The movie se7en is an entertaining and extremely dark crime thriller with multiple religious themes throughout the film. Centered around two detectives played by Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, the film explores the apathy of the modern world through a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motif. Morgan Freeman's character is an aging cop close to retirement, who has become burdened by the crimes he has witnessed. He has lost faith in humanity and in the ability for the city to redeem itself. In one part of the film Freeman states that the crimes he solves are simply reporting history for an invisible audience. He is un-optimistic that any of it truly makes a difference. Brad Pitt's character on the other hand is a young and optimistic cop, who believes the killer can be found and stopped. The killer commits crime representing the sins of man, for example, in showing gluttony he forces a man to eat in-till he dies. When the killer is revealed he states that he commits these crimes to reveal the horrible nature of mankind. He wishes to shock the world away from their sinful and apathetic lives. The killer believes that the seven deadly sins run ram-pit in today's society and that no one seems to care. While the killer obviously takes this to an extreme, the film-maker is certainly trying to make a point. In modern society ideas that were once believed to be the deadliest of sins, and harmful to the benefit of the soul according to Aquinas have become common place and even considered virtues. Ideas such as greed are defined as success. Advertisements seem to play on lust and our economy runs on gluttony. It is an interesting religious idea if engaging in these sins or creating a culture that worships them is ultimately harmful to a metaphysical soul.
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