A Qoute

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man
David Hume

SE7EN

I saw se7ev for the third time translated in Persian and transmitted by the Iranian TV. I expected to see a full cut version of it and fully changed dialogues in some scenes. However, I enjoyed the move for the third time and saved the remaining four time slots for the future.

Seeing this mo I for the first time was very shocking. As story goes on, you cannot guess what will be happen. Although after a couple of killing it reveals the most important motive of the killer but the story and also the movie do not want the audience to guess in advance what is going on.

When I saw it shortly afterward for the second time I considered the dialogues more carefully to get the idea better. It worked out some story puzzle made in my mind. Clearly, the joy was not the same as the first but it was different.

If a movie left you thinking after the The-End sign, I consider it a good movie. I can say after a decade and for the third time that it is still a good movie.

This time a frame of the most important scene, the killer pointing gun to the young detective’s head in the rain, caught my eye. This part satisfies all the things the director was after: No clue to recognize the face of the killer, showing the power of killer, and in my point of view, the influence of the killer to choose the story line.

There was also another point regarding to the titling of the movie. At the end you saw Kevin Spacy’s name not in the beginning. This is another director trick to hide the killer.

Anyway, there is always some stories and believes about the numbers. The number Seven is believed to be a holly number. As it is sporadically used in almost all cultures such as Seven Sins, Seven days of a week, seven trays (haft sin in Nowrooz ceremonies in Iran and Persian-oriented region), seven seas, and so forth, the movie showed seven killing in seven days according to seven sins. [And this is my seven paragraph too ;)]