From Death comes Life
by Pat Darnell and the Herd
This movie, Seven Pounds, reaches Apogee at a time when many of you are in the midst of renewing your driver's license. You might be contemplating the question on your renewal form: "Do you want to donate your organs for organ transplant?"
Columbia Pictures uses this simple question to expand contemplation moments into a very long commercial in favor of donating one's [remember: after death and do not try this at home] organs; simultaneously turning Seven Pounds into nearly 70 million dollars, at Box Offices for themselves.
Rated: PG-13 for thematic material, some disturbing content and a scene of sensuality. Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Dec 19, 2008 Wide | Box Office: $69,951,824
Will Smith, who is best known for acting a little over the top, has been given his best role yet, we think. That is because his seven pounds is eventually multiplied exponentially, to become a pianist, a graphic artist, a beloved coach, a normal child, a chorus of gifted children singers, and among others a tear jerking film, so the combined energies is greater than the sum of the parts.
On top of all that joy in synergistic evolution, that behavior of the whole system is what diminishes Will Smith's character in an unpredictable way, thankfully. Rosario Dawson, cleverly made up to look sickly from the neck up, captures our hearts so that Smith's behavior is not set separate and apart all others. Smith's acting evokes pathos and his jokes are actually tragic, like they are meant to be. In fact he plays his part of a pre-meditating goodly-heartened, murderer: for his his own demise -- yes suicide, in the shadow of Rosario's character's Great Dane. How does he do it?
During his acting out as organ donor, Smith must still be in exceptional good health in life, since he gives bone
marrow, half his liver, and one of his lungs just before he goes sprinting a mile in the rain to save more organ recipients in fatally ill health. We suppose he gives every organ he can without really experiencing any side effects... and stay alive, eh?"We begin to see a predictable trend in Seven Pounds," said our MooPig Movies Editor, "We call it the Obama Swerve."
"Yes, Smith impersonates his brother while he plans out his own death; pretty much a case of fiction following fact," explained Sonny Bishop, News Desk Chief.
This makes better the part we at MooPig always wait for anxiously in 
movies with Academy Award Winning Actors -- like Will Smith -- as the best part comes in the end when Smith is sliced up and his parts are distributed to deserving transplant recipients.It turns out, blind musician and telemarketing service agent, Woody Harrelson, gets the eyes, so that his blue eyes are made brown, opposite to the "make my brown eyes blue" country song lyric.
Smith's heart goes to Rosario Dawson, and she lives happily ever after, though we think a bit awkwardly, with her Great Dane and her graphics art career condensed into her garage and modest backyard.
"We are not sure yet what the title means..." said the MooPig Cinema Review Editor. "If it means UK dinero, or that the heart weighs seven pounds, we are probably not going to watch the movie again to find out. It's all good."
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