7 Pounds

Life is an ongoing maze always changing, always mixing things up. Life is beautiful but yet can  be destructive. It can go from great to worse in seconds. Death i always right behind life there is no way to run from death. life and death are intertwined without death there is no life, death is like a shadow always hovering there. For  Ben Thomas. His life changed in a instance. "God created the world in 7 days I shattered mine in 7 seconds." While sending a text message, Ben accidentally swerves into oncoming traffic and causes a car accident that takes the lives of his beautiful fiance and seven other people. After the Car accident Ben decides to change everything about his life.

there is so much meaning and symbolize in 7 pounds  at the beginning of the movie there's a scene of an ocean and it shows him getting out of it.The water is a source of life but is deadly . The water has the power to give life but can also take it away in a instant .When reaching the beach Ben walks into the house. it is dark and cluttered, Every time he is inside the house there's boxes and papers and Ben's fiances clothes in the background .These remind Ben of Sarah his fiance and Ben just cant get himself to take the items out.  the inside of the house represents what is going on inside of him. But there is a tiny bit of dim light from the sun that is seen shinning into Ben's house shows how there is just a little bit of hope in him to make things right.  When Ben's outside of the house there is so much beauty its very colorful and full of life.  with the flowers and plants the outside of the house symbolizes what is going on the exterior of Ben.    A shot from the movie Ben can be seen clearly as well as all of the flowers and plants surrounding him .  This is a very important scene because it shows us that on the outside Ben seems happy.  All of the color in this image conveys that Ben is lively loving person it seems on the outside. Ben has a beautiful majestic ." I never forget when he said that it was the most deadly creature on earth.  But to me it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen" (Seven Pounds) . there is life and death in the Jelly fish because all it does is kill an is also telling us their is beauty in death. this is relevant to the mission that Ben has because he is doing something amazing sacrificing his life, making his death beautiful. Ben meets Emily  she is slowly dying. Sometimes she is in the hospital, a place of illness and death. However, she and her surroundings are mostly full of life and brightness. Her home is filled with flowers, light colors and wonderful things. She is always wearing bright colorful clothing with many flowers and beauty . These wonderful colors depict who Emily is as a person, loving  caring, and beautiful.  the death-like look her face carries. This suggests that God isn't letting Emily a good person live. Surrounding Emily with such beautiful scenery shows how cruel life can be, not allowing her to live in such beauty. Life is confusing its an ongoing puzzle.

Through the film 7 pounds there is connection between life and death both can be beautiful in their own ways. Life is mysterious never know the ways it works, things can change at any moment for better or for worse .