Blog entry Number Se7en

In this post I will talk about the movie Seven (Se7en by David Fincher), which is about the seven capital sins (yes, blog 7 and the movie called the same, word choices). But the entry is not only about the movie, it also about the relation the movie has with one of my favorite books, The Divine Comedy.

The movie looks for relations with the book because the killer of the movie is a fanatic of the book, and in his Psychopathy he believes that it is his duty to punish the sinners the same way the movie punishes the sinners that committed the seven deadly sins.

The fact is that this information is given in portion of the book, during purgatory chants. And for the relation with the movie becomes symbolic because the city where the action occurs is never really identified, being it so like some sort of Purgatory for the characters a young and full of life policeman and a old and tired one (Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman), both of them have to live the in very different ways.

The funny thing is that, even with the whole intellectual references from Dante's colossal book and all its relations to mythological punishments and tortures, the killer is finally found for that, the book, and the relations with other written essays and books. The policemen illegally use a CIA way to see who rented those books and essays and the fin the killer John Doe. But then again... maybe that was part of his plan... Spoiler?

Good movie, good readings, a bit on the macabre side... but great, and related to the number seven.