"God created the world in 7 days, I destroyed myself in 7 seconds", this is Tim's final monologue to the world.
He once had all the conditions for happiness: a healthy body, a beautiful wife, a stable job, a beautiful car, a comfortable villa. Until one time while driving, he made a very common mistake - looking at his mobile phone. In that instant, seven innocent lives, and everything Tim had, was changed.
The Bible says: "Essentially everyone is sinful." In Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice", there is also an allusion to "cutting a pound of flesh to pay off a debt". Presumably, as the only survivor of the car accident, Tim can better understand the mental torture and memory torture of this "crime and punishment". Just like a scene presented in the title, Tim wanders in the endless sea, and the endless loneliness soaks his body.
When someone asked him to evaluate himself, he said: "I don't even deserve the word meaningless, it's true."
After he patiently comforted others, he murmured to himself: "I lied just now. , I think about death every day."
As movie viewers, it is not difficult to guess his ultimate life trajectory... In the world we live in, there are not a few people who choose like Tim. Millions have attempted suicide, of which nearly 1 million have succeeded."
However, to our surprise, on this seemingly dwindling road of no return, Tim made an astonishing decision to give seven kind-hearted people a life-changing gift:
Lungs for his younger brother with lung cancer, liver for Holly from the Social Welfare Department, seaside villa for single mother Connie who was abused by her boyfriend, kidneys for ice hockey coach tortured by dialysis, bone marrow for leukemia child Nicholas , giving corneas to Ezra, a blind customer service specialist, and, of course, the woman he remembers most in his final years - a heart to Emily, who has a congenital heart condition.
This is also the origin of the title "Seven Pounds".
(2) Waves
In order to avoid the inhumanity of the seven-pound "Requiem", he mocked the customer service agent Ezra on the phone, and he tortured Stewart, Emily, and Connie with the identity of the tax collector. He used the "friend's promise" to Forcing his best friend Dan to help him complete his gift-giving plan... Until one day, he found that he had fallen in love with a girl named Emily, whose existence brought her a desire for life , and the sunshine in her heart makes his world no longer like a black and white silent film.
As the episode "Feeling Good" sounded at this moment, "As night falls, fall asleep in peace... The stars are like your eyes, you know how I feel rosin filled... This is a new life, for me , and I'm feeling good."
He rippled like a lake of stagnant hearts, he sat on the grass where they talked together with a childlike smile, and in the basement he repaired her old Heidelberg windmill printing press (which was not only an important tool for her livelihood, but also important evidence of her sense of existence).
Until the nightmare struck again, he thought again of the seven innocent lives he had killed, and the tender eyes and touches of his deceased wife. So, "Tim's Requiem" continued, and Nicholas, the leukemia child, as the fifth lucky person, got Tim's healthy bone marrow.
At this time, Emily's phone call wakes up the tired Tim. Emily, who has not been cooking for many years, cooks for him again. Emily, who has not sang for many years, dances with him in "For Me Formidable". Finally, in front of the printing press that Tim repaired, two kind and lonely people kissed together... When
Emily fell asleep, Tim ran to the hospital in the pouring rain, and asked Blair with anxiety and longing Doctor: "Sorry...I want to ask sorry...about Emily's condition...is there a more optimistic situation possible?"
"The chance of finding a donor with a rare blood type is very low."
" Yes How low, you say very low, after all...Give me a percentage, give me a number."
"Three to five percent...Unfortunately, I also hope it's higher."
(3) Goodbye
Goodbye my best friend Dan, "It's time, I love you."
Goodbye, kind Ezra, "I was on the phone with you a few weeks ago...I was mean and I'm sorry...because I had to be sure I'm sure you're a good man with integrity, kindness, gentleness and self-restraint...I want to give you a gift."
Goodbye, dear Emily, I can't say goodbye to you in person, but I will stay in your heart.
It's all set, Tim is lying in the motel's ice-filled bathtub, the deadly box jellyfish makes him twitch and moan with its stinging venom...
When Emily's heart transplant is successful, the film plays "Have No Fear" ": "I hope there is no more fear in your heart, because we will meet again somewhere. There will always be a place to mend your broken heart and accommodate your tired body... From now on you don't have to walk alone at night, I will give it to you You bless, let the blessing guide you forward, even if you are far away."
Tim, it is difficult for us to use the "great", "negative" or "radical" and other facialized words to simply summarize your seven Requiems . "Suicide" may be condemned as an unforgivable crime, either in traditional social values or in any decent teaching. However, I have noticed the look in your eyes - when you read the list of car accident victims over and over again, when you fall into memory and regret, when you are misunderstood by potential recipients, when you go against your heart again and again When you turn down Emily's love, when you call an ambulance for yourself - the endless sadness and determination, I noticed.
The philosopher Heidegger said that death is "being toward death". He believed that as long as people still died, they would live by the way of living towards death, that is to say, they would always live by the way of "having death" or "being able to die". In the film, you almost silently completed this shocking self-salvation and delivery of goodwill in this way of dying.
Tim, you are not a suicidal person who can be criticized at will, you are not a storyless, meaningless person. As you said to the ice hockey coach, your kindness, "you don't know it yourself, but everyone else sees it."
May you no longer be troubled by the nightmare of your heart, and may the seven lives born because of you be more optimistic, strong and kind in the days to come.
Goodbye, Tim.
Written in March 2014
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