The crimes that had been committed in Se7en were all done by a man named John Doe (Kevin Spacey) I psycho who believes in justice. All the crimes that he committed were based on the 7 deadly sins from Christianity.
- Pride is an excessive belief in one's own abilities.
- Envy is wanting what others have, be it status, abilities, or possessions.
- Gluttony is the desire to eat or consume more than you require.
- Lust is a powerful craving for such as sex, power and money.
- Wrath is the loss of rational self-control and the desire to harm others.
- Greed is the desire for material wealth or gain.
- Sloth is laziness and the avoidance of work.
From the order of the killings in the movie, it started with Gluttony where a man was force to eat spaghetti to death and was also kicked to the side during eating which caused internal bleeding leading to his death.
Greed was the second killing where Mills and Somerset discovered a dead body aside with a pound of flesh in a lawyer's office. The lawyer was forced to dissect a pound of his own flesh in payment of the greed he has shown in his career as a lawyer. He died of blood loss afterwards.
The third was Sloth which was one of the slowest and most painful death by far in my opinion. A drug dealer was drugged by John Doe and was tied to a bed for a year whilst under a overdose-like coma. When Somerset and Mills arrived, he is surprisingly STILL ALIVE but only just. This scene also reveals the only jump scare seen in this movie and is also the scariest crime solving scene out of all the killings due to the rise in suspension from the previous killing leading to a surprise jump scare to finish off.
Lust was the fourth killing in se7en. In this crime scene, a man was force to wear a custom made bladed cod-piece and was forced to have sex with a prostitute while having a gun pointed at his head. The final outcome was the death of the prostitute and the man left traumatized by his own actions. Lust was a sin reflected on the desire of men and the "disgusting" occupation of women who is willing to give up her body in exchange for money whilst spreading infections to others, in summary being a "disease-spreading whore" as John Doe has clearly quoted.
After Lust was Pride where John Doe cuts off the nose of a model and was given a choice to either call for help or taking an overdose. In the end, the model died of an overdose. Pride is used to reflect on one's beauty and the pride that she takes to become beautiful in order to hide her weakness emotionally and choosing to die if something ever happens to her it in any shape or form. "A woman... so ugly on the inside she couldn't bear to go on living if she couldn't be beautiful on the outside" highlights on how people judge and take credit each other not from their emotions and personality, but more of their outside looks and clearly reflects on how serious an issue it is and the choices that one makes in order to prevent critique and negative comment.
Envy is John Doe himself because he envies the life of a normal person and envies troubles that Mills have gone through being in the world of se7en. Doe wanted to experience what it would be like to have a family like Mills so he decided to visit Tracey and decapitated her in the end. Doe wanted to be like Mills, having a beautiful wife, beautiful family living a good life, Doe was jealous of these values and wanted to take it all to himself. He states that he tried to "play husband" with Tracy that day but it didn't work out and he took a souvenir instead: "her pretty head". It was Doe's plan that Mills kill him, as he was guilty of ENVY. He also reveals to Mills that Tracy was pregnant.
Due to the actions of John Doe, it drove Mills mad and seeking revenge. In the end, he killed Doe and became Wrath the last sin and killing of the movie.
What I liked about the 6th and 7th killing is that it was unexpected and at the same time interesting from the way that Fincher presented it. He used the characters of John Doe and David Mills to build tension and suspense throughout the movie, and in the end, created a perfect ending and a solution to an enigma thought by the audience and making the last 2 killings being the peak of all the others due to its unique twist in the plot where the main protagonist kills the antagonist in the end and using the character of Somerset being the one to try and stop Doe's "mind games" that he tries to play on Mills who is already in a vulnerable vengeful state.
In conclusion, I really liked how Fincher creates meaning on each of the killings and created also a moral to each of them reflecting what society in a whole is like and in this world, there is always one of the seven deadly sins hiding on the streets.
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