Hello Nicole, Altruist means selfless, altruists are people who care more about other people than about themselves. About "Seven Pounds", Ben Thomas (played by Will Smith) , an Internal Revenue Service agent who goes around auditing people. He seems like he’s constantly working to challenge himself, and do some of the things the hard way. We are, then, shown conflicting accounts of who Ben Thomas really is. It brings to mind the theory of the unreliable character. Naturally, as the audience member, we’re a little more inclined to believe, rather than disbelieve, the main character’s point of view. That, simply put, is the basic inclination, and the basic subversion of that basic inclination is that the main character may not be all that reliable.

In the film Seven Pounds, Will Smith is cast as a man on a mission although its precise nature remains a mystery for a while. All that you really glean from Will Smith as Thomas, is that he's seen happier times: "In seven days, God created the world,'' he intones. "In seven seconds I shattered mine.'' Thomas has a list of seven people he's pursuing for unpaid taxes. Yet, as he tracks them down and confronts them, we realise that he's less concerned about the soundness of their bank balances than the stability of their characters. He now becomes the first tax inspector in the history of movies to ask himself if his quarry is a good person. Even more miraculously, if they satisfy him on this score, he gives them more time to pay.So yes, I suppose he is a hero and altruist because he has an unselfish concern for the welfare of others.

well seven pound is will smith new movie it's hard to explain what i think of the hero since its not yet release for viewing.. Altruist is someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being cowboy...

Nicole, I do not know the movie "Seven Pounds" so cannot comment on that. :( An altruist is one who thinks primarily of the welfare (or well-being) of others, rather than of him- or herself. The root of the word is the Latin "alter", or other. The opposite would be an egoist, one who thinks first of him- or herself. The root of this word is the Greek "ego", or I.