Mikaela McMorine October 21st‚ 2012 Analyzing an Interview Movie: I Am Sam (directed by Jessie Nelson) The individuals involved in the interview are a man diagnosed with Autism (subject S) and a female lawyer (subject R). They are connected through a professional-helping relationship. The incidents leading up to the interview are with regards to a custody battle concerning subject S and his seven year old daughter. His doctors have declared that the intellectual capacity of subject
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Prof. Bernardo I AM SAM -Reaction Paper I. SUMMARY The movie revolves around a mentally challenged man named Sam Dawson. He has a 7 year old daughter‚ Lucy who in under unfortunate circumstances was taken away from him. Now he asks help from a well-known lawyer‚ Rita and fights for custody over Lucy. With the help of his friends and loved ones‚ they do their best to get Lucy back. On the way‚ rough challenges comes their way but strengthens their bond and love for each other.
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Critical Review: I Am Sam The movie‚ I am Sam‚ is the portrayal of a mentally retarded single parent struggling to maintain custody of his normal intelligence daughter. Within his circle of acquaintances are four special needs adults who are his close friends and two normal intelligence adults who exhibit disordered behavior. The writers‚ Kristin Johnson and Jessie Nelson‚ spent months researching and observing developmentally disabled adults in order to provide an accurate representation of the
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I Am Sam My brief overview of I am Sam is about a mentally challenged man named Sam Dawson who faces epic interruption in his simple way of living when he has to raise his daughter Lucy who he fathered with a homeless woman. Lucy mom abandoned her after she gave birth to her. Sam is raising Lucy alone and is faced with an abundantly load of adversity because of his handicap. As Lucy becomes older she begins to become smarter than her father and alarming incidents starts to occur and question
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he movie I picked was I Am Sam. It is about a grown man who has a mental capacity of a 7 year old raises his baby alone own until child protective services deems him as an unfit guardian. Eventually‚ his daughter Lucy gets taken away from Sam because child protective services say he is not capable of taking care of her. He then goes out and finds a lawyer‚ Rita. She takes Sam’s case pro bono. I picked a random movie from the list‚ started with the first column of movies and typed each one into the
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4321 | Due Date: 4/20/15 Topic: Intellectual Disability Movie: I Am Sam Sam Dawson‚ portrayed by Sean Penn in the movie “I Am Sam”‚ is an individual struggling with an intellectual disability. He is a pleasant‚ hardworking‚ and enthusiastic man who tends to customers at a coffee shop. His duties consists of cleaning up spills‚ greeting customers‚ and filling canisters with new packets of sugar. Upon leaving the hospital‚ Sam and his newborn daughter are abandoned by the homeless woman who
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idea worth learning about in the film I am Sam directed by Jessie Nelson is the power of love. This theme is portrayed by the relationship between Sam and his seven year old daughter Lucy. Love is an important idea in the film because Sam has a mental handicap which causes society to misjudge him‚ but Lucy chooses to see past his disability and loves Sam for who he is. There are some key techniques used by the director to demonstrate ideas about the power of love. These techniques include music‚ colour
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PAPER: I AM SAM Movie Paper: I am Sam We live in a society where media portrays a great deal of information on a daily basis. Movies‚ TV shows‚ videos‚ internet etc. all accommodate with portraying the information all around the world. The advantage of media is that it can educate viewers with all the different kind of information but it can also portray false delusions especially when dealing with people with some kind of disability. For this movie paper‚ I chose the movie I am Sam. It’s a
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I Am Sam is a movie of many themes and ideas. To express these themes and ideas many film techniques are used to help the viewer interpret different scenes in a manner that the director wants. Some techniques include camera angles‚ music‚ colour‚ lighting and characterisation. Characterisation uses a variety of other film techniques‚ such as camera angles‚ music and lighting‚ to help the viewer empathise‚ sympathise and understand different characters. It is used widely throughout I Am Sam‚ mainly
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I AM SAM – A REACTION PAPER I. Summary “I AM SAM” tells the story of Sam Dawson who is mentally-challenged raising his daughter‚ Lucy (named after the Beatles’ Song)‚ with the help of his friends with mental retardation including Annie. As Lucy turns seven she begins to overpower the intellectual ability of his father. Other children tease Lucy for having a retarded father‚ and as a result‚ she become too embarrassed to accept that she is more intellectually advanced than her father
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