7 Pounds
Posted by mike on April 20th, 2009
After working in the yard most of Saturday, Emily and I decided to watch a movie that evening. I was at Lowes trying to decide which stones would make a better edging for a miniature “garden”, and Emily was taking care of the kids and other errands, so she picked it up. Her movie of choice was “7 Pounds“, featuring Will Smith. This was a movie which we knew little about, but both wanted to see based upon previews we had seen.
At first I thought this was going to be a movie about how much weight I gained over the Easter holiday, but I was wrong. Instead, it was a very “deep” movie about a man who sets out to change the lives of seven people, perhaps at the expense of his own. The movie is NOT an “action” movie or a love story, per se, but really about a man’s struggle with the actions of his past. In reflecting on it, I highly recommend it as it will make you think about certain things, even if it was not “critically acclaimed”. It’s maybe a tiny bit slow in some parts, but Smith is awesome as usual. This may be one of his better acting jobs, in fact. The title reportedly refers to Shakespeare’s The Merchant Of Venice, in which a debtor must pay a pound of flesh.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:20 am
It probably wouldn’t have been a ‘bit’ slow to you if you hadn’t figured out the plot in the first 20 minutes!!! Says a lot about the movie that you still liked it though. I thought it was great…in a ‘deep’ & thought provoking kind of way!