I Am Sam

I have watched this movie few years ago and it became one of my favorite lifetime movies. It’s one of the movies I won’t ever get tired of watching over again and shared to any people I come across with.

Sean Penn is undoubtedly one of my favorite actors. His character in this movie is Sam Dawson whose intellectual capacity was of a 7 year old. This is also his daughter’s age, Lucy Dawson played by Dakota Fanning--when he was fighting for her custody. The story evolved between the love of his father to her daughter despite of his mental illness and how the two’s struggle teaches his ruthless lawyer Rita Harrison Williams played by Michelle Pfeiffer the value of love and family.

If this was a real life situation, I don’t think it would finish like how it ended, though. But then again, it’s just a movie. Going back to my needed reaction for this, I am so much moved by the lines thrown by each character. ‘All you need is love’-said Lucy. She almost resembled Ewan McGregor who said the same exact lines in Moulin Rouge, like she’s too old to know about love. So who would not get their heart smashed? Only if the judge heard those lines right there and then, the movie would have ended by then.

I also thought that Sam and Rita would build their own love tale but that’s another story and I know it would only make the movie unreal and more complicated. Not only that the movie taught their viewers about love, family and parenthood but also friendship. They featured 3 people with disabilities who played as friends of Sam and indisputably added a real touch to the movie. They strongly stayed behind Sam no matter what it takes and taught us the value of friendship.

I am Sam is truly a powerful movie that makes most people cry who ever get a chance to watch it. It brought me so much impact that I even want a sequel of the movie where Lucy is already a teenager. That makes me wonder.

Submitted to: Ms. Saturday in Tagalog (again) :)