Se7en

Today in class we watched Se7en, this was a film about a murderer killing people he believed were committing the seven deadly sins. These sins being:

1. Pride - This sin is considered the original and most serious of the seven deadly sins. This sin is identified as a desire to be more important or attractive than others, and that means that people fail to acknowledge the good work of others, and love themselves.

2. Envy - This sin relates to people whom resent what some people have that they may not. By this, they wish the other person is deprived of their quality as they do not have it themself or perhaps they are lacking in whatever they envy.

3. Gluttony - This sin name comes from the word 'gluttire' meaning to gulp or swallow. Gluttony is the sin involving over-indulgence and over-consumption of anything to the point of wasting it.

4. Lust - This is usually thought of as the sin which includes somebody having thoughts or desires of a sexual nature.

5. Despair - Despair describes a feeling of discontent, which causes unhappiness to somebody, this can also involve thoughts of hopelessness

6. Greed - This is a sense is similiar to lust and gluttony, as it a sin of excess. However, greed is applied to a large desire and pursuit of wealth, status, and power.

7. Sloth - This may be seen as one of the less serious of the sins, Sloth meaning laziness and the lack of doing things.


The film follows two police detectives during an investigation to find a serial killer. Firstly the Policeman do not understand the strange muderous ways of their case, it is then later revealed through their research that the murderer is killing culprits that he believes have committed one of the seven deadly sins, using this to his advantage and killing them in a way relating to whatever sin that person has commited. When the police realise this is what the murderer is doing, he still has many victims along the way and it becomes almost like a race to find him, until he turns himself in.

Se7en shows its viewing audience all the different ways in which these victims are killed, most of the time leaving the viewer disgusted. The man is made to seem very sick in the head. When the killer turns himself in to the police, straight away they know that he still has a murder left to commit. The killer then offers to take the police to where the last murder/sin will happen.

The police stand around with him in a field and make him bend down on his knees, looking extremely inferior to themselves. He said he only wanted a specific policeman there but as he was a dangerous man there was many surrounding and watching out as it is very unpredictable. As an audience it becomes really tense as he makes the policeman drive him to the middle of nowhere, and then a delivery van drives along down the road. At first i thought it may have been a bomb, but then the box is handed to Brad Pitt, the policeman with the killer. This moment in the film builds up lots of tension as the viewer has absolutely no idea to what is in the box, it is then when he opens it that he see's his wife's head. The camera angle used is very clever because it does not show the head, leaving the viewer disgusted at the thought of whats in the box. This completes his task of completing murders of the se7en deadly sins, as Brad Pitt commits the sin that is Anger, by shooting the killer himself and murdering him.

Se7en was an extremely good film, it had a very clever storyline. I particularly liked the credits in se7en as well. I thought these were very effective because at the start we have no idea of what is going on in the credits but by the end of the film you have a much clearer understanding of it. The music that accompanies the credits is also very eerie, this helps to set the film genre of se7en.

Heres a video of the credits: