New York City, Homicide Detective Somerset (Morgan Freeman) is retiring in the next week is partnered with the rookie Detective Mills (Brad Pitt). They find a massively overweight man who died after being forced to eat himself to death, without any leads they get a call the next day to a defence lawyer who died after being forced cutting off 7 pounds of his flesh.
The 2 Detective believe the murders relate to the 7 deadly sins; Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Lust, Pride, Envy and Wrath.
The detectives find a paedophile barely clinging to life after being strapped to a bed for a year. After the Detectives follow a lead and have a shootout with the killer at his apartment, in which the killer spared Mills' life after holding him at gunpoint. They find the victims of Lust; prostitute is killed after a man is forced to rape her with a modified BDSM suit, and Pride; the killer cuts off the model's nose and she commits suicide after deciding she cannot live with her disfigurement. The killer-John Doe (revealed to be Kevin Spacey) hands himself in at the police station, through his lawyer Doe will show the only the Detectives the bodies of his next 2 victims if they accompany him there or he will plead insanity. Doe takes them on a long trip into a desert in which he makes cryptic comments towards Mills and also says he only killed to prove the world is full of sin. Doe makes them stop in a remote area, Somerset stops an approaching van which contains the head of Mills' pregnant wife, Tracy. Doe himself represents Envy as he was jealous of Mills' life, Mills breaks into a rage and repeatedly shoots Doe making him represent Wrath. The film ends with Mills being escorted away and Somerset quoting "'The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for'...I agree with the second part."
No comments:
Post a Comment