do every week.
One night Lucy was crying uncontrollably and Sam did not know what to do. It was heard by his neighbors are
experiencing Annie "Agoraphobic" a condition where a person feels
excessive anxiety and panic, or maybe like fear in the crowd. Annie called Sam and asked him what he
did to her baby so that he cried like that. Annie
finally tells Sam took the baby to his house and gave an explanation of how to
feed the baby. That babies need
to eat one time per two hours. Annie
explains the way that Sam understands that by conditioning the time of the
event on television.
Lucy's
getting even bigger day when Sam worked her left Lucy to Annie. Lucy grew into a beautiful and smart
girl. Lucy has a capacity of
intelligence even more than Sam. He
has a genius of questions like why the moon followed her into the house, why
there is snow, why do people bald and so on. Sam
as a father with the limitations that he has answered sober suit what he
thought. Sam mentally retarded as
a father to care for, raise and educate his daughter being a daughter is smart,
full of great curiosity, and received all his father's lack of sincerity. He was educated by having every night
doing school work, reading and even he himself did not trouble to read what you
read Lucy's. If Lucy refuses to
read he would not be decisive as a father but he did not scold Lucy, he just
gave the reason that made her love him why he wanted her to do that.
As a father Sam take care of him with great affection from the heart.Sam always
read books that have been memorized, entitled "Green Egg and Ham by
Dr.Seuss". Character in the
book is also named Sam.
One day while buying school shoes Lucy because she will start school. Sam anya not alone with Lucy, but was
accompanied by his friends. They
all participate, choose shoes that fit together to Lucy.Here is found a funny
scene from the Sam's friends are also experiencing some kind of barrier. Brad offers Lucy two pink colored
shoes, one of which is equipped with lights if the Snap. Ifty is equally to give advice to
Lucy, she showed a complete pink colored shoes with a philosophy that's why
he's picked. Joe is also offered
with a calm expression highheel black shoes for the last dewasa.Yang Robert
paranoid face offers a shoe for dewasa.Akhirnya Lucy decide and choose their
own shoes she likes.
Here we
can see very caring to his friends Sam and Lucy.The climax of this scene is the
time of payment of shoes. Sam did
not have enough money for the price of the shoes. But his friends help each other by
donating money at their disposal in order to achieve price-friend of Sam
ditetapkan.Sahabat both in terms of emotional support, personnel and financial. Seeing this, the seller was moved, it
looks at all of her facial expressions show. They
went home with a balloon that they get from selling shoes.
Sam is a father figure who receives any child good behavior. He did not want to force perfection. Lucy looks at the first day of school
and make presentations to the class. Can
be distinguished by the father of Lucy's friends at school when her
presentation, her son wrong in doing a presentation, his father became angry
and punched her to look perfect. It
can affect the child's emotions so be good.
That Sam educate her daughter with great affection. Because Lucy is protecting his father,
he would not even read a book about why people are different. Lucy has the nature of the wise and
understanding, patience and great affection. Lucy
can control himself when Sam berserk when they eat together in restaurants
other than the usual places they visit. Sam
asked as they are commonly eaten foods at IHOP, but the restaurant can not
provide.Halloween party at Lucy feels sad and angry that his friends laugh at
her father's mentally retarded. But
Lucy still loves her father and proud because there are no fathers as capable
as his father played to the park and so forth.
The conflict in this film begins when Lucy's surprise birthday party for seven
made by Sam aided by his friends and others. When
he opened the door she saw her father pushed to fall. His father encouraged by touching
Conner to be in a position of surprise. But
Conner Sam angry and feel the situation is (mentally retarded) move. Conner's father got angry and pushed
him. Conner lied by saying that
Lucy tells him that Sam is not his father but he was adopted. Lucy then ran it was not ready with
it. It was witnessed by Loretta
Devine a woman from social services had met Sam at a police station when Sam
caught up with the comfort women case.Assess the social services child
protection case that is a pretty serious and needs to be addressed by the
state. According to Lucy that the
more they grow up to have the foster parents, because Sam is having an IQ below
capacity Lucy is under the age of 7 years of raising a child would understand
that more intelligent than him. Sam
was taken to the social services for further investigation. Lucy was arrested and taken
separately. To regain parental
rights to Lucy, Sam should hire a lawyer to fight for it.
Sam finds a clever woman lawyer, super busy, a mother who does not have the
time with his son and give less attention, a wife who left her husband because
of his work. The woman lawyer
named Rita Harrison expertly played by actress Michelle Pfeiffer. Rita appeared with a life of luxury
and pride. Because of the
attitude and arrogance to show his friends he stuck to become a lawyer pro bono
(volunteer) to Sam, who at first he was not prepared because Sam can not afford
to pay per hour. But Rita finally
melted and learn from the life of Sam. He
got a valuable lesson for a pro bono attorney for Sam. Rita is very clever answer and give
statements in court custody Sam returns to Lucy. Rita gave his services free of charge,
to be patient in waiting between the time that it is very solid, trying to find
the facts and support for the case with Sam. He
tried to get testimony and support from friends about why Sam Sam deserves to
be a father of Lucy. But it did
not work for the reasons given his friends are not appropriate. He tried to get Sam to find a witness
in the graduates of the college or the work is implicitly meant to find someone
who has the capacity of people in general who can lead the conversation. Sam asked for help Annie, but Annie's
worried she can do it. But
because of his love for Lucy finally he comes to trial. Rita is very smart to fight any given
opponent Mr statement.Turner, played by Richard Schiff who has a scathing
statement that at the end of the trial to question the very corner-statement
emosionalan one side to Sam, so Sam lost control and into chaos.In the end they
did not succeed to win her custody of Lucy. Custody
of Lucy fell into the hands of his adoptive parents Randy Carpenter, played by
actress Laura Dern. Because the
bond of love anatara parents and children Sam and Lucy are inseparable. Despite his custody has fallen into the
hands of others, Sam and Lucy still stay together. Sam finally bought a house near the
home of Lucy and foster parents have a dog for a new job is a nurse. Every night, Lucy was still back and
forth to his house to climb her window. To
the extent that eventually foster parents Randy Lucy Lucy confessed and handed
it back to Sam on the condition he continue to participate until the great care
of Lucy.
The climax of the film is Sam a futsal match referee in Lucy, attended by all
the friends and people who have known Sam. Lucy
and Sam make a field goal and took hold Lucy ran for joy. Taking pictures and good music
accompanied by supportive atmosphere to be touched and happy.
This film has a good plot, story line focused. The words of a remarkable dialogue that
has the essence of its own. Ranging
from taking pictures by cammeramen, emotionally evocative music and actor actor
who plays each character very well. Any
scene that has become a key teaching of the meaning and the beauty of this
film.Dialogue and meaningful words in this film, and played by actors who are
able to manage her role very well, seemed to bring us into this fim. Animated pictures, music and its a
very good camera supporting the success of this film. In every scene that displayed nothing
in vain all have the essence of its own. So
the film can be nominated in the Academy Award and deliver the main actor Sean
Penn the best actor in a AcademyAward, and Dakota Fanning also be the best for
the best young actrees Peformance.
Unfortunately, this film makes me a little confused on the story as Sam's wife
Rebecca was or not. And Lucy was
the biological child of Sam or Lucy is a child of the pregnant women who have
been found. One thing that
puzzles me is the group of friends Sam consisting of five people, Sam, Ifti,
Joe, Robert, and Brad. But at
night the first video to Sam when Lucy comes first in his house there are 5
friends who were visiting that seems to have Down syndrome as well as Brad. Yet at the entrance to his house the
first time there were only four people standing there, but in the end when Sam
sat the room they are 5 and 6 with Sam. That's
what makes me a bit confused and did not explain who the film is named sodium
absorption ratio. He said that
Lucy looks very pretty.
This movie teaches how to parent their children. Here can be seen how the intellectual
capacity or IQ does not hamper one's affection given parents to their children,
as well as compassion for others. He
would hug her setiapp seen crying. As
expressed by Lucy when Mr.Turner provide a statement that he would get more
than what his father gave. "All
you need is love". This
staple of every child who grew up loving parents is needed. And a mentally retarded memeberikan
not blocked it ..
I am sam is a picture of the lives of the mentally retarded or mentally
impaired and dyslexic. He was
seen as a gaping behavior when thinking, yelling and spinning as well as
repeat-ngulang said. He is also
hard to read when reading the textbook's Lucy.
We should learn from Sam and his colleagues. Those
who experience a barrier provided by the creator can do the activity with
pleasure and without complaint. With
the limitations that they have they have a purely humanitarian spirit, helping
each other with sincerity that they have souls.
Overall
I am sam is giving a message to parents and teachers, how to become a good
educator or goodparent it is about its constancy, and its about patience, and
its about listening and its about pretending to listen when you can Aven ' t listen anymore, and its about love. An excerpt of the said Sam while
fighting for custody in court against her daughter. That's about the courage and loyalty,
patience in educating and caring, listening and pretending to listen even when
you can not hear at all, and it's about love and affection that is given to the
child's genuine. Not limited by
the intellectual capacity (IQ) person.
The film stirred my heart and strengthen the education departmentto be exceptional. I am sure of this because the department still needed a lot of people here to help them fight for the rights of people with special needs. In addition to getting the job easier forteachers to exceptional schools at this time is needed, I wanted to feel how to teach the truth benarnya.Karena encouragement andsupport from my teachers would prefer to leave the department of nutrition and special education majors. family initially refused buteventually had to give permission and support. Because while visiting my friend's house, there happened to his house beside the school SLB C Tunagrahita. I saw the condition of underprivilegedschool. Starting from the facilities, teachers and even methods ofteaching. Seeing them learn and be taught the teacher I was interested to come teach them.Paradigm of society towards people with special needs is still bad,such as books and some movies I've watched this mengenaispecialneeds. That's why I tried to convince everyone that asked to changetheir perceptions of these people. I vowed to always be on this path,and continue it to a higher level when finished later. I also intend toexamine how the state special education outside of Indonesia.Of family support and I am sure teachers with these majors.
