film review "Seven"

What is justice

The movie se7en is instructed by David Fincher. It is a thriller which has got a lot of positive publicity. 

The two main characters are the young officer Mils (Brad Pitt) and the almost retired officer Somerset (Morgan Freeman). We are following their relationship in the movie. Officer Somerset is the experienced old man, who tries to teach the young and curious officer Mils about the hard and dark criminal life in New York City.

Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman are doing an excellent job using sarcasm, energy, seriousness and involvement in the characters.   

The movie is about two police officers, who are trying to solve 7 mysterious murder cases. The crimes had seven things in common; all the victims had been killed in the name of God. The victims had been killed, because they did not live their lives according to the seven death sins: Gluttony, greed, pride, anger, lust, sloth and envy. The killings are executed in very sadistic ways.

When you are watching the movie, you have to be very concentrated, because there are many things in this movie, which seems insignificant, but almost everything is done with a deeper purpose.

The soundtrack in this thriller matches perfectly: It is dramatic and very mysterious just like the plot. It includes a lot of appropriate sound effects. The angles of the cameras are faultless.

The movie is absolutely psychological and it is puzzling. In the end you are sitting with many questions about people’s rights, postures and religion.

In the movie we are following the private and the professional lives of the main characters.

We are introduced to the very hard work pressure a police man is subjected to. Our characters are committed to their jobs 24 hours a day.

This pressure is releasing their work process. It is becoming personal and the police men are acting beyond the laws. They are doing everything for justice, even though they become criminals.

They are applying double standards.    

I think the movie was really psychologically, manipulating and exciting. It is fascinating.

You cannot take your eyes away from the screen.

By watching this film, you are given an insight about, how it is to be a person who makes the crimes and a person who are solving them. In the movie there are two obviously perspectives: the officer’s perspectives and the murder’s.

The themes in this movie are: Justice, crime, punishment, faith, rights, extremism and trust.

I sense the messages in this movie are: Everybody has their own opinions about what is right and what is wrong, but it does not justified killing anybody whether it is done in the name of God, in a criminal act, for personal revenge or in the name of justice!