“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 …showed first 75 words of 1971 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1971 total…film, most if not all of us are not that far away from being like John Doe. We are one simple slip of morality away from him. Just think about this for a minute, how many sins have you committed today? Amazing isn’t it we are really not that much different than John Doe, we just don’t go to his extreme or do we, in our minds and hearts, just not our actions.