Thousands of miles of mountains and rivers are not as good as the rivers and rivers. You are my lifelong belief.
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The movie "I Am Sam" is directed by Jesse Nelson and stars Sean Penn, Dakota Fanning, Michelle ·Starring Pfeiffer and others, it was released in 2001 and was nominated for Best Actor at the 74th Academy Awards in 2002. It mainly tells a tender story about Sam, a father with an IQ of only seven years old, who fights for the custody of his daughter Lucy under great pressure from society.
The film begins with the protagonist Sam Dawson repeating simple actions. Through Sam's speech and behavior, we understand that he is an adult with an IQ of only seven years old. He rushed out of the coffee shop and rushed to the hospital. He was going to welcome a new life - his daughter. Sam carefully took over the baby, his eyes full of love. He followed the child's mother out of the hospital, but the child's mother ran away alone, leaving Sam and the child to depend on each other.
Sam cherished the little one given by God very much and named the child Lucy. He takes Lucy to work every day, but Lucy grows up day by day, and Sam can no longer take her to work. He entrusted Lucy to his neighbor Anne, who graduated from Juilliard School of Music. She taught Lucy piano and helped Lucy grow up. Sam would play with Lucy, and his days were dull but happy.
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Life suddenly changed on Lucy's sixth birthday. The local government believed that Sam, a mentally disabled person, could not raise Lucy, so they sent Lucy to a child welfare institution.
Sam struggled but tried hard to argue: "The foster family doesn't understand Lucy, I understand her because I am her father."
But the other party threw him a Cold water: "But your IQ is only seven years old."
Sam was filled with grief and anger, and began the difficult road to regain Lucy's custody rights.
Sam found the most famous lawyer in the area, but he was too poor to afford the cost of hiring a lawyer. Perhaps God also has some compassion for Sam, the poor father, so Rita (a female lawyer) provides free services to Sam. At the same time, during the rough process, the family who was preparing to foster Lucy was also moved and gave up custody of Lucy. Finally, it ends with shots of the stadium, full of laughter...
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The film is very expressive in the use of lenses force. When Sam entered the ward and waited for the birth of a new life, a very fast panning was used to show Sam's nervousness and anxiety as a new father.
The camera clearly rotates again when Sam is selecting baby products for Lucy in the supermarket, showing Sam's confusion about raising a child alone, and also showing Sam's panic when he takes the witness stand. , admitting that he cannot add legitimacy to Lucy's better life.
When Sam was defending in court, the camera slowly advanced, showing Sam's nervousness and helplessness. Faced with this huge pressure, Sam could only shout and slap the table... What tremendous pressure this society puts on people with disabilities.
The colors in the film are vivid, with a clear contrast between cold and warm tones. The film uses a lot of cold tones. When Sam welcomes new life, when Sam is arguing in court, and when Lucy is taken away and separated from Sam, blue tones are used uniformly to create a sad atmosphere and show the protagonists Sam and Lucy. The sadness and helplessness in my heart. Warm colors are mostly used when Sam and Lucy spend time together, showing their love for each other.
The film makes great use of the contrast between sound and picture in terms of sound and music. It uses cheerful music and blue-toned sad images to form a strong contrast, heightening the tense atmosphere and expressing Sam's anxiety. Sadness and vulnerability. On Lucy's seventh birthday, Sam plays disjointed music in the apartment. The sadness and depression between father and daughter in this supposed happy moment is particularly touching.
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Human beings' joys and sorrows are not the same. Everyone has his own unspeakable pain. As a mentally disabled person, Sam has suffered too much injustice and indifference. He silently endured all this cruelty, but when someone wanted to take away his daughter, he showed extreme extremes and hysteria that were inconsistent with his gentleness.
In fact, this movie is controversial: Which is better for a child to stay with a single mentally retarded father or to go to a foster family? life? Everyone has different opinions and different opinions.
But in my opinion, what children actually need is more pure love. In his defense, Sam said: "Thinking about the conditions for successful parenthood is perseverance! Patience! And listening..." Pure love will not be restricted by any conditions. As the female lawyer Rita said in the film, "Intelligence obviously has nothing to do with the ability to love."
Just like the daughter understands that Sam is different from other fathers, but still says to Sam: "I don't want anyone to be my father except you." Sam is flawed as a person, but he is a successful father...