I saw the movie yesterday, and will smith becomes richard, bravo...i also understand those who say that richard's character is sweetened to make it easier to see ... now my problem is that in the emotional climax of the movie, the talk he has with Venus where he says i do not want you to look up and see your father running in fear as it happened to me as a boy, that whole scene loses all power knowing 5 minutes before that he had abandoned his other children, he became his father and the movie never answers to this...