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  Tuesday, Jan 20, 2009 12:54PM / Standard Entry / Movies / Members only
  

  I spent a good deal of my Winter Solstice outside with a friend and we watched a movie - Seven Pounds. Breat movie. Tragic. Shed a few teas towards the end. And the last scene where the ex-blind meets ex-heart failure was really well done. As if saying "eyes are the windows to your heart", or something akin to that. As if all truth is unraveled.

  The plot was really well thought out. The character "Tim" was a genius. He basically forced everyone to overlook his (successful) attempt of suicide, to continue living with a part of him in themselves. His brother The child. The abused mother. The woman working at family services. The hockey coach. The vegan who worked as a meat salesman. However, I couldn't count the seventh. Was it the old woman at the beginning of the movie who took a shower? Or was it the man whom he punnished by not giving him a second chance?

  The actual idea... though: he took seven lives in seven seconds - one of which was his lover. He commits suicide in order to repent for the accident and in return, saves seven(?) lives. Perhaps the last person would be himself, as he releases himself from this burden.

  A part that I found conflicting was the fact that he had sex with the woman whom he claimed he loves before he commits suicide. To join his old, dead lover. There's something about that whichscreams selfishness, you know? But I guess everyone has their own guilty pleasure.

  Another part hat I found iffy was the chances of finding a donor with the same 'special' bloodtype is around 3-5%. But Tim (Will Smith) found a dying woman with the same blood in need of a heart. Her body didn't reject the heart. This is a bit too convenient. Like a fictional story, nearly.

  Either way. A good movie. I would definitely recommend it.

  PS: I asked my dad (a family physician) whether a heart, with all the blood inside, has the mass of seven pounds. And he replied that it shouldn't. Perhaps the title kind of suggests a "heavy hearted" emotion? I feel the weight as the ending nears.

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