Seven
“SEVEN” A FILM BY DAVID FINCHER STARRING: BRADD PITT AND MORGAN FREEMAN By Ken Balch World of Ideas 390 Prof. George Adams The movie “Seven” is a depiction of the inevitable fall of mankind through the grizzly murders of John Doe (Kevin Spacey). Doe commits a series of methodical, exacting, and grotesque murders, as portrayed in the Seven Deadly Sins listed in the novel Marques de Sade, works of Milton, Chaucer, and Dante. The Seven Sins consist of Pride, Envy, Greed, Wrath, Sloth, Gluttony, and Lust. These were set out to show mankind what they must avoid to find their way into Heaven. The killer (Doe) cleverly commits each Sin in such a way that it seems; to the older, wiser detective Somerset (Morgan Freeman), that the man is preaching a sermon. Telling each victim to commit an act of attrition for his or her Sin. Later this notion turns out to be true, for in fact the killer is trying to send out a message of how despicable and ugly mankind has become. We are introduced to Mills (Pitt), at the scene of the first crime. He (Pitt) is a young, brash, full of anger and energy detective. He sees the killer as . . .
Then an office comes along and hands him the Cliffs Notes to the material mentioned that Somerset read. She was alive when it happened and Doe gave her a choice, a phone in one hand and sleeping pills in the other; she could live with her deformity or drift off into death by overdosing. The atmosphere of the film is a gloomy always-raining dark look at the inner dwellings of a large city. Doe makes a deal to reveal where the bodies are, if Somerset and Mills agree to go with him to the scene. We are one simple slip of morality away from him. The symbolism can easily be detected in the vast differences of the two detectives, the older, cautious, almost poetic Somerset (Freeman). John, several times raises the temper of Mills, to the point of Wrath, yet Somerset was there to calm the situation. The fourth sin was that of Pride. Well, after she was disfigured, John Doe gave her a choice, to live or die. Next was a man who was framed by John Doe, as being the killer. First, we see an obese man face down in a plate of spaghetti, killed by eating himself to death; Gluttony was found at the scene behind the fridge, written in grease. In one hand was a phone that she could use to call for help; she would be ugly, yet alive. The fifth victim was a prostitute, who was, for lack of a better description, screwed to death.
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