In the movie, Sam uses lyrics of the Beatles’songs to express what he wants to say many times. So why is San so familiar with “The Beatles” ? One important reason is that although Sam’s intellectual capacity is around a 7-year-old , he has his own understanding in Beatles’ songs and quite loves it .Profound knowledge and high intelligence are not required in the world of music where you can be affected unknowingly by others’passion. Besides, the lyrics of many songs produced by Beatles are rather simple to understand without difficult words, especially for Sam who has such a small vocabulary. Another 不可忽略reason for Sam’s admiration for Beatles is from Annie who is excellent at music. You see, Sam and Annie have a good relationship and Sam seems to have found a partner with the same interests in Beatles and also a teacher he can consult about his puzzles just like what Mr. Turner says “he’s knocking on your door asking questions all the time .” Annie’s genuine support makes Sam know more about Beatles.
Sam is held back by his low capacity to appropriately express himself with a range of possible behaviors. In other words, he fails to organize his own words and use some communication techniques. So when facing challenging questions, Sam has to quote some lyrics of Beatles as powerful evidence. It should be noticed that there are four important scenes in which such lyrics are quoted. The first scene is when Lucy asks Sam if her mother will come back one day, Sam remarks:“Paul
Mccartney lost his mother when he was little and John Lennon lost his mother when he was little. Annie says that God picks special people sometimes.”Actually, Sam want to make Lucy know that she can be unique and successful even if Rebecca left her, just like the Beatles. The second one is when Ms Wright doubts his capability to raise Lucy, Sam says:“John wanted to try new things. It wasn’t Yoko’s fault.”-----------------And when Sam is questioned why he is so firm that Lucy belongs to him in the court, he tells the story in which John Lennon wrote the part that said “I love you. I love you. I love you” in the song called Michelle. Through those lyrics, Sam intends to convey his ideas that all a good father needs is love and anything else is secondary. This is a kind of 双方的love. Despite the stupid answers, slow actions and sometimes silly mistakes, Lucy genuinely senses her father’s love and always gives responsive reactions. That’s the bottom line. At last, to show his determination to get Lucy back, Sam tells Rita that George Harrison wrote “here comes the sun” even when he thought he couldn’t. Nothing is impossible, you just need to try. Once disappointed at the failure in court, Sam once wants to give up and isolates himself. It’s Rita who wake up his hope. But at this time Rita is moved by Sam’s strong perseverance and become more hopeful.
In the whole movie, 17 songs of Beatles are inserted in different situations, creating harmonious effect. They include “two of us”“I’m
looking through you” “Lucy is in the sky with diamonds”“mother nature’s son”“blackbird”“What impresses me most is “Lucy in the sky with diamonds” after which his daughter is named.。