Over Christmas I saw the movie Seven Pounds and read Josh Hamilton's book. They were both very interesting and I want to share with you what I thought of them. I will not spoil the movie without a warning.
"Seven Pounds"
This movie, starring Will Smith, is a very well-made movie and the acting, led by Smith, was phenomenal. Just like we have come to expect from Will Smith, you can feel his devotion and love for making a character come to life. I would be shocked if this movie did not win several awards for acting, music, story, etc. etc. etc. Despite all this positive stuff the movie can best be described as an great awful movie because the message it sends is completly wrong.
SPOILER ALERT (If you want to see the movie scroll down to after the italicized words)!
The premise of the movie is quite simple. A very successful and almost addictatevly devoted aerospace engineer (Smith) is driving with his wife while trying to do work via his cell phone. This distraction causes him to drift into the oncoming traffic lane and cause a wreck killing seven people, including his wife and several strangers. Understandable so Smith is distraught over the deaths and devoted the rest of his life to finding a way to save the lives of seven strangers who he deemed to be good people. Sounds good so far right, well he does this by quitting his aeronautical job and posing as a IRS auditor. In this role he is able to find several people, get to know them, and determine if they have earned the right to be saved. For example, he donated bone marrow to one boy and part of his liver to a woman. When Smith gets down to the final two people to change the lives of it he must find a heart from a person with a rare blood type to save the woman he has fallen in love with and find eyes to change the live of a blind man. Instead of using connections, and his broad knowledge of science he commits suicide by filling a bath tub with ice water and getting in it with a jellyfish which until the final scene was a pet in his hotel room. Before committing suicide he made all the arrangements to donate his heart to the woman and his eyes to the blind man......Like I said I great awful movie.
NO MORE SPOILOR'S
Josh Hamilton: Beyond Belief
I got this book for Christmas and read it in about a week which is very impressive, particularly so because I ussually read fiction books. As a Christian and sports fan this book appealed to me for obvious reasons but I don't ussually read books in this catogory, in fact I can think of two:
Joe Gibbs: Racing to Win
Josh Hamilton: Beyond Belief
In this book Hamilton reveals an amazing testimony of his life and acceptance of Christ. As many people know Josh Hamilton struggled with drug addiction for many years, even addiction to crack, which many say is the drug you don't come back from, but Josh Hamilton did. The book tells his story of his rise to fame as the number draft pick in 1999, his fall completly out of baseball and his slow steady recovery and eventual return to baseball concluding the story with a insiders prespective on his amazing run at the 2008 Home Run Derby in Yankee Stadium. This book is will help those who have never dealt with drugs in anyway understand the power it holds on life, It will help those who have told friends and family, "so just stop," understand why its not that simple, and Hamilton story already has helped other get on the road to recovery.
This is a great book.
In short, don't spend your money and time at "Seven Pounds" instead use your money and time to buy and read "Josh Hamilton: Beyond Belief."
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