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Finding Forrester Movie Review

Finding Forrester movie review

Finding Forrester is a 2000 American drama film written by Mike Rich, and directed by Gus Van Sant. An african-american teenage boy named Jamal Wallace, is invited prestigious private high school. During this time Jamal befriends a reclusive writer, William Forrester, through whom he helps find his talent for writing and also helps Jamal find his true self.

16 year old Jamal Wallace plays basketball with his friends at the court outside Forrester’s house, the group of friends usually notice that Forrester watches them play from the window on the top floor of the building. One day Jamals friends dared him to sneak up to Forresters apartment and take something, to prove he was there. To his surprise Forrester catches him, making Jamal run away leaving his backpack. Later that day Forrester dropped Jamals backpack onto the street for him to retrieve, and in Jamals notebook he noticed that his journal entries were edited and there were other notes made. Jamal then goes back to Forrester apartment to get him to read more of his writing. Forrester agrees to help Jamal with his writing only if he doesn't ask him about his personal life.

Throughout the movie, their friendship keeps growing and they end up both helping each other overcome things in their lives. To make their friendship stronger, Jamal takes Forrester to a Yankee stadium one night, where Forrester revealed stuff about his personal life and his family. He also explains to Jamal why he became reclusive.

During this time of Forrester helping Jamal with his writing, Jamals writing improved, making his professor, Crawford accuse him of plagiarism. To settle this Forrester appears at the class and reads aloud an inspiring essay, which professor Crawford praised thinking it was written by Forrester, but soon was told that Jamal actually wrote it.

Overall I think this is a great movie to show true friendship forming between who was once two strangers. I thought the film was very powerful and inspiring. I've learned that everyone deals with things internally. I definitely recommend everyone to watch this movie.

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This review explained the film perfectly.  I felt like I  watched the movie again once I read it. They include many interesting parts that I forgot about when I watched the movie. This movie review really focuses on how the movie is really supportive about being different and how self respect is key
The movie review also warns parents that the "diva persona are likely to be copied by tween (and younger) viewers, which can lead to parental headaches over wardrobe, gotta-have gadgets, and attitude.", which I think is really necessary because there is a dramatic change in the characters attitudes because they all have very powerful attitudes. 

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Please accept my application to join your writing 110 course. I am really interested in joining this class, as I feel it may give me more confidence in my writing skills. I do not write as often as I should but with help from this course I feel it will give me more ideas and experience that will help me further in life. I will work hard to earn this spot in your course.

I do not usually write on my spare time, but I do read a lot and enjoy it, other things I do on my spare time is listen to music, and spend time with my friends. Some of my favourite authors are Sara Shepard and John Green, they write teen-fiction novels. A type of writing that comes easy to me is fictional stories, I enjoy writing this type because I feel I can be more creative in what I write about. A type of writing I find challenging is persuasive.

I find my writing ideas from things I have read in the past, or from tv shows/movies. In grade 4, I was extremely proud of my first writing piece, it was about turtles. I was so taken up with the story I even brought a prompt in, which was my turtle webkinz. To this day I am still proud of the work involved in the story, I was very proud to receive the high mark that I got, that I never forgot about it.

I usually write 1 to 2 draft copies depending on when the essay has to be completed by. I feel I am a strong writer once I get my writing structure planned out, some weaknesses I have as a writer are that I lose confidence in what i'm writing about sometimes.

My goal as a writer and expectation of the course is to learn to be more confident and learn more skills in writing to further my education. I do believe this class will benefit me for my future plans in life.