Five, six, “seven”
Gluton is defined as one who eats or consumes immoderate amounts. In ”Seven” glutony plays a fat man bound at the ankles by rope forced to eat food to essentially his stomach exploded.
Greed is defined by an execessive desire for more thsan one needs. In this case is a lawyer is pushed into cutting a pound of flesh from his body (absolutely NO bone, NO muscle, etc.). Directors view of lawyers is a persuaded decision that lawyers “dedicate their life to lying”(David Fincher)
Sloth described as laziness or indolence( disinslined to work). Such as drug dealers, pimps, roamers, etc. In “Seven” a man is tortured for a whole year to result in an almost wax-like humanart piece.
Lust is defined as intense, excessive or unrestrained sexual desire. In Fincher’s film a prostitute is killed by a man who had sex with her wearing a knife-like strap-on contraption. This was forced upon by the killer holding a gun in the man’s mouth. He was terrofied in later interviews.
Pride is a sense of one’s proper dignity or value; self respect. “Pride” is painted in blood above the headboard where the woman laid dead. In this case a woman is found in her bedrooom with bandages over her face, glued to her right hand lies a phone and glued to her left hand sits a bottle of pills. After the maming of the face use the phone to call for help or take the pills and kill yourself.
Envy defined as discontent and resentment aroused by desire for possesions or qualities of another. If you haven’t seen the movie i don’t want to ruin it for you, but the victim of envy wanted to live a normal life. He tried at the end, but it just didn’t work.
Wrath is brought on by vindictive anger, rage or fury. This too ties into the conclusion of the movie. And again i will not spoil it.
According to David Dincher, we all fall victim to one of these qualities if not more in one way or the other. Kinda spooky when you talk about everyone showing qualities of one or more of the seven deadly sins. So my focusing question “Why does John Doe say “We see a deadly sin standing on every street corner and in every home, and we tolerate it.”
