Today's recommended film is Seven Pounds, a feature film starring Will Smith. This movie has been lying in my list for several years, but fortunately it has not been forgotten, because this movie has made me feel the vitality of life for a long time. Sigh: Ratings are not so easy, high scores have a reason for it!
The first half of the film is rhythmic, and the second half is full of tension. There is no preview of the content summary, resulting in the first half of the film from time to time interjection and complicated preparation, naturally making people feel dull. Until the last 20 minutes, the truth was slowly revealed, and it was like a tear gland explosion.
As adults, we find that the world is cruel, and we can destroy other people and other things consciously or unconsciously at any time, and we are also destroying them at any time.
"In 7 days, God created the world, and in 7 seconds, I destroyed my own world." The male protagonist summed up this way, what kind of story happened?
Will Smith appears as Ben Thomas, a tax collector at the IRS, who looks calm but seems to have a huge sadness in his eyes.
Ben first sets fire on a vegan beef salesman who is blind and whom Ben does everything he can to insult him.
Ben then approached Emily, a woman with congenital heart disease, whose tax records were problematic.
Ben visited some other people and helped himself more or less.
Ben went to his friends and reminded them of a plan between them, which laid a very important foreshadowing, what is Ben's plan?
Ben then rented a room at the motel and expected to stay for two weeks.
He works and lives in his room, and raises jellyfish and fish.
Jellyfish was a favorite of Ben's youth, and jellyfish are actually very deadly, but in his opinion, "it is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen".
Obviously, there must be some story between Ben and a few strangers. I'd like to talk about two of them, Connie and emily mentioned above.
Ben, through the Department of Child Safety, The Family Services department worker Holly, Holly introduced him to a woman named Connie.
Connie has been abused by her boyfriend for a long time, has two children, and her life is very painful. Ben came to the door to help at first and was kicked away. Connie later called Ben for help.
Ben helped her as promised and encouraged Connie to move to a new life.
He even gave his seaside house to Connie and her two children free of charge.
Ben encouraged her to live well. A seaside house in the sun, an incredible but real new life, is really wonderful.
Let's look at Emily's story.
It was previously stated that Emily had congenital heart disease, so she had to be hospitalized from time to time, and if a suitable donor did not show up, she would not have much time.
One day in the hospital, Emily called Ben and they talked for a long time. Emily asked, "Have you ever thought about death, Ben?" ”
Ben sneaks to the hospital, confronts the sleeping Emily, and honestly tells his answer.
As they communicate more and more, the two become more familiar, and Ben is impressed by Emily's sense of survival and passion for life.
Ben even sneaked into Emily's studio one night to fix her old-fashioned Heidelberg windmill. Emily's dog was with him all the time, which was very touching.
Ben and Emily are in love, can this love bring miracles?
On a crucial day, Ben's brother appeared, or rather, the real Ben appeared.
I remember Ben telling Emily a story about a boy named Tim, who graduated from MIT and dreamed of becoming an engineer in the field of aeronautics, and that boy was actually him. Tim briefly borrowed his brother Ben's name and occupation to work on his grand plan.
He was once a spirited man, engaged in a career he loved, and had a happy little family, and because of his negligence, all this was ruined, and he also took 7 innocent lives as a funeral.
Tim wants redemption, he has to pay off his debts, and he has to give back 7 other people. That's his plan, that's where the movie name Seven Pounds comes from.
What a sensitive and kind heart Tim has, and the people he chooses are "people who need help but don't ask for help because they don't ask for help", because he is such a person, his brother calls, Tim always says that he is fine.
In fact, behind every "I'm fine", perhaps desperate and silent cry for help, and he did not want to make his own rescue a burden for others.
There are many paths to self-redemption, and the good thing about this film is that this film does not exaggerate and glorify Tim's choice of suicide, but in detail allows us to see why he chose so much, really tangled and swayed, and painfully made up his mind.
After truly experiencing the destruction of the ego world, I realized how difficult and heavy the two words of vibration were, and then I gradually understood Shakespeare's phrase "To be or not to be, that's a question".
I admire the vigorous vitality, and I pity the weakening vitality in some dim moments.
Some desperate people choose to take revenge on society, while others desperately create hope in despair. What is touching is that there are always such people, for various reasons unfortunately thrown on the side of the abyss of humanity, but still run to the sun, as if to remind people that despite the hardships, they are worth living.