Seven lifes
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Seven lifes |
| Original title | Seven pounds |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 123 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gabriele Muccino |
| script | Grant Nieporte |
| production |
Todd Black , Jason Blumenthal , James Lassiter , Will Smith , Steve Tisch |
| music | Angelo Milli |
| camera | Philippe Le Sourd |
| cut | Hughes Winborne |
| occupation | |
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Seven Lives (original title Seven Pounds ) is an American drama from 2008 , directed by Gabriele Muccino and starred by Will Smith . The film opened in the United States on December 19, 2008 and in Germany on January 8, 2009.
action
The plot is shown in chronological order below and does not represent the narrative order. In the film, the actual intention and identity of Tim are only shown at the end.
Tim Thomas (who pretends to be Ben until the end) is a space engineer who graduated from MIT and lives with his girlfriend in a beach house. After he proposed marriage to her, he carelessly causes a serious car accident in which his girlfriend and six other people are killed. Tim plagues that he is responsible for the accident and the deaths of seven people. When his younger brother Ben was diagnosed with lung cancer some time later , Tim donated a lung for him.
This leads to a changing inner attitude in Tim and he comes up with a plan to give his life meaning again. He decides to help people to make amends for his grave, fateful mistake. Using his brother's ID card, an official with the federal IRS , he poses as a tax officer in order to gain access to people he believes are worth helping. Tim is looking for people to whom he can give a part and who in turn want to help others. However, Tim himself sets the condition that these people do not make any further contact with him later.
For example, he helps Holly Apelgren, a youth welfare worker, by donating the right half of his liver to her. Another person is the blind Ezra Turner, who works as a telephone operator for a meat wholesaler. Tim makes his first contact with him in a very brutal way. He calls Ezra at work and starts insulting him later in the conversation. This turns out to be a test as the action progresses. But Ezra continues to respond in a friendly manner and ends the conversation in a professional manner. But Tim rejects the manager of a nursing home, who torments and humiliates the residents of the home, as unsuitable, with the words that he does not get anything from him, which later turns out to be ambiguous.
In his search, Tim also meets Emily Posa, who needs a new heart. He introduces himself to her as a tax officer and grants her a deferred payment for her tax debts. He also gives her his business card so she can contact him if she should have any problems. After visiting her, he rents a room in a nearby motel. He also takes a box jellyfish - a species he has been fascinated with since his youth - into the motel room.
After his visit to Emily, Tim goes to Holly at the youth welfare office and asks her for help: He is looking for someone who urgently needs help but is too proud to accept it. Holly then gives him the address of Connie, the mother of two who is abused by her boyfriend. But she is afraid to leave it because she fears that he will find her everywhere. Tim offers her his help, but Connie reacts very scared and dismissive and asks him to leave. Tim also gives her his business card so that she can contact him if necessary.
Tim donates his left kidney to ice hockey coach George Ristuccia in the hospital. In a busy shopping mall he watches Ezra play the piano. He later observed him in a café, where he offered the waitress to give their child piano lessons free of charge. Meanwhile, Emily collapses in front of her house and is hospitalized. She calls Tim, just wants to talk to him and asks him to tell her a story. Tim tells an experience from his childhood and goes to the hospital while the phone call is in progress. When he gets there, Emily is already sleeping. He sits down next to her on the bed, falls asleep himself and is still there the next morning. In his presence, a doctor tells Emily that she is now the top priority on the heart donor list.
When Tim returns to the motel, Connie calls him from a laundry. Now she asks him for help in order to be able to flee from her partner with her children. Tim meets with her and the children and gives her an envelope and directions to his own beach house. When Connie arrives with her children and opens the envelope, she finds a warm-hearted letter in which Tim bequeathed the house to her and her children.
The next morning Tim brings Emily back home. She asks him some personal questions to which he reacts very negatively. He doesn't want to talk about his own past. She does not understand this and goes into the house disappointed. Some time later she has a visit from a nurse and sees Tim pulling weeds in her garden through the window. She goes to him outside and shows him in her summer house the two printing presses she used to create wedding invitations. The younger model of the two presses ( Heidelberger Druckmaschine ) no longer works, but she cannot find anyone who can repair it. During the night, Tim sneaks back into the shed and repairs the press.
At the hospital where Emily was also staying, Tim donates bone marrow to a boy. He was in severe pain himself for the next few days and did not respond to calls. When he does answer the phone after a while, Emily invites him to dinner. After dinner, Tim shows her the repaired press and walks back to his car to get another present for her. His brother Ben awaits him there and asks him to return his IRS ID. Ben also demands answers from his brother to questions that he has been avoiding for a long time. He asks Tim's car keys so that he cannot drive away, but lets him go back to Emily's house and wants to wait for him outside. Tim wants to say goodbye to Emily, but their feelings for each other are too strong and they sleep together. They later confess their love for each other and talk about a future together in case Emily gets well.
| person | gift |
|---|---|
| Ben Thomas | left lung |
| Holly Apelgren | right half of his liver |
| George Ristuccia | left kidney |
| Nicholas Adams | Bone marrow |
| Connie Tepos | Freedom, home, maybe life |
| Emily Posa | heart |
| Ezra Turner | Corneas of the eyes |
When Emily fell asleep, Tim ran to the hospital, unnoticed by his brother Ben, to speak to Emily's doctor. He learns that Emily's chance of receiving a donor heart and thus getting well again is extremely slim due to her rare blood group. He then goes back to his motel, fills his bathtub with ice water and calls emergency services. The film begins with this scene. Chronologically afterwards, but only shown at the end of the film, Tim then commits suicide by lying down in the water with his box jellyfish , whose poison paralyzes him. He is later taken to the emergency room by an ambulance, where the doctors want to rescue him. However, Tim decided during his lifetime that he would not receive any help in such a case and would donate his organs to certain people in need. Among other things, his friend Dan ensures that after his death, Emily keeps his heart healthy and Ezra the corneas of his eyes.
At the end of the film, Ben visits Emily. He explains her actions to Tim. She learns of Tim's motives and of the other people and meets Ezra at a school event, who has meanwhile also found out about her.
production
Seven Lives is based on a script Grant Nieporte wrote for Columbia Pictures . In June 2006, actor Will Smith came to Columbia to star in a film as well as part of its production. In September 2007 Gabriele Muccino was engaged as a director; this brought the creative team of the 2006 film The Pursuit of Happiness , in which Smith played the lead role, with. Rosario Dawson and Woody Harrelson signed in December 2007 to take on roles in Seven Lives . Filming began in February 2008.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Tim Thomas / "Ben Thomas" | Will Smith | Jan Odle |
| Emily Posa | Rosario Dawson | Claudia Urbschat-Mingues |
| Ezra Turner | Woody Harrelson | Thomas Nero Wolff |
| Ben Thomas | Michael Ealy | Marcel Collé |
| Dan | Barry Pepper | Gerrit Schmidt-Foss |
| George Ristuccia | Bill Smitrovich | Frank-Otto Schenk |
| Connie Tepos | Elpidia Carrillo | Iris Artajo |
| Dr. Briar | Gina Hecht | Ulrike Stürzbecher |
| Sarah Jenson | Robinne Lee | Sabine Arnhold |
| Larry | Joseph A. Nuñez | Nico Mamone |
| Holly Apelgren | Judyann Elder | Marianne Gross |
| Kate | Octavia Spencer | Martina Treger |
title
The original title Seven Pounds is an allusion to William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice : In this comedy, Antonio agrees to repay his debts with Shylock with a pound of meat, first cut in the heart; In Seven Lives, Tim Thomas pays his sevenfold debt with his organs, most recently with his heart and in one case by overwriting his house.
Reviews
"Mixture of social drama, thriller and romance with borrowings from various role models, which is ambitious through a nested narrative style, but only provokes sentiment and ultimately only serves as a star vehicle for the main actor."
“Will Smith is serious! Thanks to the strong acting main actor, the slightly overconstructed stirring piece has a long lasting effect after leaving the cinema. "
Web links
- Seven lives in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for seven lives . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Michael Fleming: Columbia, Smith put on 'Pounds' Archived from the original on December 21, 2008. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Variety . June 4, 2006 (English). Retrieved July 7, 2008.
- ↑ Michael Fleming, Tatiana Siegel: Will Smith to star in 'Seven Pounds' . In: Reed Business Information (Ed.): Variety . September 6, 2008 (English). Retrieved July 7, 2008.
- ↑ Tatiana Siegel: 'Pounds' gains Dawson, Harrelson . In: Reed Business Information (Ed.): Variety . December 5, 2007 (English). Retrieved July 7, 2008.
- ↑ Seven Lives. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on April 5, 2020 .
- ^ Gerard Wright: Will Smith's Seven Pounds, and four kilos. January 3, 2009, accessed January 11, 2009 .
- ↑ Seven Lives. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Criticism on Cinema.de. Retrieved April 12, 2011 .
