I Am Sam Analysis
Date viewed / Title / Writer / Main Actors / Year released Date viewed: March 3rd, 2018 / Title: I Am Sam / Writer: Kristine Johnson and Jessie Nelson / Main Actors: Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Dakota Fanning / Year Released: 2001
2. Describe four (4) specific scenes from the movie that portray how limitations in cognition (e.g. comprehension, attention, memory, problem-solving, skill transfer, etc.) were portrayed by the character with intellectual disabilities. At 5:20, Sam doesn’t understand that his partner, the mother of his child, does not want the baby. He does not notice that she refuses to hold the baby. When they walk out to the bus and she runs away, Sam doesn’t understand why she is running away.
At 9:00, Sam is understanding how to feed the baby by connecting her feeding times to the airtime of certain TV shows, instead of using a regular clock. At 14:00, Sam and Lucy are eating breakfast. Lucy tells Sam that he is different from other dads. Sam doesn’t seem to understand how he is different from other dads.
At 18:30, When Lucy asks him to go to Bob’s Big Boy instead of IHOP, Sam is incapable of changing his routine and understanding why Lucy wants to try something new. He becomes …show more content…
He wants to order what he usually gets at IHOP, but they don’t serve those items at Bob’s Big Boy. He makes a scene with the waitress and demands to see “Bob”. He is clearly uncomfortable when he is at Bob’s Big Boy.
7. Discuss the impact of intellectual disability upon the family members of the character with the disability, as portrayed in the movie.
Sams limitations made his daughter feel guilty when she realized she was reading better then him and getting smarter then him. It made her feel that it was wrong to learn more then her father did. She became afraid to learn.
8. How accurate do you believe the portrayal of the disability was? Explain your rationale, citing text content to support your
2. Describe four (4) specific scenes from the movie that portray how limitations in cognition (e.g. comprehension, attention, memory, problem-solving, skill transfer, etc.) were portrayed by the character with intellectual disabilities. At 5:20, Sam doesn’t understand that his partner, the mother of his child, does not want the baby. He does not notice that she refuses to hold the baby. When they walk out to the bus and she runs away, Sam doesn’t understand why she is running away.
At 9:00, Sam is understanding how to feed the baby by connecting her feeding times to the airtime of certain TV shows, instead of using a regular clock. At 14:00, Sam and Lucy are eating breakfast. Lucy tells Sam that he is different from other dads. Sam doesn’t seem to understand how he is different from other dads.
At 18:30, When Lucy asks him to go to Bob’s Big Boy instead of IHOP, Sam is incapable of changing his routine and understanding why Lucy wants to try something new. He becomes …show more content…
He wants to order what he usually gets at IHOP, but they don’t serve those items at Bob’s Big Boy. He makes a scene with the waitress and demands to see “Bob”. He is clearly uncomfortable when he is at Bob’s Big Boy.
7. Discuss the impact of intellectual disability upon the family members of the character with the disability, as portrayed in the movie.
Sams limitations made his daughter feel guilty when she realized she was reading better then him and getting smarter then him. It made her feel that it was wrong to learn more then her father did. She became afraid to learn.
8. How accurate do you believe the portrayal of the disability was? Explain your rationale, citing text content to support your