Decording Forrester Theme

nding Forrester is a fictional film that was directed by Sean Connery and produced by Gus Van Sant. The movie was released in 2000 and was starred by Rob Brown who portrayed a black high school student named Jamal Wallace who has an exceptional talent for basketball and writing, in which both play pivotal roles in the movie. The film was an excellent example of finding individuality, exploring stereotyping such as when Crawford, a professor at the private school that Jamal got enrolled in; believes that nobody of Jamal’s intellect should be able to write as well as he should coming from the area he grew up in. It also explores oneself’s talents and mentorship among old and young. Finding Forrester was among the better films of the decade and splits a line among what friendship and mentorship is.

The film is depicted in New York City. Whereas Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown) is a high school aged student with a love for basketball and very good marks in school. Jamal gets accepted into a very prestigious private high school due in part to his stellar basketball skills and in part to his great test and SAT scores. A major theme of the film is the talent of Jamal and how he goes about hiding his knowledge and education level to his peers in order to stay away from
Sean Connery a seasoned veteran is perhaps the best man for the role as William Forrester. Forrester in the movie is explained as losing his whole family and Jamal a young man who lost his father at a young age. The theme of mentorship plays all too well here. As many young men see the best mentors as their fathers. In this film Jamal has no father and Forrester has no family. In turn we see the two stars form a father-son relationship. Eventually over time the plot gets shaky when a professor at the school accuses Jamal of