I am Sam

From time to time you go to the movies just to spend a Saturday afternoon and you found a little treasure, this is what happened to me when I saw “I am Sam”.

It is a drama film made in 2001; it stars Sean Penn and Michelle Pfeiffer.

Sean Peen plays the part of his life as Sam Dawson; actually he was nominated for the Oscar to the best actor in a leading role.

The film is about the strength of paternal love. Sam Dawson is a 7-year-old-minded man; he has been left to his fate with a daughter to rise the day after her birth.

He takes care of Lucy Diamond (she named her so for the Beatles’ song “Lucy in the sky with diamonds”) helped by her three handicapped friends and his agoraphobic neighbor Annie.

Soon he realizes Lucy is really smart and that she knows her father is different but she loves her dad above all. After Lucy’s eventful birthday, a social worker sends her with a foster family during the trial which has to decide Sam’s ability for taking care of Lucy.

Sam hires Rita as his lawyer (a so called cold and heartless woman) whose private life is as dysfunctional as brilliant is her career.

In his way Sam help the others to make up their lives, he manages to make Annie go to the court to testify and overcome her phobia, he advises Rita to leave a husband who doesn’t love her and to recover the relation with her son.

Sam is somehow more sensible than the average people, his viewpoint is simple and all he does is for love.

During the trial Rita says “every parent has those moments when their child is so unbelievably challenging, that you feel retarded” and as Sam Says fathering “is about patience, about listening, and it’s about LOVE”, ¿simple? but plain truth…