One of the most liked short comments on the Internet is: "The mentally retarded people taught the so-called smart people a lesson, letting them understand what is the most important thing in life."
In fact, this is also true.
Because from the plot of the movie, the two "normal" and "savvy" families in the movie turned out to be worse than the mentally retarded Sam.
One is Connor's father, and the other is Rita.
Connor's father, the movie does not explain his occupation, but obviously, for children, or for any audience, his education method is definitely inappropriate.
At least, he didn't perform as well as Sam.
The key is that Connor's father is obviously a normal person, or a person who has achieved success in his career.
Under normal circumstances, his performance should far exceed that of Sam, but obviously, the truth is often so ironic.
And so does Rita.
Some netizens also raised interesting discussions.
"For a child, is the most necessary condition for the person who raises him the selfless love for him, or the ability of the person raising him? Including finance, IQ, social status, etc.? And for a lover, is the same situation?
What about the same ones?”
This question has been answered by many people.
"If possible, of course both are important, but to some extent, selfless love is actually something every parent has, but it's often expressed in different ways."
"It's definitely not the lover. There are too many lovers nowadays, and they are pursuing more of the latter!"
"It's definitely not a lover. Selfless love most of the time only appears in parents, right?"
"It's nothing more than material and money, or poverty and spirituality. People nowadays seem to care more about the former, right? Otherwise, they wouldn't ask for a car, a house and a deposit, right?"
"Our life is often too realistic and too cruel. When we were very young, our elders taught us to study hard and make money when we grow up. Otherwise, we will be hungry and unable to choose food, and poor people will not choose wives. When we were in high school, our head teachers taught us not to fall in love early and often fall in love early.
Tell us a sentence: Life must be basic, and love will be beautiful; a sentence that people often talk about is that bread is the prerequisite for love, or that poor and humble couples suffer from everything, etc.
However, at the same time, we have also seen that many so-called "rich" families do not have happiness and happiness. Some girls married themselves to money, but did not get love; some men divorced their families after they became rich.
It is not uncommon for a yellow-faced woman to marry a young and beautiful woman; to turn against one another over money disputes, and even to murder and bleed. Why is this?
Materiality and money have made too many of us confused, forgetting what happiness is and what love is. We need material and money, but we should never be enslaved by material and money. What we need more is simplicity.
Happiness and pure love will make life beautiful and the world wonderful. There is a line in the movie: Love is all you need. In fact, this sentence can be changed to Love is all we need. But what is the most important thing to know?
It’s love, how to love. It’s not just family affection, it also includes friendship and love.”
In North America, "I Am Sam" triggered another discussion.
That is, are child protection agencies too indifferent?
After all, "I Am Sam" has archetypal characters, and people are more emotional than rational.
So after watching "I Am Sam", almost normal people will be sensationalized and moved.
Of course, there are rational people who believe that the child protection agency is not indifferent, but that the Sam in "I Am Sam" is too special.
"Although the father-daughter relationship between Sam and Lucy in "I Am Sam" is indeed touching, people can't bear to separate them.
But rationally speaking, when we watch a movie, who are the people around Sam?
It will be interesting to see this movie in detail.
Among these strange friends like Sam, one person starts counting one, two, three, and then someone else starts counting four, five, six, and then ten, which is a natural and mentally retarded behavior.
He has a friend who obviously has delusions of persecution. He will be very wary when someone is recording or typing. There is also a friend who talks endlessly and recites details whenever he thinks of a movie, which is more like an autistic person with some kind of talent.
patients...
These are relatively real. Of course we advocate equality and freedom in our entire society and not to discriminate against mentally retarded people like Sam.
But in real life, such discrimination abounds, so the friends around Sam are all people similar to him.
Although these people have the height and body of adults, their IQs are undoubtedly abnormal.
What would Lucy learn if she were in such an environment?
In the movie we watched, the reason why Sam and Lucy were involved by the child protection agency was because Lucy "disliked" her father, even if it was just for a moment, even if it was just for a moment when a friend mentioned it, she disliked it and felt that he was wrong.
A father like Sam makes her very embarrassed, so we can imagine that even Lucy, her biological daughter, has disliked her father, so what about other people?
For a child who grows up in such a family, it is difficult for us to say that she will eventually grow up healthily.
Why is Sam special?
Because in reality, it is difficult for Sam to have a kind-hearted neighbor like Mrs. Anne, a special neighbor!
Sam's only seemingly normal friend, Annie, graduated with honors from the top Juilliard School of Music, but has been shutting herself in the house since she was twenty-eight. Her performance in court,
This proves that even a normal bad father can bring disaster to his children.
But, but, but, Anne is special!
We can say that without Anne, Lucy would not even have grown up to this stage!
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Let’s look at the beginning. Sam didn’t even understand how to buy diapers, buy milk powder, and how to feed his children.
Without Annie's help, can Sam survive? Can Lucy grow up smoothly?
the answer is negative!
So this Sam is special!
Even many times in the movie, Sam is not shown to be mentally retarded.
But is it really going to be okay for Lucy and Sam to live together?
In fact, Lucy herself has very serious shortcomings! And it is hard to say that this is not related to her special family!
Please note that Lucy's shortcomings in lying are very serious. This is not taught to her by Sam, who is always honest, but is a natural way of self-protection formed by a child in an abnormal family.
Just imagine how a child faces questions from his classmates for a long time - "Why do you have a mentally retarded father?"
This is what education officials worry about: whether children can grow up healthily with such a father and develop their full potential.
Sam's intellectual problems also make him unable to handle more complex tasks, making it difficult for him to afford more parenting expenses.
You have also seen that Lucy clearly knew that Sam was mentally retarded, and the activity of reading bedtime stories was her accompanying her father, not his father accompanying her. This child matured precociously because of his special father.
On the other hand, when Sam knew that Lucy was suppressing her self-development, he successfully encouraged Lucy to move forward in his own way.
Therefore, with the right external guidance, it is actually possible for Sam to accompany her to grow up smoothly.
As for material scarcity, Sam worked hard at two or three jobs to make more money. Please note that working at Pizza Hut requires higher skills and he is also learning.
All we can say is that this Sam is very special. He is so special that he is more studious than many normal people and is hard-working and hard-working!
This is a very rare trait, but in fact, in reality, there are almost too few people like Sam.
In fact, the movie itself admits this, and Sam also admits that it is difficult for him to raise Lucy well on his own. The final outcome may be that both parties jointly take custody of Lucy.
What kind of growing environment is best for Lucy? This is a question that everyone in the play is thinking about. If we love someone, we must try to consider the problem from that person's perspective. This is what we should do at any age.
It is a course that you should study carefully. I hope you will also think about how you can be a child who can understand your parents and grow independently."
Of course, some people feel that the education officials and child protection agencies shown in the movie appear too indifferent.
"Although "I Am Sam" has undergone a series of artistic creations, we can still see from the movie how discriminatory child protection agencies and education officials are when they treat families like Sam and Lucy.
Eyes and an attitude full of indifference.
The courtroom scenes in the film are the confrontation between the real world and the ideal world. In fact, the confrontation between the lawyers is not important. What is important is the problems reflected by these characters in the world of family love.
The opposing lawyers and the staff of the child protection center have zero understanding of family affection. They only see the law and those lifeless rules.
The piano teacher is the one who lacks family affection and is the Achilles' heel in her life.
Sam's lawyer Rita is a character who ignores family affection and is severely retaliated by family affection.
Sam taught them what love is. He showed the sacrifice of a father giving his all to love.
From a few details, we can see that the people from the child protection agency really conducted a rigorous and rigorous investigation into the special family of Sam and Lucy?
The answer is no! Not really!
They don't even know if Lucy is Sam's biological child!
One more thing, why didn't child protective services show up when Lucy was a baby?
I believe that the most difficult thing was that the appearance of Annie could be said to be designed by the movie to allow Lucy to grow up smoothly.
But what about in reality?
If child protection organizations really cared enough, they should have intervened at that time.
At the same time, Lucy's lies, I believe that as long as people from the child protection agency investigate her birth circumstances, it will not be difficult to find out that she is lying!
But it didn’t!”
Of course, some people objected that Lucy lied.
"Lucy needed to answer questions in court. Before she lied, she made a gesture behind her with her fingers. This gesture meant that none of the lies she told counted. She knew in her heart that lying was wrong, but in order to be with her father
She had to lie together. This was the second time Lucy lied, and it was in front of more adults, but in order to be with Sam, she chose to lie. This plot reflects the bravery of her character. She only
She is 7 years old, but she has been running bravely towards her father Sam, which is enough to impress the audience.
I don’t think it’s a particularly serious shortcoming for children to lie. This is what families and schools need to educate them about.
Doesn’t this kind of shortcoming not exist in other children from normal families?”
There are also centrists.
They think there are no bad guys in the movie!
"If you look at the whole film from another angle, the people the male protagonist Sam meets are all very good people, and there are no bad guys in the whole film. Even as the biggest antagonistic force in the film, he wants to take Lucy away.
Children's Bureau. Their original intention is to protect Lucy and allow her to grow up healthily.
Although Sam is mentally handicapped, he still has a job in a coffee shop. The manager, colleagues and customers are all very friendly to him. Even later, because Sam was going to fight for custody and needed a higher salary, the manager agreed with him to try out of goodwill.
Better paying jobs.
Annie, the neighbor who lives at home, helps take care of Lucy with Sam's help, and even goes out of the house to testify in court for Sam.
Even the mother of the foster family gave up Lucy's custody rights in order to respect Lucy, and Lucy returned to her father. Everything beautiful here is like a fairy tale. Fairy tales seem beautiful but also dreamy and false.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! All of this is too beautiful, so it seems unreal. Maybe the director wants to present a movie that expresses fatherly love and truth, goodness and beauty, but if it is too beautiful, it will be divorced
Reality.
The settings of the characters in the movie "I Am Sam" are too beautiful, so that the resistance is weakened. As the biggest resistance, the child protection agency, with the efforts of Sam's side, finally returned the custody rights. It is obvious that
The power is insufficient, and the portrayal of the image is very thin, leaving only an inhuman impression.
So overall, the movie is more like a fairy tale than reality.
First, there is a discussion about rights and abilities.
We know that everyone is born with various rights given by the law. However, due to various reasons, the exercise of one's rights will be subject to certain restrictions, so that the ideal state of full exercise cannot be achieved.
But what we must pay attention to is that we must distinguish rights from abilities and cannot equate the two.
Rights are given to everyone through externally recognized methods and are artificial manifestations; while abilities are the genetic prototype that everyone is born with and are a natural state. Artificial endowment can be said to be a completely equal endowment, and
Natural existence will be different. For example, everyone's natural abilities are different, and the development of abilities in the later period is also different.
In the film, Sam was given custody of his children as soon as he arrived. However, because of his lack of ability, that is, he was theoretically mentally retarded, his custody rights were ruthlessly deprived of him. This will undoubtedly have a great impact on Sam as a father.
Without his daughter's company, Sam is even more lonely.
Theoretically, differences in behavioral capacity will affect one's rights, but the capacity I am talking about refers to general capacity, not legal capacity. This kind of capacity cannot be used as a reason to deprive a person of his rights.
Therefore, Sam can fully have the right to take custody of his children. It is his own freedom to exercise the right of custody himself or to partially transfer the right to custody to others through other means. The law cannot be in the name of "human rights" but itself violates the basic connotation of human rights.
They protected the Lucys, but they didn't think of protecting the "Sams"! This is also a question worth exploring!"
