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Wed 3 Jun, 2009 02:01 am
I've recently seen the movie 7 pounds with Will Smith and I found it to be quite a powerful movie. In order to redeem himself for the guilt he feels for killing seven people in a car crash, along with his wife, he begins to to give parts of himself (lung,liver,heart,etc.) to people he feels deserve to live more than he does. What affected me the most is when he gives a women he's recently fell in love with his heart by committing suicide (rather ingeniously with a deadly jellyfish). The women who received his heart also came to love him and through his love found a reason to live. I can't even begin to imagine the ambivalence she feels as she lost her reason for living to ensure she could go on living. While she finds it hard to go on living without him, not going on living would be the greatest insult to him. I guess I'm just wondering what you'd do in this situation if you were her because I'm still not sure what I'd do.
@pinkpanda,
7 pounds sucked. I'm sorry, but 1) it was hard as heck to follow, 2) it was -not- a Will Smith kind of movie, and 3) I didn't like the message.
@Bonaventurian,
What a silly story line,sounds like a very sick joke rather than a philosophical quandary.
@Catchabula,
Will Smith showed some acting chops in this one. His effort had me caring about the outcome. Rosario Dawson or however you spell her name, she is pretty slow placed but has a very pretty voice and energy to listen too. It was over all just ok because of the flow from scene to scene felt scattered.
Final Rating: 7/10
@pinkpanda,
In all honesty I was trying to use this movie to explore the concept of a truly altruistic act, which I only think exists if the individual dies because of there acts. I wrote the post kind of late and didn't get my point across. I feel that Will Smith's character acted completely altruistic because his action of giving his heart didn't give him any self satisfaction or ease his internal guilt but only resulted in him paying the ultimate price. Without the guarantee of some other worldly rewards then he truly sacrificed his own self interest for that of someone else and in such he displayed true altruism.
@pinkpanda,
So under certain circumstances committing suicide is a commendable exercise.Well sorry but i cant condone it for any reason.If you give your life for another under certain circumstances, say in saving someone from a fire, its not the inevitability of the act,your dying, that it is commendable.Why not put an add in the papers for suicidal maniacs to give details of their blood group etc and ask them for donations ?Its bizarre that we are even debating this sick act.
@Bonaventurian,
Bonaventurian;66764 wrote:7 pounds sucked. I'm sorry, but 1) it was hard as heck to follow, 2) it was -not- a Will Smith kind of movie, and 3) I didn't like the message.
If it wasn't a Will Smith kind of movie, wouldn't that be a good thing. There are really not that many good movies that he appeared in. I have been meaning to watch this for a while. Maybe I will watch it tomorrow when I have nothing better to do, and I will post my thoughts afterwards.
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