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After "Seven Deadly Sins" was screened, its reputation immediately exploded.

In fact, today, although it is completely different from the years of "Seven Deadly Sins", sometimes there is really no harm without comparison.

And how does a movie stand out?

It can be said that a large part of it really depends on the support of peers!
"Seven Deadly Sins" itself is indeed good enough. In addition, in recent years, there have actually been a lot of suspense crime films. However, many of the routines have been used for a long time. I want to innovate and give people something new. The new routines that I feel are really too few.

In this way, "Seven Deadly Sins" is even more rare. In fact, the ending of "Seven Deadly Sins" can be said to be not the best choice in theory for a commercial movie, because it is too depressing and too desperate. , too dark.

But sometimes, there are exceptions to some things.

That's it for "Seven Deadly Sins"!
Media coverage of "Seven" was rated higher.

"Seven Deadly Sins" has reached a new level in crime-themed movies: it combines criminal psychology with social contradictions to form a highly tense plot and social significance worthy of in-depth exploration. ——"Los Angeles Times"

"Every scene in "Seven Deadly Sins" is as precise as a textbook and as beautiful as an oil painting. The heavy rain and light rain from beginning to end are stunning." - "The Hollywood Reporter"

"The ubiquitous details of "Seven Deadly Sins", the despairing ending, and the horrifying investigation make it the most worth-watching suspense film this year!" - "Times Entertainment"

Etc., etc.

Of course, in-depth analysis of various aspects and interpretations from different directions by various film critics are indispensable.

What is particularly interesting is a review that is completely different from the mainstream interpretation. This review comes from David Morrison, a film critic who has always taken an unconventional approach.

Why do you say that?

Because what everyone is discussing is more about the details of the movie, such as what is in that box?
The discussion is, what does this movie have to do with the problems that exist in society?Does the same story exist in reality?

Etc., etc.

But David Morrison interpreted the film in a different way.

"The movie title "SEVEN" means the Seven Deadly Sins, and the main line of the entire movie is to track down the murderer who is about to kill/injure the victim for each of the Seven Deadly Sins.

So we acquiesce that the seven Catholic sins mentioned above are all reflected to varying degrees in the movie.I say manifestation here because after watching the movie, many moviegoers simply asked where the remaining two bodies were and whether Officer Mills' wife Tracy was beheaded.In fact, I think most people have a fallacy in their understanding of the seven deadly sins. They think that the seven deadly sins are equivalent to seven corpses.Please relax your thinking temporarily, as long as every crime is reflected in the movie, whether it is death, injury or any other form, then it is complete.

So let's take a look at the previous five crimes: gluttony, greed, laziness, lust, and arrogance. They have been committed by the deceased fat man, the deceased lawyer, the half-dead psycho drug addict (also the first suspect), the deceased prostitute, and the deceased female star. It was reflected in the body.But rage and jealousy, the most serious crimes next to pride, are not directly shown to us in the form of murder.

Most viewers immediately believed that the mentally ill John Doe, who suddenly appeared at the police station with blood-stained fingers, was the murderer.I don’t even think about an arrogant, arrogant, cold-blooded, cautious and highly intelligent criminal who commits serial crimes, tortures his victims for up to a year without feeling any trouble in his heart, and treats the police like fools and proactively provides clues. Why should he be like this? It's like exposing yourself as mentally retarded, and in such a nonsensical way.

Since the public believes that the murderer who suddenly blew himself up is the murderer, let's just take a look at John, the would-be murderer.Because the movie is not a cartoon, it lasts two hours and one minute, and every second has a purpose.So what's wrong with John naturally hints at the real murderer.This suspect, who seems to fit the characteristics of the murderer, is a fanatical Catholic, a psychotic, and highly educated. There are four points worthy of study, which point directly to the details of the real murderer behind the scenes.

First of all, when the police interrogated John, and John confessed very easily that he was responsible for the previous cases, he once tilted his head to the old policeman outside the isolation glass and lip-synced something. The old policeman took one look and immediately turned his head away. Speak to the person in front of you.When I saw this scene, I was very sure that they knew each other and were connected in some way, but the old policeman never revealed that he knew John.Moreover, John's lip reading and the cautious and meticulous case-handling style of veteran policeman Samose could not possibly ignore such a major clue.

Think about it carefully, think about it carefully, what is the setting of Samosei in the movie from the beginning?

He is a wise, elegant and extremely calm old police detective!With many years of experience, he can be said to have rich experience in handling cases.

How could such a cunning old police detective ignore such a major clue?
So, there must be a problem here.

So if we set the target of suspicion on him, we will suddenly find that everything is so natural, and all the logic suddenly becomes smooth!

Secondly, the request made by John's lawyer is very weird and unreasonable. His client John is willing to confess all the crimes and tell the whereabouts of the remaining two bodies, but the only request is that it can only be done by the old police officers Summerser and Mills. The police detective is accompanying you, and the reason is that he admires you. This lie is full of loopholes and even makes a mockery of the audience's IQ.So is this really the case?Is this really a huge hole left by the director?

From the previous crimes, we can see that the murderer is an extremely proud, cautious, and God-like character.The reason why the two police detectives were able to obtain the right clues at the right time every time was entirely because the "God" murderer was playing cards. He guided them step by step and asked them to discover his perfect crime. He could not also do it. He won't appreciate anyone but himself.

Third, the conversation between Somerset, Mills, and John in the car is very important.Mills tried to induce John to reveal some information and motives for committing the crime by asking questions, but John fed back to Mills the details and motives of several previous cases like a disciple giving endorsement.It is worth noting that the old policeman Somerset did not show much interest in the conversation between the two, but when John said that he planned such a perfect killing, he looked at John in the rearview mirror and said "your works?"

So does he actually have a subtext: Is this really your work?
This is the true dissatisfaction and reminder from God to believers who take credit for themselves.

As mentioned before, the murderer of this serial case is an extremely egoistic and proud person. He will not want others to pick the fruits of everything he has worked so hard to arrange and gain fame.So he questioned it without hesitation, but Mills, who had a careless personality, didn't notice anything was wrong at all.Even when John said that he was chosen by God, Samose was still brainwashing him that it was you who enjoyed the killing, not anyone who forced you to do these things.The purpose is to make John completely believe that it is his own subjective will and willingness to be the executor of his series of crimes, rather than a puppet to be used.

The last and most crucial point is that after they escorted John to the wilderness, the arranged truck drove over. There was clearly a police helicopter backup, and Mills was close at hand. The suspect John was handcuffed, and there was a scene. There is no cover on the flat ground, in full view of the public, and there is no way to escape.Samose made the strangest choice. He ran over alone, stopped the car, talked to the driver, and after getting the carton, he asked the helicopter and all units to move back and not get closer, knowing that it was not a bomb.And when John told Mills that the carton contained his wife's head, John was ostensibly persuading Mills, but in fact he worked with John to break down Mills' inner defenses and prompt him to shoot.Why?It's simple. If the old police officer really wanted to dissuade Mills from shooting Psycho John, he would have denied it as soon as the Psycho said that the box contained his wife's head.Because everyone knows that when the other person has been stimulated and may be extremely excited and may act in extreme ways, what you need to do is to stabilize the other person's emotions before talking about anything else.

So, while watching this scene, I always wondered, why?Why did he do this?

Why don't you tell him that he's lying to you, why don't you just tell Mills that there's just a dog head in the box, or something.

He doesn't, he doesn't even have an explanation, and that's the weirdest thing about it.

Even if he said it, Mills might not believe it, but at least he wouldn't let Mills lose control so quickly!Isn't it?

The key point is also, why is Shammose's first reaction to let Mills throw the gun instead of something else?
As an extremely calm old police detective, would he really be so easily affected by this situation?
No, not possible!
Therefore, there is a huge problem with his approach!

Step [-]: When you see the contents of the carton, ignore the warning and wait for the bomb disposal expert to come. Open the carton yourself and yell at Mills to put down the gun. Mills is not even ready to use his gun.This is a psychological suggestion, suggesting to Mills that you have a gun and can shoot.This step is coordinated with John telling Mills that he went to his house and found his wife's design;
Step [-]: After John told Mills that he beheaded his wife, when Mills loudly and painfully asked Somerset what was in the carton, Somerset pretended to be in pain and told him not to shoot.This is very inconsistent with the character of Samosa, an old police detective.

He is always so calm and rational. At least before this, he has never made such a low-level mistake. It feels like he has lost his mind. Therefore, there is only one answer. He is hinting at Mills, hinting at Mills, shoot!
Step [-]: When John further prodded Mills by saying that the carton contained his wife's head, Somerset punched John to stop him from continuing.

It seems that he is stopping John, but in fact, he is telling Mills that what he said is the truth. If it is not the truth, why should he stop him?

He could have completely denied all of this and John's words, but he didn't. He did something terrible!

And this became the last straw that broke Mills' psychological defense.

Looking at the whole, the previous five crimes, plus now, this shooting completes the last two crimes!

Jealousy and rage!It can only be said that rather than needing to consider that there are too many complex gray spaces in this world and that human nature has too many complex components, we are more inclined to believe that the world is black and white, and that A is a good person and B is a bad person. .

As for why the old policeman Samose became the mastermind behind this, we may be able to get some inspiration from the words of Hemingway he quoted.

The world is beautiful and worth fighting for!

At first glance, it seems that this sentence is thinking on the sunny side. Although there are perverted killers like John in the world, although there are all kinds of unsatisfactory and bad things, the whole world is not like this, and the world is still beautiful. , it is worth fighting for.

But the question is, who is Samose?

He is about to retire, he is about to leave the police force, he is about to grow old, and he has seen too many of the darkest things in the world, so when these words come out of his mouth, it seems extremely weird.

Perhaps another understanding would be more reasonable. If he was that "God" and the first case was not the Seven Deadly Sins case, what did he do?
He saw that there were children who witnessed the murder, but his colleagues thought he was meddling and used the word "again"!
Yes, he once tried to have mercy and solve these problems in legal and reasonable ways, but he found that he could not do it.

Because people around him always tell him that this case can be closed. Others, such as children seeing murder cases, have nothing to do with them. Don't meddle in other people's business and don't make trouble!

Therefore, he is disappointed with this world!
Of course, he still believed that the world could be beautiful, so he started to struggle. How to struggle?

"Seven Deadly Sins" is his way of struggle. John was just chosen by "God", that is, the person he chose. This is his work.

Moreover, haven't you noticed that Samose seems to be very synchronized with the murderer's thinking. Are the books he searched really for the purpose of investigating the case?
No, maybe it’s just to supplement your own plan and make your work more perfect!

And, John is jealous of Mills?Why should a stranger be jealous of another stranger?

Don't you think it's strange?
There are countless happy people in this world who live a better life than Mills. Why isn't he jealous?

But if you put it on Samose, you will find that everything falls into place.

Old Detective Somerset himself has been unmarried for many years, has no children, and has only had a relationship experience where he almost got married. From the first scene, the characterization of Old Detective Somerset is a bad touch, a bit self-reliant, and looks down on the card players in the library. Colleagues are serious people who never smile.The only smile he smiled was when he was invited to their home for dinner by Mills' wife Tracey. There was also a scene where he and Mills' wife Tracey were talking alone. I don't want to over-interpret this paragraph, but now I really think it is meticulous. Designed.

In the end, the pervert's lawyer repeatedly emphasized twice at the end that Samose and Mills must go together, twice specifically reminding them.

Jealousy, maybe not the pervert, but the samoose!

Because Samose was the one who had the most contact with Mills and the most contact with Tracey. He was jealous that someone like Mills could have a wife like Tracey, and even more jealous that Tracey was willing to work for Mill. Si is pregnant and has a baby!Therefore, all logic is perfectly closed! "