I rented Finding Forester yesterday. I found the performances by Sean Connery and Brown(?) quite moving. I liked the closeness shown between Brown and his family, even though his father was no longer in the picture. I rarely see such normalcy portrayed about inner city black families.
The scene where F. Murray Abrams indirectly accuses Jamal of turning in plagerized work was also a killer for me. The assumptions he made were painful, but rang true. I did a similar thing to a young student during my year of student teaching, when I was fresh out of my teacher training program.
I will never forget the experience, the assumptions I made, and my guilt about it. I still think about the girl (she was a mediocre student, and I thought her a young blonde airhead), and the erroneous accusations I made about her work. Although I learned a very valuable lesson from the experience, I never got the chance to tell the girl that I had been wrong to make the assumptions I did.
Anyways, I really liked this movie. I've been thinking about it all day, which I always see as a barometer of a good movie.
