Seven Pounds Movie Analysis

Seven Pounds is an emotional film that stars Tim Thomas in his redemption journey to change the lives of seven people. The car crash that he caused by texting and driving resulted in seven people losing their lives. Tim’s wife, Sarah Jenson is one of the victims. Tim feels a terrible sense of guilt that a stupid mistake caused loss of life. Tim sets out the rest of his life to interview seven potential candidates that he could help by donating parts of his organs. He first donated a piece of his lung to his brother, Ben. Then he donated a part of liver to a social worker named Holly, a kidney to an ice hockey coach and bone marrow to a boy named Nicholas all without any anesthesia. Throughout the movie, Tim helps Connie Tepos, a victim of domestic violence, and her family escape her abusive boyfriend by giving them his own house for free without any questions. In the end, Tim decides that it is time to end his redemption journey where he ends his life to donate his heart to Emily Posa, a patient with a congenital heart condition with a rare blood type, and his pair of eyes to Ezra Turner, a blind meat salesman, after his death. His choice to kill himself in order to donate his body parts creates the main ethical issue in the film.

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In Tim’s situation, the Natural Law Theory would view it as morally acceptable as Tim had a reason to go through all this donating thing and to even kill himself just so he could redeem himself for the tragic fault that he made. He probably had such a great amount of guilt for taking away several souls during that crash that he somehow survived. Although he could have done something else to help another without killing himself, it would still be morally right in his