Iam Sam
“I am Sam” is the story of mentally challenged Sam Dawson who is suddenly faced with raising his newborn daughter on his own after the mother leaves the two of them right outside of the hospital. Sam names the baby girl Lucy Diamond, after the Beatles’ song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”. With the help of Annie, a wise and also watchful neighbor, and Sam’s circle of mentally challenged friends, his informal support network, Sam manages to raise Lucy. Everything goes well until Lucy reaches age 7 which is the level of Sam’s mental capacity. A series of unfortunate events makes a social worker become aware of the situation. She decides that Sam is an unfit father and that he cannot take care of Lucy any longer. The legal argument is that he won’t be an appropriate parent once Lucy is mentally older than him. Sam and his friends realize they need help to ensure Sam’s custody of Lucy and to fight the system. Rita Harrison takes the case free of charge but for completely selfish reasons. The moment she steps into the picture it becomes clear that the purpose of this movie is not only to show how a parent with a disability is caught in the legal and social service systems. There is more to it. The movie raises some se
I am no expert on this but I can imagine that Lucy will grow up to be a much more patient, more understanding, more modest and more mature adult than others. ‘It takes a village to raise a child’ – an old saying which is true for everyone. Sam needs help to raise Lucy but not just because of his disability. He needs help how everybody needs help. Will “I am Sam” have an impact on the viewers’ attitudes toward mentally disabled people? Probably not. I don’t think people will change their opinion because of the movie. It is something that most people prefer not to think or talk about anyways. Rita works way too hard to support her shallow, cold and materialistic lifestyle which doesn’t even make her happy. As she gets to know Lucy and Sam she realizes how badly she has failed with her own son. She has the money to buy him anything he wants but she still cannot give him what he really needs. He needs attention. The same attention Lucy gets from Sam. I truly believe that Lucy is the happier child until she becomes smarter than her father, until her friends start teasing her about him and until she is taken away by the state. I found the type of camera the director uses to be distracting at first. But once I got used to it, I noticed how it lets the movie become authentic and real. She admits to herself that she cannot replace Sam and gives Lucy back to him.
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Approximate Word count = 995
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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