Seven Pounds

I saw a film over a week ago now, probably nearer two weeks ago, called 'Seven Pounds'. It stars Will Smith (Ben Thomas) and Rosario Dawson (Emily Posa) as the two main characters in the film. The story focuses on "An IRS agent (Ben Thomas) with a fateful secret, who embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers (one of which is Emily Posa)" (IMDb). Now, I wont give too much away about the storyline and the film, as I would highly recommend to see it. It is a fabulous film, moving and inspiring, and I found it quite amazing even though I couldn't hear it, as at the time, I was lying on my good ear. However, I still managed to get what was going on, and how the story was progressing etc.

This film is significant to me and to my accident, as about half way through the film Emily was walking to her front door after taking her dog 'Duke' for a walk. She suddenly slows down just outside her gate, and stumbles whilst trying to grab hold of her gate post, she stumbles a bit more, then just completely falls to the floor like a brick. This rather shocking image of her just falling to the floor, would have been shocking to anyone, as it was so quick and sudden, but to me, it meant more as that is exactly what happened to me. Suddenly I could not only picture, but also see how my accident must have happened. The image of a person, just falling to the ground, so quickly and with such force, and in a matter of seconds, still disturbs me. The image of her body just giving way and her head smashing to the floor, and then seeing her lifeless body on the floor...still disturbs me even now. It must be a horrible sight for anyone to actually see a person collapsing like I did, and see my head smash to the floor. My head must have hit the floor with some force, due to the injuries I sustained.

Although the image was shocking to see, and still disturbs me today, as that must have been what happened to me, it will eventually help me. It will hep me come to terms with what happened, as it has shown me what I will never know, and will help me put the pieces together.