Seven Pounds
I've always thought Will Smith was slanting towards a deeper view on life in the movies that he's recently acting in. Rather than the action flicks or sometimes comedies. But if the Pursuit of Happyness was of any judge, I hadn't thought he did it very well. Or it could be the director's problem. I don't know.
But Seven Pounds caught me totally off guard.
Although I kind of wish the directing wasn't made this way because I'm not someone who can remember elements of a movie clearly. But I guess it got its effect.
I mean, the ending wasn't unexpected. And towards the middle, when he started to have flashbacks of what happened, one already gets a feeling of what he's intending to do, what the movie's building up towards. But the ending....
It still blew me away.
Or it could just be that I'm susceptible to these tearjerking shows.
But gosh...it all became clear in the end. And it was nice. Sad, but nice. As all these kind of shows are.
I liked the last scene. Emily was looking at Erza, at Tim's eyes inside Erza, and somehow Erza just knew who Emily was, that what had happened to him had happened to her too. And then they hugged, and cried, and well.
Well.
On a tangent, I remember from the Name of the Wind, this phrase that I didn't understand: the cutflower sound of a man waiting to die. I had thought that Kvothe was waiting for someone to find him and kill him, but now I realize the author was actually saying he's going to commit suicide.
Dunno why I didn't see that before. And I can't believe that because of that the phrase has been swimming around in my mind ever since I read that book. Which I think was during September last year? The 7-day outfield in which in the end, all we ever did was to line up along (crap i forgot the name) some axis near some reservoir, and shoot at our own forces.
Yeah well like I said, the army's fun(ny) in many ways.
Anyway, Seven Pounds was surprisingly good. The sobering knowledge that Tim is gonna die, that it's his only recourse, even though you wish it weren't so...
Well. Pretty emotional movie, I'd say. And it definitely beats the pursuit of happyness hands down.
But Seven Pounds caught me totally off guard.
Although I kind of wish the directing wasn't made this way because I'm not someone who can remember elements of a movie clearly. But I guess it got its effect.
I mean, the ending wasn't unexpected. And towards the middle, when he started to have flashbacks of what happened, one already gets a feeling of what he's intending to do, what the movie's building up towards. But the ending....
It still blew me away.
Or it could just be that I'm susceptible to these tearjerking shows.
But gosh...it all became clear in the end. And it was nice. Sad, but nice. As all these kind of shows are.
I liked the last scene. Emily was looking at Erza, at Tim's eyes inside Erza, and somehow Erza just knew who Emily was, that what had happened to him had happened to her too. And then they hugged, and cried, and well.
Well.
On a tangent, I remember from the Name of the Wind, this phrase that I didn't understand: the cutflower sound of a man waiting to die. I had thought that Kvothe was waiting for someone to find him and kill him, but now I realize the author was actually saying he's going to commit suicide.
Dunno why I didn't see that before. And I can't believe that because of that the phrase has been swimming around in my mind ever since I read that book. Which I think was during September last year? The 7-day outfield in which in the end, all we ever did was to line up along (crap i forgot the name) some axis near some reservoir, and shoot at our own forces.
Yeah well like I said, the army's fun(ny) in many ways.
Anyway, Seven Pounds was surprisingly good. The sobering knowledge that Tim is gonna die, that it's his only recourse, even though you wish it weren't so...
Well. Pretty emotional movie, I'd say. And it definitely beats the pursuit of happyness hands down.
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