Review: Will

Will by Will Smith
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Hooter: Why did Will Smith do what he did at the Oscars? The answer lies in this book.

What drives Will? An autobiographical account provides you a background of the rough childhood to rough stardom that awaits him from his perspective. When you are unhappy that you are not rich, not famous or not wanted by the other sex, you still have hope that getting one of them will get the others. When you have them all and are unhappy - what do you do? Will deals with that dilemma too of having it all. I am a big fan of books but this is one book you have to go for the audiobook narrated by Will Smith himself because as a rap artist - that elemnt comes across authentic in this form.

Hard work, opportunities and luck in equal measure but he makes the most of it and indeed iterates the same when he would have dumped a script of himself thinking it was too Hollywood with a ice bagger kid going to win a grammy to being a top grosser Hollywood / International star.

No doubt he is a great performer and he continues that performance with the narration of his story along with painting his vulneribilities to make sure he doesn't come across as a boastful self centred egoist. Going back to what happened at the oscars, I think his fear of being painted a coward in the eyes of the women he loves thanks to childhood trauma could explain those inexplicible actions.


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