Finding Forrester (Full)

Finding Forrester is a story about writing, friendship and dreams.

At first you would think that it is a story about blacks and whites or that it would give you lessons about racial discrimination. That’s a common notion on movies starring blacks and whites, and that’s one thing that Finding Forrester successfully altered.

It’s a story about writing, about one man who was able to finish and publish a book great enough for him to win a Pulitzer Prize and about a young man who enjoys writing on a greater extent than sharing his feelings to his friends and expressing his thoughts in school. The former is William Forrester, author of a book entitled “Avalon Landing” that put him on the list of successful writers. The latter on one hand is Jamal Wallace, a sixteen-year-old boy who does well on basketball and writing. Both of them see writing as a source of happiness and sense of fulfillment.

It’s a story about friendship. It’s a friendship between a reclusive old man and a silent and humble kid, a friendship that is no ordinary. What binds these two together is their passion for writing. As William patiently help Jamal improve his writing abilities and as Jamal tried to learn more things about William aside from writing, their friendship grew deeper and deeper. William helped Jamal discover what really his talent is and Jamal in turn helped William to rediscover the world he escaped from for long years. They both found such sense of trust and companionship from each other.

It’s a story about dreams, two different dreams however. One, a dream that has gone missing and two, a dream that is yet to be achieved. The movie let the audience see how to discover dreams, how to redefine dreams and how to make it happen. And that is for me, what made the film truly interesting because I believe that everyone has their own unique dreams, everyone has been living their own colorful journeys and everyone has been working so hard to finally live their dreams.

Finding Forrester is a film you would easily understand notwithstanding how deep its message is. It is a movie that would touch your inner being, and a movie that would leave a big impact in your heart and mind.  It is a movie that would forever have such power to inspire not just young minds but as well as those who have already accomplished a great deal of things.

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"You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. Remember, the first key to writing is to write not to think."

"Writers write things to give readers something to read."