{"id":1912,"date":"2008-12-29T03:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T03:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:16:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:16:06","slug":"movie-review-seven-pounds-spoiler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1912","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review “Seven Pounds” SPOILER"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sweetie and I had a date night the other night. Dinner and a Movie. The movie was “Seven Pounds<\/a>” with Will Smith and Rosario Dawson. In terms of the the quality of the movie including the acting, and judging in terms of what I think the movie wanted to do I give the movie a 3 out of 4. Will Smith does a god job and Rosario Dawson is fabulous. However, this is one miserable little movie and I suggest that you go see something else.<\/p>\n

I have real big problems with the premise of the movie. Will Smith’s character, Ben Thomas caused an accident that killed seven people including his wife. So presumably to make up for that he arranges to commit suicide and donate his organs to seven people. These seven people though have to be good people and Ben Thomas is the sole determiner of what a good person is.<\/p>\n

In doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. What about the context? The seven people who died surely had loved ones, relatives, friends, and coworkers who cared for them. Where is their redemption? They don’t get any, they just get one more person killed out of a tragedy. In fact they don’t exist at all as far as this movie is concerned. How is that for compassion? Isn’t there anything that Ben could do for the survivors?<\/p>\n

From a Christian perspective I have huge trouble with this movie. How do you go about determining who is good and who is bad? What gives one the right to determine who lives and who dies? I know that on the wings we have Hitler and Mother Teresa. Most of us fall in the middle somewhere. Plus what about Ben Thomas’s soul. He is cutting and running, leaving everybody else to deal with it.<\/p><\/div>\n

Their is nothing to learn from or enjoy with this movie. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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