Finding Forrester

Today in our tutorial, we watched a film entitled Finding Forrester starring Jamal Wallace and Sean Connery. Finding Forrester is about a 16 year-old boy named Jamal Wallace, played by Rob Brown, who happens to be both a brilliant student, as well as an excellent athlete. He gets offered a full ride to a private high school because of his basketball abilities, but before he even attends a class, he discovers the man that will help improve his writing skills the most. Jamal breaks into the apartment of a reclusive man on a dare from his friends, where he accidentally leaves his backpack with all of his writings. Jamal later finds all of his writings to be corrected. Curious, Jamal returns back to the man's apartment and eventually bonds with the man to the point where Jamal finds out the man helping with his writing was actually the Pulitzer Prize winning author, William Forrester, played by Sean Connery.

Finding Forrester was for me an inspirational film rich with symbolism, fantasy, emotion and most of all, the vibrant life. The main theme and main characters were very intriguing to me; the enigma Pulitzer Prize winning author hidden from society yet so close we might trip on him, the quiet, withdrawn intellect of the unassuming athlete, and finally the power of institution and tradition versus the minority. :)