Year released Date viewed: March 3rd‚ 2018 / Title: I Am Sam / Writer: Kristine Johnson and Jessie Nelson / Main Actors: Sean Penn‚ Michelle Pfeiffer‚ and Dakota Fanning / Year Released: 2001 2. Describe four (4) specific scenes from the movie that portray how limitations in cognition (e.g. comprehension‚ attention‚ memory‚ problem-solving‚ skill transfer‚ etc.) were portrayed by the character with intellectual disabilities. At 5:20‚ Sam doesn’t understand that his partner‚ the mother of his
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‘I Am Sam’- Assessment Sam is the main character in ‘I Am Sam’. He faces a number of issues throughout the movie‚ but the main hardship is to gain custody of his daughter. Sam’s role is a mentally retarded male‚ with a mental capacity of a seven year old. Sam’s daughter‚ Lucy‚ is seven and her teachers fear that Sam’s aptitude is holding her back because she does not want to be smarter than her father. Lucy loves Sam very much‚ however she knows he was not the average father‚ as she told her best
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the ratio of mental age to chronological age. The movie‚ I Am Sam‚ raises an important question; does an individual’s IQ have an affect on whether they can be a good parent? Many theories have been developed to better understand and measure intelligence. The Single Factor Theories‚ Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory‚ and Gardner’s Theory‚ along with Baumbrind’s theory on parenting styles can all be used to analyze the characters in I Am Sam. The movie questions the relevance of IQ score and its impact
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I am Sam is a heart-warmth story of Sam Dawson‚ a mentally challenged single father who is raising his daughter Lucy with the help of an extraordinary group of friends and his next door neighbor Anne. As Lucy turns seven and begins to intellectually outshine her father‚ their close bond is threatened when their situation comes under the inquiry of a social worker who wants Lucy placed in foster care. According to Smart (2016)‚ Society causes the disability‚ and it is society‚ rather than the individual
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learning about using visual techniques. An important idea worth learning about in the film I am Sam directed by Jessie Nelson is the power of love. This theme is portrayed by the relationship between Sam and his seven year old daughter Lucy. Love is an important idea in the film because Sam has a mental handicap which causes society to misjudge him‚ but Lucy chooses to see past his disability and loves Sam for who he is. There are some key techniques used by the director to demonstrate ideas about
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I Am Sam is a movie of many themes and ideas. To express these themes and ideas many film techniques are used to help the viewer interpret different scenes in a manner that the director wants. Some techniques include camera angles‚ music‚ colour‚ lighting and characterisation. Characterisation uses a variety of other film techniques‚ such as camera angles‚ music and lighting‚ to help the viewer empathise‚ sympathise and understand different characters. It is used widely throughout I Am Sam‚ mainly
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4321 | Due Date: 4/20/15 Topic: Intellectual Disability Movie: I Am Sam Sam Dawson‚ portrayed by Sean Penn in the movie “I Am Sam”‚ is an individual struggling with an intellectual disability. He is a pleasant‚ hardworking‚ and enthusiastic man who tends to customers at a coffee shop. His duties consists of cleaning up spills‚ greeting customers‚ and filling canisters with new packets of sugar. Upon leaving the hospital‚ Sam and his newborn daughter are abandoned by the homeless woman who
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Critical Review: I Am Sam The movie‚ I am Sam‚ is the portrayal of a mentally retarded single parent struggling to maintain custody of his normal intelligence daughter. Within his circle of acquaintances are four special needs adults who are his close friends and two normal intelligence adults who exhibit disordered behavior. The writers‚ Kristin Johnson and Jessie Nelson‚ spent months researching and observing developmentally disabled adults in order to provide an accurate representation of the
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he movie I picked was I Am Sam. It is about a grown man who has a mental capacity of a 7 year old raises his baby alone own until child protective services deems him as an unfit guardian. Eventually‚ his daughter Lucy gets taken away from Sam because child protective services say he is not capable of taking care of her. He then goes out and finds a lawyer‚ Rita. She takes Sam’s case pro bono. I picked a random movie from the list‚ started with the first column of movies and typed each one into the
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Mikaela McMorine October 21st‚ 2012 Analyzing an Interview Movie: I Am Sam (directed by Jessie Nelson) The individuals involved in the interview are a man diagnosed with Autism (subject S) and a female lawyer (subject R). They are connected through a professional-helping relationship. The incidents leading up to the interview are with regards to a custody battle concerning subject S and his seven year old daughter. His doctors have declared that the intellectual capacity of subject
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