Alcohol Abuse Advice

This suite was created at kind request of @aprileve411. Thank you very much! :-) Pay it Forward is a utopian film. It argues for a better world and brings a glimmer of hope that seems to respond to the pessimism of American Beauty. The comparison is not innocuous as both of these films were produced by Dreamworks, feature Kevin Spacey as a main character, and propose an offbeat approach to American society. Add young Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense) and you have the assurance that solid casting will be able to support this original story. Kevin Spacey plays a schoolteacher whose assignment to taking action that will make the world a better place is taken to heart by his most obstinate student (Osment). The child has the idea of a pyramid where each person will help three other people to change something that he or she cannot do on their own; each person would then help another three people and so on. The film develops around the ramifications of the child’s pyramid in parallel with the relationship that is struck up between his mother (Helen Hunt) and his teacher. The idea of the film is original and slightly provocative. Though this gratuitous generosity is shocking in a world obsessed by profit (confirmed by the success of TV shows like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and not Who Wants To Be A Do-gooder?), it also thumbs its nose at the ultimate symbol of greed: pyramid schemes. These structures, also known under the moniker MLM (Multi-Level Marketing), are a sort of …
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