Smith plays Ben Thomas, an IRS agent who begins the film by saying: "It took God seven days to create the world, and it only took me seven seconds to shatter mine." He is referring to the car accident that he caused that killed his wife and six others. Upon killing seven people, Thomas decides it is his responsibility to help seven people down on their luck. One is Emily Posa, a woman with a congenital heart defect who Thomas eventually falls in love with. Then we have a young boy who needs bone marrow, a blind man, a hockey coach who needs a liver, a social worker in need of a lung and a Mexican family in need of a new life. In the end, Thomas commits suicide so that his heart can go to Posa, his eyes can go to the blind man, the Mexican family gets his beach house, the hockey coach gets his liver and the social worker gets his lung. With his death, Thomas saves seven individuals whereas he killed seven in a car accident he caused.
I cannot begin to understand the grief that Smith's character feels. The car accident he causes kills his wife and six strangers yet he turns his grief into something positive. To me, it is uplifting that he changes the life of seven people that needed help. In fact, it almost goes back to the blog on touch points, Will Smith is touching the lives of seven people and it is all in the memory of the seven lives that he took.
My hope would be that perfect strangers could care to help each other whether or not a fatal car crash is involved. I also feel that face to face communication has changed and is getting worse as each year goes on. With the influence of the internet, we do not need to worry about using spoken communication to get what we need and this to me is sad. Although at the end of the movie, Will Smith's character kills himself so that his heart can be donated to the woman he loves, it shows us how much he truly cared about helping people in need. I think everybody should rent this movie and give it a shot. It was a very inspirational movie!
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