Blog 8 Finding Forrester

Finding Forrester

The Finding Forrester talk about a story happen between two people, Jamal Wallace and William Forrester. Jamal is a 16 years old black teenager who has talent on writing and playing basketball. William Forrester is a reclusive writer who once won the Pulitzer Price. The story begin in a basketball court where Jamal always play basketball with his friends . They find out that Forrester always watch them from the window of a nearby apartment and so they name him the "window". Jamal was encourage by his friends to go the window's house but he accidently  left his backpack there. Later he find his journals was read and gave commons. He want Forrester to read more of his writings. Since then their friendship begins. Forrester find Jamal has talent in writing and he taught him how to improve writing skills. Forrester firstly let Jamal to rewrite one of his essays and told Jamal never show others what was write in this apartment. But Jamal submitted that re-write paper in a writing competition as his own and was later found out of plagiarism. Jamal then face a dilemma, if he may be dismiss for school if he doesn't have the permission from Forrester. He chose to keep the promise and luckily he was told that if he can lead the school basketball team to win a championship he can still stay in school. At the end of that basketball game he got a chance to save his team and win the game but i think he chose not to. Because i think he don't  want to stay in the school using his basketball talent rather than writing talent. At the end of the movie Forrester shown up in Jamal's writing competition and read one of Jamal's work in order to show Jamal really has a writing talent.  After the competition Forrester thanks Jamal for keep the promise and friendship.
I love this movie because it teach me how to make a chose between dream and reality. I love that part which Jamal got a penalty shot but he miss the ball. I think that's one of the dramatic moment in this movie and whether he missed the ball or not became a question. I think the mean theme in this movie is how Jamal chose between school and his dream as a writer. Different person may have different opinion about how he chose. But i believe he chose to miss the ball but he wants to stay in the school by using his writing talent.