Once in a while, comes along a movie that bludgeons your conscience into some serious self-questioning. A movie that questions your sense of morality and sincerity. One that explores the extent of which one is willing to go, to seek repentance. Where sorry is portrayed as anything but a simple word.
Seven Pounds. Its an extremely simple movie(really, its like reading "who moved my cheese") which injects a potent shock to a dulled out and routined (there is no such word i know, but you get what i mean) existence. To be honest, I really do not know what exactly or rather how exactly i feel about this movie. I need time for the full essence of the movie to sink in. All the movies that i needed time to ingest ended up disturbing me quite badly. I guess Seven Pounds is heading in that same direction.
The movie can summarised in two questions.
To which extent will you go to repent?
Is there any purpose to your life ?......besides merely existing to get the degree, the dream job, the dream girl, the HDB flat, the car, the vacation ......the lifelong membership with CPF......you know what i mean....
3 comments:
You watched it already??????
yup.. i really am not sure whether its a good movie or not.. coz i dunno how to classify it.. i can relate to certain elements but i feel other elements are abit surreal. the movie has lots of cancelling out factors. somehow it neutralises itself.
often in life,you get people who either abuses the word sorry and use it like an everyday adjective.
OR
u people who simply choke on the word.
people often think that saying sorry puts an end to the mistake they have committed.
how often do we repent for the mistake we have committed? for the hurt we have caused?
Repentance is to repent from the heart, to train the heart into obedience and to make a firm resolution never to commit the sin again.
"Except those who repent, have faith and good deeds, those HE will charge their sins for good deeds. Certainly HE is most forgiving and merciful."
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