Director: Gabriele Muccino. Run time: minutes. It's obvious this is a man with a lot of baggage, and we get the sense he's attempting to be an earthly angel -- or, as the opening lines suggest, a sacrificial lamb. Odds are, he's not a creepy stalker with dastardly intentions, otherwise he wouldn't be played by Will Smith, America's movie-star sweetheart, or the subject of a mainstream film released during the holiday season.
We see Ben flashing a big smile and an IRS badge so he can get into strangers' houses, and then proceeds to channel Mary Worth, asking them intensely personal questions and meddling with their lives. He's looking for good people with, we assume, serious medical conditions, because he hangs around hospitals and retirement homes. It's within the heavy-handed nature of this film that the woman with the literally broken heart will be the subject of Ben's romantic interest -- and follows Hollywood protocol that the two most attractive people in the movie must fall in love.
Emily is on the transplant list and can barely walk her monster of a Great Dane without collapsing. You'd think sex would be verboten, but we're not supposed to ask that question. The problem isn't Smith or Dawson, who exhibit some palpable chemistry, and give performances sincere enough to stave off our alienation.
He used this inspiration to write a fantastic script. Despite the movie's aesthetic qualities, numerous ethical issues kept running through my mind as I watched. Seven Pounds is a great example of how the theoretical discipline of ethics leads to practical implications.
As a way of getting to the ethical subtext of Seven Pounds , I will pose five questions that deserve answers. The purpose is not to wholly provide the answers to the questions but rather to provoke thought about significant ethical issues that affect everyday living.
Question 1: How do you determine a good person? The first question arose because of a seemingly trivial conversation between Tim and George the hockey coach. You may not know it but people are watching you. Implicit in these claims are an appeal to some standard. One can recognize something bad if they have some idea about what is good. The movie's writing team seems to be drawing on a shared intuition--an intuition that ethical theory attempts to understand.
One of the most hotly debated issues in modern ethics is evolutionary ethics. This viewpoint argues that natural selection has instilled humans with the notions of right and wrong. These notions can be explained via neo-Darwinian evolution. Evolutionary ethics places altruism into two main categories: kin selection and reciprocal altruism.
The former is an evolutionary mechanism in which an individual or organism adjusts their behavior commits acts of altruism in order to help kin. The latter is when an individual or organism is altruistic towards another with the expectation of the act being reciprocated in the future. If Tim knew humans would not survive or the people receiving his organs would die he would not have given the organs because he was doing all of this to have people think of him as a good person who saved seven lives and wanted people to know about it.
If everyone would die Tim would have acted differently and not undermined his life by death. But if he knew there would be a different outcome he would haveve tried another way to make meaning. The last point is that Tim acted in a way for death to undermine life which also the reasoning behind it agrees with Aristotelian life. It agrees because him dying to donate organs is intrinsically good. Lastly his actions agree with Aristotle because the highest good is when our final purpose is happiness.
For Tim killing himself was his final purpose and gave him happiness because he could be with his wife and he felt good about his decision to help with seven people. Within the scene Tim is trying to find meaning in his life. It shows he is trying to see if Ezra is the right candidate for his eyes. Tim does that by trying to aggravate Ezra any way possible to get Ezra upset and as a result to get Ezra to challenge back but instead nothing happens and Ezra hangs up. Tim cries at the end because he knew what he did was wrong but they also were tears of joy because as a result he found meaning in his death.
Tim did this whole phone call because he knew now that his eyes would be going to the most genuine person and not a random person. Now it gave Tim meaning to his life that he has a purpose and meaning to give his eyes to Ezra instead of not donating them at all.
Scene Analysis : Within the scene Tim is trying to find meaning in his life.
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