If you've have had enough of all the action and science fiction films and want to try a completely different feel, why not try watching Collateral Beauty? Let me tell you: this film speak volumes.
Raffi [personification of Time]: "..if love is creation and death is destruction, I'm just the terrain in between. You don't understand time, no one understands time. Einstein was close when he said I was just an illusion."
Howard (played by Will Smith), a successful advertising executive, suffers a great tragedy and begins to questions the universe by writing letters to Love, Time and Death. Things then slowly start falling into place when he starts to receive responses from these letters.
My (spoiler-free) Review:
Will Smith has given his role justice as he portrayed Howard in this film. I am not sure if it will be the same for you guys, but I literally bawled my eyes out as the story completes itself. If you were to take this film seriously and self-reflect, you will feel heavy from the life lessons depicted.
What I like about this film is that it did not only focus on Howard's story alone. Upon watching you'll see new characters introduced and how each of them play a vital role in each of their lives. On a realistic sense, their actions weren't over-exaggerated and one might easily be able to relate based on experience. Every moment in this film was just as equally important to one another.
Yes, this movie falls on drama, but DO NOT judge it that quickly. Some critics might have given negative reviews about this film but I cannot deny what I felt when I watched it. To use one word to describe this film, it would be... beautiful. I felt immediate satisfaction when I reached the end and I love those kind of movies.
Take time and relax. Take a break. Please let me know if you felt the same way I did.
Photos are from IMDB. Link is in the resources.
