Blog 10

  Finding Forrester is a good movie written by Mike Rich and directed by Gus Van Sant. Jamal Wallace, played by Rob Brown, an African-American teenager who has talent in playing basketball and writing. William Forrester portrayed by Sean Connery is an eccentric recluse who did not like to get out of his apartment. In addition, there are some plots about plagiarism in the end of the movie. Because Jamal's paper not only did not write any citation but also not have Forrester's permission, so the professor Crawford found him cheating. I support with Professor Crawford, because he found evidence to prove Jamal had plagiarism, and his paper definitely different from his paper before he coming to this private school. For question 4, there are 70% students choose "No", it concludes that it does not matter to the decision about plagiarism that Jamal as a very good writer. Because Jamal was unintentionally to have the plagiarism, he wrote the paper in Forrester's apartment and he got Forrester's permission, but he promised Forrester not to tell others their relationship, so it caused plagiarism. Moreover, there are 72% students support with that Jamal did not understand why Forrester told him not to submit anything he wrote with Forrester. In my opinion, Jamal has a happy family and he did not experience the feeling of losing family so he could not know Forrester's guilty and sadness. And Forrester used his previous training method to train Jamal, maybe there are a lot of similarities in their paper. There are 72% students support with Jamal intentionally miss the two free throws in the championship game. At that time, he's mood was affected by professor Crawford and he had complex feelings. The most important point, he could not focus on his game. Therefore, he missed points and lost the game.