Lets discuss the movie Se7en!

[heffer111]

I'll just throw some ideas out there.... I know it's gonna sound like im listing homework questions, but I swear I'm not, I'm just putting them in numbered question form. I'll try and start doing this with different movies, if it catches on....


1. Do you feel he is a Messiah or just a deranged man? Or, what do you think he feels he is? A man touched by the hand of God to spread a message, or just a man following a literal interpretation of writing about Sins?

2. Any significance to him being named John Doe, and having no prints and virtually no records at all?

3. Some people try to argue that Doe is the most innocent character in the movie, any truth to this? Is he psycho or not? And is he that different from any normal person, or just an extreme type version of someone?

4. While I was watching, I realized that Sommerset (Freeman) and Doe used the same exact tactics to getting stuff and how their minds worked. They never approached each other in a hostile matter and seemed to understand each other. What do you think this is trying to say, and I guess it ties in with my question above.


And any other things you guys wanna bring up, be free to

[Dr. T is an alien]

I really wish that WWF would have used Raven's Se7en idea for a storyline.

[Ultimo Chocula]

1. Do you feel he is a Messiah or just a deranged man? Or, what do you think he feels he is? A man touched by the hand of God to spread a message, or just a man following a literal interpretation of writing about Sins?

I think he's a man who saw a lot of sin and vice in the world and it got to a point where he snapped and saw himself as a sort of moral cleanser. He believed that by his example everyone would view people for what they really were: Lazy, self absorbed, disease spreading, sociopaths. Of course the twist was that he was just as demented and sick as the people he accussed of sinning, but he admited that.

2. Any significance to him being named John Doe, and having no prints and virtually no records at all?

Absolutley. By having no identity he is practically untouchable, therefore, a pseudo god. From the police perspective, if they don't know who they're trying to catch then they are chasing a phantom.

3. Some people try to argue that Doe is the most innocent character in the movie, any truth to this? Is he psycho or not? And is he that different from any normal person, or just an extreme type version of someone?

He is a psycho. He just sees that everyone else is more psychotic for allowing sinfulness to become normal and accepted, which to him is even crazier.

4. While I was watching, I realized that Sommerset (Freeman) and Doe used the same exact tactics to getting stuff and how their minds worked. They never approached each other in a hostile matter and seemed to understand each other. What do you think this is trying to say, and I guess it ties in with my question above.

Sommerset has seen everything. He's a cop who lives in the most wretched town in America. Nothing shocks him. Likewise, Doe isn't some random killer. He's methodical, smart, and cunning. Every one of his murders were planned out to the most minute detail. Sommerset already knew what he was up against, he just wanted Doe caught.

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

I'm disturbed that the film's title is Se-Seven-ven.

["Hollywood" Cactus Matt]

boberts said:

I'm disturbed that the film's title is Se-Seven-ven.

Close.

Se-Seven-en.

I liked the flick, but I don't feel like answering questions. I just genuinely dislike using numbers as letters, or whatever you would call what they did with Se7en.