On the movie-rating site rotten tomatoes, it received rave reviews. Indeed, I've watched a third of it and still don't know what the motives of the male protagonist's actions are. However, this kind of film thinking about death and redemption is very suitable for my taste, so I watched it all the way, and I was very moved.
The name "Seven Pounds" is said to come from "The Merchant of Venice". According to the Jewish concept of justice, how much is owed is how much should be repaid. Therefore, due to a traffic negligence that caused the death of seven people, the protagonist Tim is now looking for seven good people to save them. life, complete self-redemption. A life journey oriented towards suicide, but beautiful because of love and understanding. Using one person's body and life to save seven people who need organ transplants or help, ordinary people's notions are no longer applicable to such behavior. What we need is approach beyond common sense.
There are a lot of flashes in the film, but the ones I remember most are people's eyes, Tim's eyes, Emily's eyes, Ezra's repeated bright eyes, and a lot of tears. The most disadvantaged people is not just fragile because of no resources, but because of the lack of social relationships which could give them love and care. So, Emily Posa (Heart), Ezra Turner (Eyes), Ben Thomas (One of his lungs), Holly (Right half of liver), George Ristuccia (A Kidney), Nicholas (Bone marrow) and Connie ( House) is not only the poor, the sick, the women and children who have been subjected to domestic violence, the dying elderly, but also the people who have been forgotten by society and are in dire need of help.
A just country can at most achieve universal medical insurance and welfare assistance. For a good life, people need more love and care than this. Of course, the latter is not the obligation of national politics, but more of a civil society or religious mission. Therefore, the touching part of this film is that both principles of justice and love are reflected. The justice here is the justice of punishment that the protagonist automatically undertakes, that is, life for life, but because there is a process of finding a replacement for life, this beautiful process becomes vivid because of the display of family, love and friendship, so the film seems to be Desperate and sad and touching. Will Smith's performance is very apt. Emily's phone call to Tim in the hospital vividly expressed the fear of being alone in the face of death threats and not being able to talk to anyone; the desperation of an old woman in the hospital unable to yell; and Emily and Tim embracing and crying scene, highlighting the importance of language, communication, understanding and love again and again. Even though Tim finally got Emily's love, he chose to commit suicide, chose to put the principle of life over personal love, and was stabbed to death by the jellyfish that had fascinated him since childhood. The most beautiful and deadliest creature, is it a jellyfish or a human?
At the end of the film, Emily and Ezra meet, Tim's heart beats in Emily's chest, and Tim sees the world again through Ezra's eyes. Death, which I have never understood, seems to understand a little here. Death here has fear and despair, but it is mixed with love and hope of new life. It is a transmission of life and meaning.
A pastor friend once told me about one summer he was practicing at a convent in Arizona. One morning, a family of Indians came, and they sat there for a long time, and suddenly said, Can you bury our grandfather? He was shocked, but agreed immediately. When he recalled the past, he said, "These simple people don't say how are you as an opening statement, their needs are so urgent, just because you are a pastor, they put the sanctity of life on you. , I don't think I can betray this trust."
We are not pastors, we may not have religious beliefs, but I think we should be good listeners when the friends around us need them, because the often fragile hearts of human beings need love the most. appease.
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