The one who wants to be born can't be born, and the accident that is not expected to be born is coming, which is more "magic" than the mathematical probability of two strangers meeting as Paul said. Such magic happens in this movie. Paul and his wife Mary, who are engaged in mathematics, separated because of their relationship, and Mary decided to shed the child alone. Later, Paul got a terminal illness such as heart failure. He couldn't share happiness but he could share hardships. Mary didn't give up on him, came back to take care of him, and insisted on having a child. The artificial insemination method left Paul's seed. Although Paul was reluctant, he couldn't refuse, because she was dying and she had a child to accompany Mary, so she wouldn't be too lonely! It's Paul's repayment for Mary's protection of himself! But then everything changed, he received a heart donation and survived. Now that he can survive, and his new heart is firmed up, he can't go against his will and have another child with Mary, who no longer loves him. Mary is out.
Paul went to detectives to track down the heart donor and figured out that his death was due to a car accident. In the car accident, he, Paul's heart donor Michael, and his two daughters died unexpectedly, leaving only his wife Christina. So Paul went to follow Christina. Christina couldn't recover from the grief of the car accident and bereavement, and went back to the old way of taking drugs. Paul couldn't let it go. He approached her and fell in love with her. Did the heart change work, did Paul fall in love with Christina because he had Michael's heart? Knowing the truth, Christina screamed hysterically: What are you doing! You got his heart, you got his wife! They are together. Paul's heart is going to strike again, he can't bear to accept another donation, he wants to kill Jack, the culprit of the car accident, but when he pointed the gun at Jack, he just blew the gun at the grass and rocks beside Jack; When he came to the door to ask Christina to shoot him for relief, watching Jack and Christina scuffle together, Paul shot himself, he died, and then Christina became pregnant with Paul's child. The accidental arrival of this life, together with the inevitable end of life, has always been a topic that everyone cannot avoid. The name of the movie 21 grams comes from the experiment of a pseudo-scientist, who claims that when people die, they lose weight 21 gram, which is the weight of the soul. It's so real!
The main thread of the film is another accident - a car accident. Jack was fired from his boss because of his tattoos and his history of being in prison. On his birthday, he drove home in a dejected mood and accidentally killed Michael and his two daughters. Jack had a chance to save one of the girls, but he escaped. Jack is a prisoner under the influence of a priest, and now he "religiously" believes in the user Jesus. When his son bullied his younger daughter, he taught her daughter "If someone hits your right cheek, please put your left cheek up", which is "God's teaching" (as if my husband said the same to me, but My reaction was the same label that Jack's wife used to listen to his pre-meal prayer and thank the Lord for the food, "I respect your faith, but I thought it was nonsense"). After the accident, Jack couldn't forgive himself and couldn't let go. He turned himself in, left the family after being released from prison and lived a life of self-imposed exile.
The story is basically finished here, the movie is not shot like this. The movie divides the story into many paragraphs, then completely disrupts the sequence and presents it to the audience, allowing the audience to put the story together in their own minds. Some viewers lamented that the technology is too good, and some viewers disdain the director's fancy editing. I feel good, because the story is very logical, and basically every paragraph can be figured out in the 1st or 2nd shot. But it doesn't affect me that it's a bad movie. There are too many things the director wants to convey in the movie, about death, life, redemption, and religion. As far as I know, I can only appreciate the last point: Regarding religion, I realized that the director's criticism of religion is not religious belief, but our own forgiveness and letting go. Let it go, you can step over and go to tomorrow. Life goes on. Christina has recovered, and Jack has returned to the family.
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