Post by spina on Jan 9, 2009 2:43:09 GMT
Righty ho.
Seven Pounds is about a man named Ben Thomas. Well at least you think it is, up until halfway through the movie. He worked for an aeronautics company. Now he works for the IRS. Ben seems to have seriously lost it, and spends his days hunting down certain people, claiming to some that they are being audited.
Ben calls Ezra, a telemarketer, who is blind, and insults him. Ezra remains patient and just listens, and doesn't get angry.
Ben meets Stewart Goodman, a retirement home owner/manager, who is being audited. His patients seem to be demoralized,and Stuart explains that he hasn't paid his taxes because he has had an unsuccessful bone marrow transplant and needs a new one. While Stewart is saying all this, Ben looks out the window and notices Stewart's new BMW sports coupe.
He speaks to one of Stewart's patients and discovers he isn't a good man, and he forces her to take medication against her will. Ben then angrily confronts Stewart, and denies an exstension on Stewart's window to pay his taxes.
Ben seeks out Emily Posa, who hasn't also paid her taxes because of medical bills. A friendship forms between them.
Ben talks to his friend Holly, who works in the department of Child services. He says that "she owes him a favor". and she replies that "I'll do anything"
Through Holly, Ben finds Connie, a mum who is beaten by her boyfriend who she refuses to leave. He moves out of his beach house, to a motel, and when she calls him, to say that her boyfriend has beaten her up yet again, he sends her to his old house, which to him was always "a safe haven, a place of peace".
He says to sign the deed, and never try to contact him again.
Ben also meets George Ristuccia, an ice hockey coach, who has helped fund scholarships for kids who really need them. George is on dialysis, and needs a new kidney.
Ben is called by his brother, who asks if he took something when he stayed at his house. Ben replies that he didn't. Later Ben's brother confronts him and says "Tim, you can't just play with people's lives!" and tells Tim that impersonating an IRS agent is a crime, thus revealing that the real Ben Thomas is Tim's brother.
Tim checks into hospital, to give some of his bone marrow to a little boy named Nicholas who needs a transplant. (It is hinted he was going to give it to Stewart but, didn't because he didn't deserve it)
Tim spends more and more time with Emily, who now needs a new heart. She explains that her printing press, which she uses, has broken down, and in the middle of the night, Tim endeavors to fix it, which he does.
When Tim sees Emily's doctor, and the doctor says there is only a 3-5 percent chance that she will find a donor in time, Ben calls his friend Dan and tells him that its time.
Tim goes back to his hotel room, and you see a scene that you saw at the start of a movie again. Tim calls the ambulance to report a suicide, and that he is the victim.
He puts a box jellyfish in the bath, and it stings him in into paralysis, killing Tim.
It is then revealed that Ben was involved in a car accident, where everyone in the accident except him died, as well as the accident being his fault, because he was driving and answering a work text message at the same time. This explains the chanting of the names. He also killed his fiance who was in the car with him.
Then Emily's pager, which was given to her, to notify her of a suitable heart, goes off, and she is given a transplant, from Tim's heart.
Emily is later contacted by the real Ben Thomas, who says that last year, he got sick and needed a lung transplant, which Tim gave him. He believed that it started something in Tim.
Later he also gave part of his liver to Holly, which was the reason for the favor of finding Connie, who Tim gave his house.
He also gave his bone marrow (to Nicholas, the boy) and his kidney (to George) while he was still alive.
Emily finds Ezra, who is a pianist as well, playing at a children's concert. When she sees him up close as they talk, she realizes that he has Ben's dark brown eyes, which have cured Ezra's blindness.
Ezra figures out who Emily is and they hug in a climatic final scene.
4 stars.
Rosario Dawson's character was developed a lot more than others that I would have liked to see (George the ice hockey coach and Nicholas) and the movie started to frustrate me with the romance but it was a very good move with a very good story
Seven Pounds is about a man named Ben Thomas. Well at least you think it is, up until halfway through the movie. He worked for an aeronautics company. Now he works for the IRS. Ben seems to have seriously lost it, and spends his days hunting down certain people, claiming to some that they are being audited.
Ben calls Ezra, a telemarketer, who is blind, and insults him. Ezra remains patient and just listens, and doesn't get angry.
Ben meets Stewart Goodman, a retirement home owner/manager, who is being audited. His patients seem to be demoralized,and Stuart explains that he hasn't paid his taxes because he has had an unsuccessful bone marrow transplant and needs a new one. While Stewart is saying all this, Ben looks out the window and notices Stewart's new BMW sports coupe.
He speaks to one of Stewart's patients and discovers he isn't a good man, and he forces her to take medication against her will. Ben then angrily confronts Stewart, and denies an exstension on Stewart's window to pay his taxes.
Ben seeks out Emily Posa, who hasn't also paid her taxes because of medical bills. A friendship forms between them.
Ben talks to his friend Holly, who works in the department of Child services. He says that "she owes him a favor". and she replies that "I'll do anything"
Through Holly, Ben finds Connie, a mum who is beaten by her boyfriend who she refuses to leave. He moves out of his beach house, to a motel, and when she calls him, to say that her boyfriend has beaten her up yet again, he sends her to his old house, which to him was always "a safe haven, a place of peace".
He says to sign the deed, and never try to contact him again.
Ben also meets George Ristuccia, an ice hockey coach, who has helped fund scholarships for kids who really need them. George is on dialysis, and needs a new kidney.
Ben is called by his brother, who asks if he took something when he stayed at his house. Ben replies that he didn't. Later Ben's brother confronts him and says "Tim, you can't just play with people's lives!" and tells Tim that impersonating an IRS agent is a crime, thus revealing that the real Ben Thomas is Tim's brother.
Tim checks into hospital, to give some of his bone marrow to a little boy named Nicholas who needs a transplant. (It is hinted he was going to give it to Stewart but, didn't because he didn't deserve it)
Tim spends more and more time with Emily, who now needs a new heart. She explains that her printing press, which she uses, has broken down, and in the middle of the night, Tim endeavors to fix it, which he does.
When Tim sees Emily's doctor, and the doctor says there is only a 3-5 percent chance that she will find a donor in time, Ben calls his friend Dan and tells him that its time.
Tim goes back to his hotel room, and you see a scene that you saw at the start of a movie again. Tim calls the ambulance to report a suicide, and that he is the victim.
He puts a box jellyfish in the bath, and it stings him in into paralysis, killing Tim.
It is then revealed that Ben was involved in a car accident, where everyone in the accident except him died, as well as the accident being his fault, because he was driving and answering a work text message at the same time. This explains the chanting of the names. He also killed his fiance who was in the car with him.
Then Emily's pager, which was given to her, to notify her of a suitable heart, goes off, and she is given a transplant, from Tim's heart.
Emily is later contacted by the real Ben Thomas, who says that last year, he got sick and needed a lung transplant, which Tim gave him. He believed that it started something in Tim.
Later he also gave part of his liver to Holly, which was the reason for the favor of finding Connie, who Tim gave his house.
He also gave his bone marrow (to Nicholas, the boy) and his kidney (to George) while he was still alive.
Emily finds Ezra, who is a pianist as well, playing at a children's concert. When she sees him up close as they talk, she realizes that he has Ben's dark brown eyes, which have cured Ezra's blindness.
Ezra figures out who Emily is and they hug in a climatic final scene.
4 stars.
Rosario Dawson's character was developed a lot more than others that I would have liked to see (George the ice hockey coach and Nicholas) and the movie started to frustrate me with the romance but it was a very good move with a very good story