{"id":2194,"date":"2008-12-26T20:57:24","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T01:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2008-12-26T20:57:24","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T01:57:24","slug":"seven-pounds-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2008\/12\/26\/seven-pounds-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Pounds&#8211;Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/image\/stars\/35o5.gif\" alt=\"3.5 Stars\" \/><br \/>\nUsually Will Smith makes upbeat movies, either comedies or uplifting dramas like <a href=\"\/fun\/2006\/12\/16\/the-pursuit-of-happyness-sic\/\">The Pursuit of Happyness<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0814314\/\">Seven Pounds<\/a> is different; it&#8217;s rather dark and sad and not everyone is going to like it. It&#8217;s also the sort of movie that tries to hide the real story until near the end, revealing it bit by bit.<\/p>\n<p>Will Smith portrays an IRS agent who clearly isn&#8217;t following the rules. He seems to want to play God, using his position to reward the virtuous and punish the wicked. Also there seems to be something that&#8217;s troubling him, but we don&#8217;t know what it is.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s about all I can say about the premise without giving too much away. This is a powerful, tragic story. It&#8217;s well done, and worth watching if you are up for that sort of thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually Will Smith makes upbeat movies, either comedies or uplifting dramas like The Pursuit of Happyness. Seven Pounds is different; it&#8217;s rather dark and sad and not everyone is going&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2008\/12\/26\/seven-pounds-movie-review\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[231],"class_list":["post-2194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-seven-pounds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions\/2195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}