Guest Blogger: Jamela 2

7 Pounds is a story that observes a character behaving a particular way with no motive. The main character, Ben Thomas, portrayed by Will Smith, is a man who works for the IRS and who thinks he can treat people however he wants to. Throughout the film, Ben is a rude, merciless man to other people. In the first hour of the film, we see Ben punch a nursing home supervisor for not allowing an old lady her bath, speak to a blind man on the phone, and is so needlessly cruel to him, but later that day, he follows the same man (Woody Harrelson) into a restaurant and engage him in conversation. He then checks into a poor quality hotel while looking for people who need favors for their survival. Ben Parks is acting on a plan that seems perfectly clear to himself. It’s hard for the audience to follow his logic in his plan because it goes unexplained - he has no need to explain it to himself, and no way to explain it to anyone else. I’m not going to give away the ending of the movie because there is a twist in the plot. This movie is so powerful and has a deep message behind. Will Smith’s performance is so powerful and gives audiences a wide range of emotions. This is an excellent movie and I recommend that everyone watches it.