Get BOOK. Fisher Author : Antwone Q. Finding Fish. Born in prison to a single mother and raised as a ward of Cleveland's foster care system, the author relates how he resisted the lure of drugs and crime to build a successful life for himself.
Baby Boy Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment of his birth in prison to a single mother. He ultimately came to live with a foster family, where he endured near-constant verbal and physical abuse. Guy Westwell. A short summary of this paper. US Navy ensign Antwone Fisher wakes from a nightmare in which an idyllic childhood scene is interrupted by the sound of a single gunshot. Unsettled by his dream, and without justification, Antwone assaults a fellow sailor.
Later, at a disciplinary hearing, he is found guilty of misconduct and sent to Navy psychiatrist Dr Jerome Davenport. Initially he refuses to speak to Davenport but after numerous sessions of stubborn silence Antwone reveals that before he was born his father was murdered, his mother was jailed and that he was sent to a foster family where he was subjected to vicious beatings and psychological abuse.
Antwone is posted to Mexico where he gets involved in another brawl. He is immediately flown back to California to face further disciplinary charges. Davenport demands an explanation and Antwone confides that, as child, he was sexually abused by a female neighbour. We also learn that he was witness to the shooting of his best-friend Jesse the gun shot that punctuates the opening dream sequence.
Antwone is given a warm welcome by his father and his newfound family take him to visit his mother who is still alive and lives nearby in a run-down social housing project. The final scene has Fisher and Davenport walking through the naval base together in brilliant sunshine. Review Denzel Washington's directorial debut is an assured and beautifully filmed film. The movie deploys intense, aestheticising close-ups to good effect and the overall centredness of blackness to the production design, the cinematography and the narrative politicises the film, conveying a powerful sense of self-sufficiency, aspiration and pride.
An intelligent and expressive use of mise-en-scene and editing convey both the trauma of the abuse as well as the partial and painful process of remembering. The film is an adaptation of the book Finding Fish: a Memoir, written by Antwone Fishe, who also wrote the screenplay. The book belongs to the rapidly expanding genre of abuse memoirs, a genre that is typified by Dave Pelzer's, A Child Called 'It': One Child's Courage to Survive in which the victim's physical and sexual abuse provide the grounds upon which they work up the wisdom, strength and self- awareness to succeed against all the odds.
Although pressing many of the same buttons as the work of Pelzer et al the movie is distinct from the wider genre in a number of ways.
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