The film “Finding Forrester” written by Mike Rich and directed by Gus Van Sant is a 2000 drama. The film tells the story of an African-American sixteen-year-old, basketball star named Jamal Wallace who is invited to attend a prestigious private school in Manhattan named Mailor Callow. Jamal befriends William Forrester, a writer, who helps him refine his talent for writing. Through their friendship, Jamal and William find their identity and search for happiness. Throughout the film, characters make assumptions about Jamal and William, when they are oblivious to the reality. However, Jamal and Wallace are able to defy those assumptions by overcoming their fears to venture into the unknown. First of all, Jamal is undermined scholastically
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William for a long time lives in his apartment, and every once in awhile looks through a window with binoculars. No one ever knew who he was, so rumors spread about William being a murderer. However, William looked through his binocular to watch birds, it seems that he find it as one of his passions. Furthermore, William only stays in his apartment to lock himself out of the rest of the world. William has a personal assistant who brings him clothes, food, and utilities because William is fearful of stepping his foot out of his apartment door. William stopped living when his brother had passed away, he absorbs all his guilt and never expresses it in words or actions; building everything up inside him and finding that the result to reduce the pain is to be alone. Moreover, William defied all the assumptions built around him and stepped foot out of his front door with the help of Jamal. Jamal shows William that people cannot stop living just because others from the past have passed away. As a result, Jamal shows William that life is meant to be lived through happiness. There may be bumps in the road which will make people want to quit or take another path that is smooth and easy, but at the end of the road, there is something better waiting at the end. All things considered, William and Jamal were two people with different lives and people assumed that both characters were only what met the eye. In essence,
William for a long time lives in his apartment, and every once in awhile looks through a window with binoculars. No one ever knew who he was, so rumors spread about William being a murderer. However, William looked through his binocular to watch birds, it seems that he find it as one of his passions. Furthermore, William only stays in his apartment to lock himself out of the rest of the world. William has a personal assistant who brings him clothes, food, and utilities because William is fearful of stepping his foot out of his apartment door. William stopped living when his brother had passed away, he absorbs all his guilt and never expresses it in words or actions; building everything up inside him and finding that the result to reduce the pain is to be alone. Moreover, William defied all the assumptions built around him and stepped foot out of his front door with the help of Jamal. Jamal shows William that people cannot stop living just because others from the past have passed away. As a result, Jamal shows William that life is meant to be lived through happiness. There may be bumps in the road which will make people want to quit or take another path that is smooth and easy, but at the end of the road, there is something better waiting at the end. All things considered, William and Jamal were two people with different lives and people assumed that both characters were only what met the eye. In essence,