Se7en Ending Explained - When Evil Wins

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  @libbynone6546 · 5 years ago (edited)

  The way he yells "deteectiiiiive!!!" always gets under my skin like a damn snake...

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  @charliebrown1796 · 5 years ago

  I love Se7en and Kevin Spacey’s monologue at the end affirms for me that we are all capable of any level of evil as long as we can justify it to ourselves.

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  @OrganicWolf19 · 5 years ago

  Somerset and John Doe are like a little angel/devil in the shoulders of Miles and pushing him to act. I also noted that Somerset displays virtue in opposition to the sins that are being displayed, he rejects the coffee Miles offers him before the  Gluttony  Kill is revealed, he is Charitable with helping Miles with Research before Greed, he advices Miles to have Mercy instead of Wrath. Still the path of virtue hasnt given him happiness or hope.

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  @MyBloodSingsForYou · 5 years ago

  I remember seeing this the night it premiered. I don't think a single person in the theater expected that ending.

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  @rhythmoriented · 5 years ago

  This and several other 80’s and early 90’s films signaled a return to noir, prompting the term neo noir. PLEASE cover the topic of neo noir cinema.

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  @llchapman1234 · 5 years ago

  The young couple's loving, "perfect couple" scene at the beginning basically guarantees that one of them is doomed to die.

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  @str8a · 5 years ago

  "The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." What's eerie about this quote is that Ernest Hemingway committed suicide.

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  @Zelkiiro · 5 years ago

  I don&apos;t think the movie is saying the world is a fine place at all--Morgan Freeman clearly says that he only agrees with the second part of Hemingway&apos;s quote. I think the movie is saying that, yeah, the world sucks and is full of despair and evil, but if we keep fighting against it, maybe one day it <b>will</b> become a fine place.

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  @benwasserman8223 · 5 years ago

  I don&apos;t think Hollywood could even pull a villain reveal like Seven&apos;s in the social media era.

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  @ImpulseGenerator · 5 years ago (edited)

  This is probably the movie I rewatch the most. It might sound strange, but I find a lot of hope and positivity in it.<br>For me, the movie&apos;s secretly more about optimism than it lets on.<br>The fact that it <b>doesn&apos;t</b> go for the 100% bleak gritty card, it becomes something more through that.<br>There are little comic relief scenes, like the one in the apartment with the metro, or the *how&apos;s this for culture*, or &quot;if I shave this nipple off will it count under workman&apos;s comp?&quot; that give a little insight into how the human spirit can persist and find happy moments even in the darkest of times. To me, the movie&apos;s about fighting for what&apos;s right in a dark world, and still finding moments of hope.<br><br>Too many movies these days go for the &quot;gritty and dark&quot; thing way too obviously.<br>Se7en pulls it off because it&apos;s not trying too hard. It portrays it like it is, and isn&apos;t afraid to show levity and hope. What&apos;s darkness really without at least some hope and levity? That&apos;s where the power and resilience of the human spirit comes in.<br><br>Love your videos!

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  @petermcconville0 · 5 years ago

  That moment you compare Phoebe from Friends to Jeffrey Dahmer.

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  @arlaur · 5 years ago

  No mention of the fact that Hemingway, whose quotation is used as a note of hope about the world, actually committed suicide?

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