When at a friends house, at 2 o'clock in the morning we decided to sit back and watch a movie for a couple of hours. Its something we do every time we're both around his place. We usually watch it at a ridiculous time, then give our thoughts at the end of the film then decide we might need sleep. One friday we decided to watch Seven Pounds.
Seven Pounds features Will Smith who stars as the man with a heavy burden. Through flashbacks throughout the film we learn that whilst driving with his wife he has an accident on the road and crashes into a camper van with 6 people inside. The 6 people are killed in the crash as well as his wife.
Throughout the film Tim Thomas, Will's character, is in a bid of redemption and aims to save the life's of 7 people. This is where the title of the film makes more sense. He ends up donating certain organs to good people to help save them. He does encounter a love interest in the film who is to be one of the characters to be saved. There is a very dramatic ending to the film which i wont spoil how it turns out but the first scene in this film shows the ending climax. Its just a case of how the film gets there that makes this film.
I overall thought it was a great film. It showed a strong message of how far someone will go to redeem themselves of a fault. I thought it was very well made too, Wills performance was a different one to his usual roles and I thought he did a very good job, and it was good technically too. There was a shot that I would actually plan to use in my own film if I ever made a proper one: When Tim is walking through the hospital for the first time the camera is following him walking through the hospital and looking just over his shoulder. The thing that made this shot interesting is that everything besides the back of his head is blurred, so you get the feel that Tim is in his own world at the moment, that everything around him did exist but didn't stand out for him.
Its a shame though because it got a a fair few negative reviews from the site Rotten Tomatoes but to be honest in my opinion i dint think Rotten Tomatoes is any good. They get reviews mixed around they say good films are bad and that bad films are good. Their reviews just don't do it for me its just a bunch of snobby people saying big words but don't really have much to say about why a film is bad.
But overall i enjoyed it, its a very good film I think with some really gripping ideologies. I personally enjoyed watching it and felt moved. Ignore the reviews it did get, its not deserving of those.
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