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Worldwide Gross$168.2M
Seven Pounds earns its low 1/10 woke score as pure, apolitical storytelling centered on personal guilt, atonement, and self-sacrifice. No activist framing—just classic redemption through Ben Thomas's quiet acts of generosity.
Seven Pounds centers on a traditional redemption narrative: Will Smith's character Ben Thomas, after causing a fatal car crash while texting, systematically donates organs and assets to seven deserving strangers—including his brother, a social worker, a hockey coach, a young boy, a woman escaping abuse, a blind telemarketer named Ezra, and ultimately his heart to Emily (Rosario Dawson), a woman with congenital heart failure whom he falls in love with.
The plot, driven by personal guilt and moral atonement rather than any social commentary, follows classic storytelling tropes of self-sacrifice and righting one's wrongs without activist framing.
We've run a full content analysis on Seven Pounds and scored it 1/10 on the woke scale. Read our detailed breakdown above to see exactly what we found.
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