I Am Sam (Movie)

I Am surface-to-air missile- Assessment Sam is the main character in I Am Sam. He faces a number of issues end-to-end the movie, but the main hardship is to gain clasp of his daughter. Sams role is a ment tout ensembley retarded male, with a mental capacitance of a seven year old. Sams daughter, Lucy, is seven and her teachers attention that Sams aptitude is holding her back because she does not demand to be smarter than her father. Lucy beds Sam very much, however she k instanters he was not the modal(a) father, as she told her best friend that she was adopted.Lucy is taken a expressive style from Sam by the authorities and is only given visitational rights for a couple of time of days each workweek while under supervision. Sam desperately seeks to gain back custody of Lucy. The approach Sam uses to muddle through this adversity, is trying to find a lawyer who can represent him in court. Rita Harrison Williams is a top-notch lawyer and informs Sam he cant afford her. As a r esult, Ritas work colleagues assume she would never do Pro Bono because she is too peachy for that, however to Sams advantage, Rita decides to prove them wrong and takes Sams case on Pro Bono.This is great for Sam because he gets a top-quality lawyer to represent him in court for free, this illustrates Sam would pass never been able to afford a lawyer in the set-back place, as Sam is aware of this himself, saying Yeah, because I make $8. 00 an hour at Starbucks. Per hour. Its an hourly rate. To a large extent, I mobilise this tactic had benefited Sam as he had an excellent lawyer, which gave him a meliorate chance to take aim some rights to Lucy.Rita knows Sams chances are slim for getting full custody of Lucy but in the end, with all characters plan of attack to an agreement, Sam gets joint custody of Lucy with her adoptive invokes which was of crucial importance some(prenominal) to the relationship between father and daughter and more or less importantly Lucy having a well balanced upbringing and not being held back intellectually, emotionally or financially. Without Rita, Sam would have lost all his visiting rights to Lucy and this would have led to the destruction of Sam mentally even further.This is why I believe Rita had a significant impact, with such a successful outcome. This icon has changed my views on parents with a disability and them having normal children. Sam realized he couldnt raise Lucy by himself and yearned for Lucy to have a niggle. Sam to aroused (adoptive mother) If I tell you a secret, that I cant do it by myself because I always wanted Lucy to have a mother Help. I need somebody. Help. Not just anyone. I believe that mentally retarded people are capable of giving loads of cope to a child, they would cherish them heaps, but I dont come back they can give their child/ren the required thought mentally, intellectually or financially. If people with mental disabilities so desire to raise their child, they should be given(p ) joint custody with another sound adoptive family, as in this particular occupy, thus I dont know if a vast amount of adoptive parents in this day and age would be accommodating to this kind of arrangement.This movie also portrays to what extent a parent is willing to sacrifice their environment, security and finances both mentally and physically for their child/ren. This movie couldnt really help me as a person, as I feel it does not relate to me directly, though the induce message I obtained was, there is always a solution for an issue, so long as you consider others involved and meet half way and via media so you achieve a positive outcome for all parties involved, not just for ones self-seeking way.Sam also taught Rita the meaning of love and whether you could patronage love single-handedly, however this was very apparent in the film as having a negative outcome if it was solely based on love alone. I would rate the movie I Am Sam 7 out of 10 because I liked the ideas, mora ls and story sop up of the film, but it had some inauspicious aspects to it. The idea to base the movie on a mentally retarded man is unique and I venerate plots that are out of the ordinary.However, the critical aspect of the film was, its predictability, most of the scenes/settings had a blue tinge to it (e. g. court room, place where authorities were care Lucy and Ritas house) giving the movie/scene a colder, detached feeling, oddly in the scenes where you were suppose to have happy tears, the plot was also a tad slow although it was an emotionally touching film, Id speak up this film could have offended some viewers.Overall, I enjoyed the film and it brought a tear to my eye, though it did not keep me mesmerized, thus loosing focus now and then. I would recommend I am Sam to someone wanting(p) to watch a movie that will touch them emotionally or someone trying to overcome adversity, so they learn compromise, but otherwise its not really a film I would recommend to anyone f or the sake of it.