Seven Pounds – of Crap!
What a waste of my time watching this movie… I had such high expectations, and by the end of it all, I felt hugely disrespected. It felt as if the movie maker was trying to force-feed emotions to me through their narrative. The narrative itself being incoherent at best. Having a violin laced melodramatic score at the end of the movie doesn’t make the audience “feel” sad about the main character’s quest to find redemption.
I didn’t care much for Ben’s character… rather, I found him to be pretentious and conceited in his attempt to select people who’re worthy of his organs. I mean – wtf! – many of us are donors by choice but we don’t get to/shouldn’t choose who we help.* "It is within my power to drastically change your circumstances but I don't want to give what you don't deserve..." - *argh!!! that's sort of a slap in the face of every donor. Who are we to decide who deserves what.
It’s a thoroughly unsatisfying movie. No wonder it’s gotten bad reviews from critics, an by no means is it in the same league as Pursuit of Happiness which was an earnestly genuine movie taking the audience through an emotional journey.
agree with every single word you used to describe the movie. Really, waste of time and money!!!!!!!!!!!!! I almost walked out of it!