Wonderful. That was my first though after watching Finding Forrester. The story was great and they did a flawless job on casting the actors. The fact that Jamal missed the two free throws to and caused his team to lose the championship basketball game was important to illustrate an example. It showed that although schools do often favor their athletes in a scholastic manor by helping them keep their grades, there is a right way to handle these matters and that only the strong athletes would not take advantage of those types of situation. It showed that he was stronger than the professors and that they cannot get what they want though bribery. This movie slightly reminded me of Save the Last Dance. Except the roles were switched, the black male, Jamal, was the new student and the white female, Claire Spencer was the student that was mainly the first and only friend at the school. Despite of this the theme and the story were great.
English teachers and professors should not be as skeptical as Professor Crawford. I do believe that professors need to look for plagiarism but at the same time they should not be as paranoia as Crawford was. I would consider Professor Crawford an unfair and pessimistic teacher that subconsciously wanted others to suffer because of his troubles with trying to publish his book. He showed his unfairness when he was challenged be Jamal on quotes from famous authors and when Jamal turned in his essays he did not think that he could write so well, he doubted Jamal's smarts. Crawford was unfair because he always had to be right and had to get even with his students.
Prior to watching this movie I had no idea what to expect out of it, I had no clue on what it was about. Once I started watching it I started to remember the previews that I have seen a while back which refreshed my memory on what the story was about. I liked this movie not because of the story or the plot, but because of t
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