1 Plan
Tim, since from it after seven seconds, everything changed. His life was completely turned upside down, and he can never go back. Because the original life itself has been destroyed. Along with his family, wife, happiness, peace, hope... all buried. Moreover, this destruction is irreversible.
For a long time, he was in a state of dazed chaos, like a boundless dust. Finally one day, he suddenly became enlightened. He knew what he was supposed to do, and he knew what the end point was. He planned his own path, and the next time was just a countdown.
The beginning of the movie is rather confusing. Through the screen, we see a melancholy Tim swimming in the sea and ashore. He was alone and meditative in his seaside villa. He then called to humiliate a blind meat salesman by saying some very mean things. After dropping the phone, he looked in pain, and suddenly repeated a personal name so loudly that he lost control of his chair and slammed it on the coffee table.
Walking out of his room, he seemed to be collecting other people's information everywhere, or spying on other people's information. He didn't seem to be malicious, but he didn't reveal any obvious purpose, making it hard to guess.
I am very grateful for those wrong story introductions, which prevented me from piecing together the whole face of the story, so that I always pursued it with doubts.
When the mystery was slowly revealed, we finally learned that the names Tim shouted were the names of people who died in a car accident. He was overwhelmed by these seven names every day. He was constantly reminding himself that he had to do something to make amends for his sins and ease his pain.
Because of the deprivation of seven lives, he decided to help the seven living people in this world.
He gave his seaside villa to a mother of two abused by her boyfriend to help her get a new life;
he donated one of his lungs to his younger brother
who had lung cancer; his bone marrow was donated to a man with leukemia boy.
His right liver was donated to a middle-aged black woman; one of
his kidneys was donated to a hockey coach, a father of three;
and two...the last two he helped. After his death, they obtained his heart and corneas, respectively.
For redemption, he gave his entire body, mind, and life.
In the film, the first person Tim helps is a Hispanic mother of two who is suffering from domestic violence by her cohabiting boyfriend. But she didn't dare to leave, for fear that the man was afraid to death. Tim told her she could reach him when she needed it. So, one night she escaped with the child, covered in scars. He gave her a key and presented her with a seaside villa that used to be his own home.
Since then, the young mother, with her two children, can live a safe life free from violence.
The sea breeze blew the gauze curtains of the windows, bringing fresh and refreshing air. The young mother stood at the window looking out at the sea, filled with incredible new-born joy. At the same time, the hearts of the audience are also full of surprise and doubts.
why? Why did he do this?
Now, of course we know. But in the movie, it all unfolds in flashbacks. It was not until after Tim's death that his younger brother finally revealed the reasons and motives for Tim's actions.
A year after the car accident, his younger brother had lung cancer and needed a double lung transplant. Of course, he could only give one lung, but from that moment on, a plan formed in his mind.
He has nothing, no joy in life, is full of wounds, his inner pain cannot be cured, and guilt and self-blame have always haunted him like a poisonous snake.
It is much harder for him to live like this than to die.
But worthless death is useless and a complete waste!
What else can you do with this wreckage? He must have been asking himself this question over and over again.
Then, through this organ transplant operation, he suddenly discovered that this lingering body has its own value and can help other people who are in deep pain.
He felt like he had finally found something worth doing. He would make his own suicide seem more meaningful.
So he made such a plan, and unswervingly implemented it gradually.
He collects other people's information everywhere, but to select suitable aid objects. He has delimited the scope of the recipients, but he has to carefully examine and select them himself, so as not to give the opportunity to someone who is not worthy by mistake.
He interviewed them, provoked, poked, but a temptation. After all, his gift is too precious, and there is absolutely no second chance.
Things went smoothly according to plan, except for a dishonest doctor who pretended to be a good guy... Fortunately, he saw the doctor's true colors in time and stopped the plan.
Tim's call to the blind man was part of his plan. He said a lot of nasty things, disguised himself as a racist and a crazy abuser, just trying to test the character of the blind. The blind man stood the test, and he listened to Ben's abuse in silence, never provoked. At the worst part, the blind man just said goodbye politely and cut off the phone.
Hanging up, Tim knew he had found the right person.
2, accidentally
organ after another was cut off, his vitality is gradually shrinking. But he remained unwavering.
Wouldn't it be a beautiful thing to let your own body, which is already overwhelmed by guilt, be reborn in someone else's body? Tim has no doubts about this.
But things took a little surprise. When Tim approached the woman with a serious heart condition, he gradually became attracted... which was beyond his expectations.
Tim chose her, and for good reason.
The woman had a serious heart attack, and her blood type was rare, so the chances of a successful pairing were slim. Without a heart transplant, she would surely die.
And she was so young...she shouldn't have died.
In the process of contact, Tim gradually understood her strong and fragile heart, and it was not easy for her to face the disease and bear the financial pressure independently. She is optimistic and open-minded, beautiful and helpless. All of this touched Tim's heart deeply.
When she had another heart attack and passed out and woke up in the hospital at night, she called Tim and told him she was scared and he came to her bed and stayed with her all night.
The two sick bodies and minds also know that they have no future and will not survive the next month, but they are strangely able to feel each other's pain and comfort each other.
She was indeed what he was looking for, and his dark life was gradually revealed by her presence.
He fell in love with her, and for the first time he wanted to live and live with her. But at the same time he knew very well that she would die soon without his heart.
If he lives, she can only die; only if he dies, she can live!
Fate is so ridiculous and ruthless!
A man who wants to die, why should he put a ray of light at the end of his life? A little warmth? But this elusive and unattainable benefit reflects his fate, which is even more tragic and cruel!
On the night of their first physical union, Tim quietly left the bed and ran to the hospital in the night rain, just to ask the doctor: What are the chances of her heart getting a donor?
When he heard the doctor's hesitant answer, he was enlightened. He went straight out into the rain without hesitation.
If two can only live one, he has only one choice. An early choice!
That night, he ended his life in a peculiar way: biting his arm with one of the world's most poisonous jellyfish. This method is very, very painful and ends very quickly and irrevocably. Before putting in the jellyfish, he called 911 to have someone come to his rescue. Then he sat in a bathtub full of ice cubes, just because he knew that he would die before the ambulance, and his internal organs could not rot, and he would use his heart to save the woman he loved...
A heart stopped beating, in exchange for a woman's new life. His cornea also continued to live in the eyes of a kind man. So, Tim can't say to leave...
At the end of the film, the woman comes to the blind man who has regained his sight and stares into his eyes for a long time. Those black eyes that were once full of melancholy are now calm.
The blind man was a little confused when the woman looked at him like this. Later, he smiled slowly and said, you must be Emily... The
woman wept and nodded.
Blind quiet looked at her and said, glad to see you ......
3 on the grounds
motivation on Tim to do these things, there are many online reviews, some people say, this is for atonement, and said it was too perfect Western Lei Feng I don't agree with the story of my uncle doing good deeds.
The setting of the story is reasonable. Just imagine, how would you live if, because of your own negligence, you accidentally killed the person you love most in the world, as well as 6 other innocent people? How else can you live? Wouldn't you change something about it? what to do?
So he has motivation. This is completely different from Lei Feng.
So, is Tim atonement? At first, I thought so too, but if that's the case, every time Tim saves, his pain is a little less. But in fact, after watching the whole movie and saving so many people, he is still suffering, nightmares, guilt, depression, and the darkness in his heart has not improved at all.
A mistake is a mistake, and sometimes a big mistake has been made and cannot be undone at all. So, even if Tim gave his entire body to someone else, how would the deceased benefit? The object of his atonement does not exist in this world, who does he seek to atone for? So, in fact, no matter what he did, it was useless! Since the deceased cannot be compensated, cannot be known, and cannot be forgiven, the atonement cannot be established.
So it seems to me that Tim's whole plan isn't for redemption, it's for an orderly death. Because for him, survival is just a long torment and torment, and only death can end all this. It's just that he didn't want to die worthless. He's going to do something good with what little he has left.
He wants to find some value and meaning for his own death. that is it.
When donating the kidney, the ice hockey coach asked him, why did he choose me? Tim said, because you are a good person, you are a good person who can control himself without anyone watching.
A good person is a good person, and it is the same whether or not someone is watching. Tim chose to help those in distress based on this standard, so he disguised himself as people of various identities and attacked from the sidelines, to see the true colors of these people, not the performances in front of them.
Tim himself, why is he not such a person!
He could totally change places, find a place at the end of the world, where no one knew him, and start from scratch. He was well educated, young and handsome, and it was not difficult to find a job or a woman. With a little less conscience, he wouldn't have to die at all.
But he just couldn't get past his conscience.
Even if he fled to the ends of the earth, he still couldn't escape the harsh condemnation of his conscience. He still couldn't escape the dark heart.
So, he has no choice.
Not for the gratitude of others (when Tim gave a battered woman a villa, telling her to never try to find him); not for heaven (Christian teaching says suicide cannot go to heaven. In Hamlet, Olivia It is because of suicide that even Christian graves cannot be buried); not even to be forgiven (no matter how much he does, he will never get rid of his guilt, because the dead can never come back to life). He doesn't want anything, he just wants a peaceful sleep.
After watching the movie, I thought that although Tim survived the car accident, he was actually a walking dead. He just outlived those who died in car accidents.
And these days, he lived in such pain!
So surviving, is it Tim's luck? Or unfortunate?
Later, I answered myself: For Tim, of course, it was a misfortune, but for those who benefited, Tim's survival was the greatest luck in their life.
At this point, the gifts that Tim gave them were throbbing alive inside them, reminding them how to live each day gratefully. For Tim, he is not grateful, but he is grateful. Because of his death, it's better for others to survive, I guess, that's the meaning of death that Tim is looking for, right? Finally, he finally got his wish. So this story is not entirely tragic.
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