七宗罪观后感200字就行 用心理学阐述
《七宗罪》讲述了老探员萨默塞特和年轻的警察米尔斯追查连续杀人案的故事，而杀人犯John是一个变态的宗教杀手，自己认为自己是神派来的使者，代表神以七宗罪的来惩罚世人。
老探员萨默塞特则看多了太多的杀人案件和了解很多犯人的性格，在侦查案件事表现出冷静，特别是最后车子里，一句话都没有说，对于犯人解释表现出习惯以至于不去和犯人反驳。
年轻的警察米尔斯一心想抓到犯人，但由于自己的冲动，被犯人诱导去犯罪，最终由执法者变成犯罪人。
影片的john不是没有文化，相反是受过高等教育，智商也极高，但反而却成为了危害社会的人。
由于受到宗教的影响，加上社会上的种种原因，犯人就用七宗罪来衡量这个社会，对犯有七宗罪之一的人连续杀害，但对自己所犯的罪，却只有七宗罪之一的嫉妒，完全没有对自己杀人而感到罪恶，自己认为自己是替神办事，帮助社会。
影片中的john是典型的反社会人员，他们的人格扭曲，开始异化，脱离现实社会思想。
他想用七宗罪来告诫世人，但自己却制造人去犯七宗罪，而不是去感化和告诫，把罪行强加于别人，只顾及自己的计划，只是用自己的角度来看一个人的罪行，他所说的罪行其实都是他自己想的，没有用社会角度来衡量他的罪恶程度。
所以犯人john是一个严重的偏执狂，思想过度夸张。
至于年轻的警察米尔斯，最终无法控制自己的情绪而私自杀死犯人。
作为一个警察，却无法控制自己的情绪。
可以看出，人性的脆弱，造成了冲动性犯罪。
米尔斯是由于自己的性格，然后被外界因素影响也导致他犯罪，说明犯罪人有些是无法控制自己的性格而导致犯罪，性格也是犯罪的起源之一。
老探员萨默塞特则是办案的老手，当他看到犯人留下的暴食和贪婪时，知道犯人是以七宗罪来连续杀人，然后就去查看有关七宗罪的书，来猜测犯人的心理和作案方法。
说明了，猜测犯人的心理是破案关键和线索。
《七宗罪》讲述了3个人的故事，表现出犯罪和心理的关联性。
求《七宗罪》1500字的电影观后感，从心理学角度
Although not originating from the bible, the concept of deadly sins is almost as old as Christian doctrine itself. Theologians like 4th century Greek monk Evagrius of Pontus first compiled catalogues of deadly offenses against the divine order, which 6th century pope Gregory the Great consolidated into a list of seven sins, which in turn formed the basis of the works of medieval\\\/renaissance writers like St. Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologiae), Geoffrey Chaucer (Canterbury Tales), Christopher Marlowe (Dr. Faustus), Edmund Spenser (The Faerie Queene) and Dante Alighieri (Commedia Divina\\\/Purgatorio). And in times when the ability to read was a privilege rather than a basic skill, the depiction of sin in paintings wasn't far behind; particularly resulting from the 16th century's reformulation of church doctrine, the works of artists like Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder brought the horrific results of humankind's penchant to indulge in vice back into general consciousness with surrealistic eloquence, reminding their viewers that no sin goes unseen (Bosch, The Seven Deadly Sins) and that its commission leads straight into a hell reigned by gruesome, grotesque demons and devils whose sole purpose is to torture those fallen into their hands (Bosch, The Hay-Wagon and The Last Judgment; Bruegel, The Triumph of Death and The Tower of Babel). More recently, the seven deadly sins have been the subject of Stephen Sondheim's play Getting Away With Murder and a ballet by George Balanchine (Seven Deadly Sins); and on the silver screen the topic has been addressed almost since the beginning of filmmaking (Cabiria [1914], Intolerance [1916]). Thus, Se7en builds on a solid tradition both in its own domain and in other art forms, topically as well as in its approach, denouncing society's apathy towards vice and crime. Yet - and although expressly referencing the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, Chaucer and Dante - David Fincher's movie eschews well-trodden paths and grabs the viewer's attention from the beginning; and it does so not merely by the depiction of serial killer John Doe's (Kevin Spacey's) crimes, which could easily degenerate into a mindless bloodfest that would defeat the movie's purpose. (Not that there isn't a fair share of blood and gore on display; both visually and in the characters' dialogue regarding those details not actually shown; but Fincher uses the crimes' gruesome nature to create a sense of stark realism, rather than for shock value alone.) In addition, Doe's mindset is painstakingly presented by the opening credits' jumpy nature, his lair's apocalyptic makeup and his notebooks, all of which were actually written out (at considerable expense), and whose compilation is shown underlying the credits. The movie's atmosphere of unrelenting doom is further underscored by a color scheme dominated by brown, gray and only subdued hues of other colors, and by the fact that almost every outdoors scene is set in rain. Moreover, although screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker explains on the DVD that the story was inspired by his observations in New York (and the movie was shot partly there, partly in L.A.), it is set in a faceless, nameless city, thus emphasizing that its concern isn't a specific location but society generally. Central to the movie is the contrast between world-weary Detective Somerset (Morgan Freeman) who, while decrying the rampant occurrence of violence in society, for much of the movie seems to have resigned himself to his inability to do something meaningful about this (and therefore seems to accept apathy for himself, too, until his reluctant final turnaround), and younger Detective Mills (Brad Pitt), who fought for a reassignment to this particular location, perhaps naively expecting his contributions to actually make a difference; only to become a pawn in Doe's scheme instead and thus show that, given the right trigger, nobody is beyond temptation. As such, Somerset and Mills are not merely another incarnation of the well-known old-cop-young-cop pairing. Rather, their characters' development over the course of the film forces each viewer to examine his\\\/her own stance towards vice. Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt perfectly portray the two detectives; while Freeman imbues his Will Somerset with a quiet dignity, professionalism and learning, muted by profound but not yet wholly irreversible resignation, Pitt's David Mills is a brash everyman from the suburbs with an undeniable streak of prejudice, a penchant for quick judgment and a thorough lack of sophistication, both personally and culturally. Notable are also the appearances of Gwyneth Paltrow (significantly Brad Pitt's real-life girlfriend at the time) as Mills's wife Tracy and ex-marine R. Lee Ermey as the police captain. Yet, from his very first appearance onwards, this is entirely Kevin Spacey's film. Reportedly, Brad Pitt especially fought hard for his casting; and it is indeed hard to imagine Se7en with anybody other than the guy who, that same year, also won an Oscar for portraying devilish Keyser Soze in The Usual Suspects: No living actor has Spacey's ability to simultaneously express spine-chilling villainy, laconic indifference and limitless superiority with merely a few gestures and vocal inflections. While Se7en can certainly claim the sledgehammer effect on its viewers sought by its fictional killer, the punishment meted out to Doe's victims - taking their perceived sins to the extreme - pales in comparison to that awaiting sinners according to medieval teachings. (Inter alia, gluttons would thus be forced to eat vermin, toads and snakes, greed-mongers put in cauldrons of boiling oil and those guilty of lust smothered in fire and brimstone.) Most serial killers have decidedly more mundane motivations than Doe. And after all, this is only a movie. Seven is a very disturbing thriller about a serial killer,John Doe(Kevin Spacey), killing people via examples of the seven deadly sins - gluttony, greed, sloth, lust, pride, envy and wrath. The story begins with Detective Mills (Brad Pitt) being assigned to Detective Somerset (Morgan Freeman). Detective Somerset is due to retire at the end of the week, and Detective Mills is moving up in the world, and is to take Somerset's place. This is a very disturbing movie. It will keep you enthralled and glued to your seat for the entire 127 minutes. Indeed, I was staggered that I never once lost concentration or was bored with this movie.This is a movie with an unexpected ending that is absolutely unpredictable and which is not at all a Hollywood style ending.I saw this movie a couple times, and I liked it as a scary movie on a rainy day or whatever.... it's just that, I know too many people who take this stuff seriously. It's filled with Christian or more specifically Catholic, mythology - the seven deadly sins Lust, Vanity, Gluttony, Pride, Wrath, Sloth and Greed. It's basically a vigilante who goes around killing people in horrific manners as a punishment for their sins. It has a surprise ending which was cleverly thought out more or less, but innocents suffered at this guy's hands and the plot doesn't really make sense. In no way does it make moral sense. First of all, Catholics practice child sacrifice and torture and enslave women, which does not qualify them as the best moral judges. The bible in itself is tyrannical and abusive, as well as chock full of lunacy - not the reasoned judge I'd want making decisions on my moral life that's for sure. Also this guy does not really mete out justice. A person guilty of gluttony, sloth or vanity, does not deserve death, not even in the Catholic church and they loooove to kill and torture people. Usually, you go to confession and say a Hail Mary or two. I think the psycho in this movie was just looking for an excuse to kill people and get his pic in the paper, or whatever, and con a bunch of suckers into thinking he was some underground hero instead of what he was - a cruel psychotic, not-very-bright, jerk. Actually I have a lot of compassion for people who mess up in life, controlling the worst of your nature is difficult, most people mess up often on all counts - and Catholics can be overly critical - not to mention psychotic - about details anyway. You really have to know a person's whole life to know what they are. Maybe that guy was injured and gained weight because he couldn't move around very well, maybe the guy having sex was lonely and frightened and needed physical contact... who knows? You can't judge people on an outward, shallow look-over of their lives. If you want to help people out with their struggles for virtue why not invite the gluttony guy out to walk with you, or ask the lustful guy what intimate relationships mean to him, or why he's lonely or out of control? Maybe they're looking for help, virtue is it's own reward and all that - and lack of it is it's own justice in many ways. I think the psycho killer could've stayed at home and worked on himself, it would've worked out on it's own.
大家帮编一份龙族的读后感，要600字以上的。
谢谢。
真正的寂寞是一种深入骨髓的空虚，一种令你发狂的空虚。
纵然在欢呼声中，也会感到内心的空虚、惆怅与沮丧。
——龙族 读完《龙族》之后，我突然发现我也有一种孤寂的感觉了。
——孤寂 孤独与寂寞。
在《龙族》最后一章中，那个肯德基先生指着自己的心脏，说：“我们每一个人可能都有这么一个死小孩，在这里藏着。
”这样的死小孩。
怎么样的? 孤独又执著，倔强得不肯认输。
其实每次读完龙族，都会有一种鼻子酸涩的感觉，无论读了多少遍。
仿佛自己心中的孤独被这本像放大镜一般的书，放大了无数倍。
你体会得到书中任务的孤独，因为你也孤独。
龙族，写的是一些人的孤独。
他们在孤独中拉风着，执著着，倔强着，却没有人看见，死之后也没有陌生人人为他们惋惜，他们明明是在拯救世界埃就像是一朵开在悬崖上的花，拼命地生长，开出最美丽的花瓣，在风中摇曳的身姿，如同伊人在水中央跳舞。
却没有人欣赏。
默默地开在悬崖边上，只有孤独的风看着它。
看它含苞，看她绽放，直至凋零…… 路明非从小衰到大，他的十八岁的人生，详细诠释了什么叫做“没有最衰只有更衰”。
一直寄住在婶婶家，父母很久都没有来看过他，时间长了，连父母的样子也忘了。
婶婶从小就让他干这干那，虽然没有哈利波特那样悲催，打骂兼备，可他也算是一条狗。
他干什么都是错的。
最后他终于明白，因为婶婶并不爱他。
因为不爱，所以做什么都是错的。
他喜欢爬到天台，把两只脚悬空，看着脚下灯火通明的城市，风吹过来，只有他一个人。
背影孤独得黯然销魂。
毕业聚会上，在即将告白的时候却被别人当成了告白工具，成为了那个小写的“i”，没有“love”，也没有“you”。
他慢慢的蹲下，成为了最小最小的“i”，眼泪在眼眶中打着圈，可却没有落下。
可是没有人知道这个小小的“i”的作用。
没有“i”，有哪来的“love you”呢?在这个时候，门被用力地打开了，阳光照射进来，照射在那个小小的“i”上。
那一种感觉，就像是暴风雨过后，阳光就像是子弹一样，不停地对着乌云一梭子一梭子的拼命的开着，打着，噼里啪啦的，直到把乌云打得千疮百孔，撕裂了那一层厚厚的黑暗。
重见天日。
天使走进来，目光如炬。
那一天，是他第一次拽了一把，很拽很拽。
哪怕是在别人的帮助下。
卡塞尔学院，以喜欢颠覆人家世界观为著的学院，一脚踢开了无数的精英，却把那个别人都看不起的，贱狗一般的他给哭着求着了进去。
路明非以为他终于可以拽了。
史无前例S级学生。
可进去了之后，他更加挫败。
卡塞尔学院的确是喜欢颠覆人家世界观，可他却忘了，里面还有一群精英帮凶，个个牛逼到了极点。
他的确是史无前例的，因为他功课差得也是史无前例。
在他该显露时，他没有显露，站在一旁，怂得说着烂话。
他以为很好笑，可是没有人笑，他就在那沉默的环境中干笑了几句，最后不笑了。
可他牛逼的时候，却没有看见。
青铜计划中，明明是他用七宗罪杀死了龙王诺顿，却没有人看见，反而让恺撒抢去了头功。
尼伯龙根里，楚子航昏迷，也是他背起七宗罪，一刀一刀地杀死了龙王，说出了那一句“我重临世界之日，诸逆臣皆当死去”。
巨牛逼，巨拉风埃从来没有人这么拉风牛逼过。
哪怕是有钱到爆，冬天取暖可以拿来烧钱烧整一个冬天的恺撒，或者是苦行僧一般，一抓起村雨就成一杀胚的楚子航，他们都没有。
可还是没有看见。
因为没有看见，所以明明很拉风，明明事后想起来都觉得很骄傲，但还是被人看成一条废柴，可有可无，一上战场一定第一个成为炮灰。
有时候觉得，路明非甘心么?明明很厉害，明明很牛逼很拉风，却被别人看成一个傻子。
一定是不甘心的吧。
“路明非，你没有感觉到绝望，是因为有人不敢让你绝望，总是施舍似的一点点给你些希望。
一旦你绝望了，就会完完全全变成另外一副摸样。
”他侃侃而谈，坚定有力，像个出色的演说家，“可是总有一天你还是会绝望的，因为你一无所有。
你是个废物，是多余的，没有人真的需要你。
你是个笑话，你自始至终从来都没有摆脱过‘血之哀’，偏偏你无法觉察到。
你不感到孤独，哈哈哈哈哈，”他突然狂笑起来，转过身，指着路明非的鼻子，“真有趣，没有听过比这更好笑的笑话了!” “他们给你的爱，就像是从饭碗里拨出来施舍给你的米粒。
”他的声音嘶哑冷酷。
——《龙族1-火之晨曦》 楚子航的孤独来源于那一个雨夜。
也就是那一个雨夜，在他世界观被颠覆的同时，也涉足了那个奇特的世界。
他不喜欢雨，可是却总被人认为他喜欢雨，因为他总喜欢站在雨里，脸没有丝毫的表情，却眺望着远方，似乎在等待着什么。
雨声响着，似乎有熟悉的曲调在雨幕中飘荡着。
别人或许以为他耍帅，他在扮酷，他喜欢下雨，他认为这样很诗情画意……可他也只是想等到那一个男人而已。
那个是他“爸爸”的男人。
真的是爸爸。
在那个雨夜里，他失去了那个男人，没有人记得他，连妈妈也没有。
只有他记住了他，让他不至于被世界遗忘。
他的心里，永远有一条永远都走不完的高速路，高速路上，有着一辆千疮百孔的迈巴-赫。
他是狮心会会长，执行部的高级执行员，执行过十二次任务没有一次失败。
他的确很牛逼。
楚子航和路明非同一间学校。
他们并不认识对方，只是知道对方而已。
路明非因为楚子航低调的牛逼，楚子航因为路明非史无前例的衰。
在中学里，楚子航对于路明非的印象是最深的。
因为他也感受到了路明非的孤独吧?那种孤独，再怎么伪装，那也只是一种伪装，剥开重重伪装，露出来的，是黑色的脆弱的孤独。
身为一个面瘫，一个杀胚，他似乎从来都没有过爱恋。
可他却喜欢上了那个叫做夏弥的女孩。
——尽管最后知道，她就是他们所要杀的那条龙。
那条名叫“耶梦加得”的龙。
长手长脚的天使在罢工了的地铁站为挤过栏杆为他们接可乐。
天使在过山车上欢呼，强烈的风吹起她的头发，头发在风中如灵蛇般蜿蜒飞舞。
爆炸中，天使驾御着风朝他飞来，头发依旧是飞舞，裙摆就像是一朵花般盛开着。
他睁开眼睛，便看见了天使俯身看着他，就像在亲吻他的脸庞。
天使在他昏睡的时候守在他的身旁，在罗嗦中悄然睡去，阳光照在她洁净的面孔上，盛开出大-片大-片的白色花朵。
天使在他住院的时候照顾他，端着一碗银耳莲子羹。
天使大大咧咧的，和路明非一样喜欢说着烂话。
地铁站里，天使趴在他的背上，场面温馨而安心。
就在这个时候，她走到了楚子航的心里去了吧。
到了最后，天使变成了强大的龙王，黄金瞳对视着他的黄金瞳，默默地说了声“再见”。
随后轰然倒地，鲜血在她背后凝成了真正的翅膀。
或许楚子航并没有感觉到自己喜欢的是夏弥，或许他在夏弥的房间内停留，看着日落时知道了，当他知道时，已太晚。
但那份爱却是如此清晰的存在着。
因为存在着，所以无论怎么努力，都无法忘记。
没有言说的爱，就像是一种字，字字珠玑，被一把雕刻刀狠狠的刻进了骨髓中去。
是那样的刻骨铭心。
它在命运中化为灰烬，却在记忆中拔节生根。
“你们根本不了解龙类，龙和人一样，最开始只是降临这个世界的孩子。
”又想起她的声音了。
其实这句话真是愤懑孤独啊，可是她那么冷冰冰地说出来，满是嘲讽，绝不示弱。
她是个从不示弱的女孩…即使那么孤独地活在这个世界上，也从未偏离自己的方向，即便对着空无一人的物资，也会大声说，“我回来了!”应该是这样的吧?他觉得有点累了，很想睡一觉，于是合衣躺下，双手静静地搭在胸前。
他用了半个小时作完了功课，回忆了那些不愿遗忘的事，现在这些事又多了几件。
然后他缓缓地合上眼睛，此刻夕阳收走了最后的余晖，夜色如幕布把他覆盖。
他清楚地知道这一次醒来，将不会看见阳光里天使低头，似乎要亲吻他的嘴唇。
——《龙族2-悼亡者之瞳》说真的，读完这些人，我仿佛也感受到了那种孤独。
不被理解，只是默默地看着夜晚的风，一个人在自己的世界里想自己干的事情。
我喜欢把房门关上。
因为把房门关上了，整个世界就只有我一个人，只有我一个人在默默地坐着，干着想干的事情。
外面那嘈杂、残酷、肮脏的世界，与我就没有任何关系了。
我的心里也会有一个死小孩。
她写着她最爱的同人，画着她最爱的漫画，她或许成绩不好，可她却在为某一些东西执著。
她会倔强地记住很多东西，她会在没有人的时候自己与自己说话，她会打字飞快，她会收集许许多多的东西，她会在雨中行走，她会在黑夜里独自一人听着歌，她会倔强地不哭……无论是多么成熟的人，在他们心里，依旧会有这么一个死小孩，他孤独无助不被理解，可他却被套上了一件件的伪装。
古龙说过：“真正的寂寞是一种深入骨髓的空虚，一种令你发狂的空虚。
纵然在欢呼声中，也会感到内心的空虚、惆怅与沮丧。
”欢呼声中，你默默地站在那个地方，看着喜欢的女孩与别的男人拥抱，你缩着脖子站在那里，傻逼透顶。
深入骨髓，那个雨夜的孤独与寂寞，令你发狂。
即使受伤昏迷过去，也死死的握着那一把钥匙，同样傻逼透顶。
都是那样的傻逼透顶。
倔强的泪水却始终没有流下。
心中的孤独与寂寞，已经溢满，迟早有一天，它们会变成绝望。
这首诗是我在龙族3书后面抄的，感觉写得很好，读了后很想哭。
如果你藏着一些孤单，但也埋着一些热血; 如果你偶尔有些迷茫，但也偶尔有些梦想; 如果你忘记了一些东西，但是又希望能记起…… 如果你还记得孤寂天台上曾有一个少眼同样孤寂远眺， 如果你还记得曾有一个红发姑娘在你最无助的时候如天使一般推开门， 如果你还记得你在水下八十米，整个世界如同只有你一人，那个姑娘还陪在你身边。
有些爱从未被你唱响过，有些火种饿从为被你点燃过。
可是你心里始终有着，声与光。
如果你还记得赤色狂雨里你曾听过一首温馨的歌，你在流泪， 如果你还记得白色病房里有个女孩曾安睡在你身边，你在沉默， 如果你还记得白色病房里有个女孩曾安睡在你身边，你在沉默， 如果你还记得黑色地铁里你曾背着一个女孩一步步向前走，你在呼吸， 如果你还记得青色绒帘旁你打开一个女孩的五斗柜，满目灰尘，你在抚摸， 你在阳光里垂下头，回忆曾亲吻过你脸颊的哪个天时，即使她不再出现。
有些爱梢纵即逝，却刻骨铭心。
它在命运里烧成灰烬，却在记忆里拔节生根。
你是路明非，你是楚子航，你是青春时迷茫却倔强的灵魂。
你是孤单，你是执著，是年少时游走在时光里的骄傲。
你是血之哀，也是梦之子，流动在血管，凝结在双眸。
龙，人。
两种截然不同的族类，生命树无数枝桠上的两条主干，相互纠缠争斗，无穷无尽。
看《龙族》之前我对龙并没太多了解，给我的印象也就仅仅是童话里抢公主最后还被骑士单枪匹马亦或者组团杀掉的邪恶生物而已。
然而，当我接触了《龙族》这本书之后，龙的形象在我心中一下子就鲜活起来了，从最初的单薄记忆渐渐变得有血有肉，仿佛他们就这般真实地存在于世界的某一处，一个我们触碰不到的地方。
或许有人会有疑问，为什么在上面我用的是“他”，而不是通常所用的“它”
因为某种莫名的敬畏。
青铜与火之王诺顿和康坦斯丁，大地与山之王芬里厄和耶梦加得。
在他们身上，我竟感受不到龙族该有的丁点残暴杀戮气息。
我所见的，仅仅是某种近乎卑微的亲情，甚至比大多数的人类还要纯粹的多。
这样纯粹的情感，在如今繁忙空虚的现实社会中，已然少之又少。
个人认为，在《龙族》这部书的世界里，没有绝对的正邪，龙族崇尚“权与力”，可是人类何尝不是
正是因为人类的贪婪，造就了如今的混血种。
禁忌的血脉，权柄的窃贼。
我看见了那些年轻混血种们的野心，想要取代龙族，成为新的“龙族”的野心
《龙族》的前两部侧重于描写混血种与龙族的斗争，但在第三部却开始着重写混血种之间的勾心斗角。
虽名为《龙族》，然而目前我看见的却是混血种之间的勾心斗角，人类的劣根性被发挥的淋漓尽致。
急求电影《七宗罪》英文观后感一篇~~~英文简单一些，本人英语水平不是很高谢谢!!
Seven, a dark, grisly, horrifying and intelligent thriller, may be too disturbing for many people, I imagine, although if you can bear to watch, it you will see filmmaking of a high order. It tells the story of two detectives - one ready to retire, the other at the start of his career - and their attempts to capture a perverted serial killer who is using the Seven Deadly Sins as his scenario.As the movie opens, we meet Somerset (Morgan Freeman), a meticulous veteran cop who lives a lonely bachelor's life in what looks like a furnished room. Then he meets Mills (Brad Pitt), an impulsive young cop who actually asked to be transferred into Somerset's district. The two men investigate a particularly gruesome murder, in which a fat man was tied hand and feet and forced to eat himself to death.His crime was the crime of Gluttony. Soon Somerset and Mills are investigating equally inventive murders involving Greed, Sloth, Lust and the other deadly sins. In each case, the murder method is appropriate, and disgusting (one victim is forced to cut off a pound of his own flesh; another is tied to a bed for a year; a third, too proud of her beauty, is disfigured and then offered the choice of a call for help or sleeping pills). Somerset concludes that the killer, John Doe, is using his crimes to preach a sermon.The look of Seven is crucial to its effect. This is a very dark film, the gloom often penetrated only by the flashlights of the detectives. Even when all the lights are turned on in the apartments of the victims, they cast only wan, hopeless pools of light.Although the time of the story is the present, the set design suggests the 1940s; Gary Wissner, the art director, goes for dark blacks and browns, deep shadows, lights of deep yellow, and a lot of dark wood furniture. It rains almost all the time.In this jungle of gloom, Somerset and Mills tread with growing alarm. Somerset intuits that the killer is using books as the inspiration for his crimes, and studies Dante, Milton and Chaucer for hints. Mills settles for the Cliff Notes versions. A break in the case comes with Somerset's sudden hunch that the killer might have a library card. But the corpses pile up, in cold fleshy detail, as disturbingly graphic as I've seen in a commercial film. The only glimmers of life and hope come from Tracy (Gwyneth Paltrow), Mills' wife.A movie like this is all style. The material by itself could have been handled in many ways, but the director, David Fincher (Alien 3), goes for evocative atmosphere, and the writer, Andrew Kevin Walker, writes dialogue that for Morgan Freeman, in particular, is wise, informed and poetic. (Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me, he says, finds me disagreeable.) Eventually, it becomes clear that the killer's sermon is being preached directly to the two policemen, and that in order to understand it, they may have to risk their lives and souls.Seven is unique in one detail of its construction; it brings the killer onscreen with half an hour to go, and gives him a speaking role. Instead of being simply the quarry in a chase, he is revealed as a twisted but articulate antagonist, who has devised a horrible plan for concluding his sermon. (The actor playing the killer is not identified by name in the ads or opening credits, and so I will leave his identity as another of his surprises.) Seven is well-made in its details, and uncompromising in the way it presents the disturbing details of the crimes. It is certainly not for the young or the sensitive. Good as it is, it misses greatness by not quite finding the right way to end. All of the pieces are in place, all of the characters are in position, and then - I think the way the story ends is too easy. Satisfying, perhaps. But not worthy of what has gone before.
