Merchant of Venice

Will Smith’s new movie, Seven Pounds, is a story so cryptic that any sort of synopsis would destroy the mystery which the film must remain shrouded in. Instead, as a descriptive, Smith refers to the Shakespearean line from The Merchant of Venice which inspired this tale of a man in search of seven people whose lives he can choose to change: “These griefs and losses have so bated me, that I shall hardly spare a pound of flesh to-morrow to my bloody creditor. Pray God, come to see me pay his debt, and then I care not!”