Se7en

Se7en

'Se7en', 1995

Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.

Director

David Fincher

Runtime

127 minutes

Type

Feature

Genre

Drama

Keywords

serial killer, detective, serial murder, seven deadly sins, human monster

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Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.

A film about two homicide detectives' (Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt) desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world's ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. The movie takes us from the tortured remains of one victim to the next as the sociopathic "John Doe" (Kevin Spacey) sermonizes to Detectives Somerset and Mills -- one sin at a time. The sin of Gluttony comes first and the murderer's terrible capacity is graphically demonstrated in the dark and subdued tones characteristic of film noir. The seasoned and cultured but jaded Somerset researches the Seven Deadly Sins in an effort to understand the killer's modus operandi while the bright but green and impulsive Detective Mills (Pitt) scoffs at his efforts to get inside the mind of a killer...

Summary

Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.

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