I am taking a Sociology class for college, and we had to rent and watch the movie "Finding Forrester", and find the secret meaning of life hidden within. This is what I turned in.
I believe the movie was well done, as Sean Connery makes the best Agent 007 and the best crazy old Scottish guy. Some people could relate to the Jamal, who doesn?t utilize his talents for fear of being rejected by his social clique. Instead, he focuses himself on being a basketball player; something he knows will get him recognition.
At first I thought it was another Spike Lee movie, with the nice black guy and the evil white guy keeping the man down. In fact, it was just two stupid white guys and good old Sean Connery making Jamal realize his full talents and that he should not waste it. Although the movie didn?t give me any new insights into life, it wasn?t a waste of two hours.
This movie shows how people are afraid to break out of what they view to be their own stereotypes. As a black dude, he felt his life was only going to be either a basketball star or a coke-head. So, he pretends he is a lousy student like all his peers, and works on his game, while in secret writing as much as he can because that is what he wants to do.
When joining the new school, you have the obligatory racist white guy on the basketball team that obviously hates Jamal, because that?s the cool thing to do. After Jamal kicks the crap out of him and his arrogant teacher, he gets the hot white girl from X-Men for some reason I will never figure out.
Sean Connery had his own problems, which I feel is also common in old coots these days. He felt responsible for his brother?s death, and when he was talking about that nurse who could only yammer on about his book, it only made him feel worse. He hid from his destiny and went into solitude to avoid his past. It only took him an annoying teenager from the Bronx and fifty years of his life to realize this solved nothing.
I feel Jamal missed those fouls on purpose, I don?t know if that was supposed to be a movie mystery or what not. That was the moment in his life he decided he wanted to write, instead of pursue a career in basketball. Good for him, he overcame the odds. If only everyone could be absolutely perfect in two major aspects of life, what a rough time he had.
The crowning achievement of this movie was when Sean Connery shouted, ?You?re the man now, dog!? It brought a tear to my eye as I could not stop laughing. As long as someone learned something from this movie, or had as hearty a laugh as I did, then this movie will go down in history.
She failed me, and said I need to take it more seriously. What a whore ;0