Compared with Brad Pitt's role in the film, the old agent Somerset played by Morgan Foreman is more like a commentator. In other words, Seven Deaths looks like a biography written by Somerset before his retirement. According to the content of the film, the seven deadly sins of the film are gluttony, greed, laziness, lust, pride, jealousy and anger. The first five victims died in a chilling way, and all the victims had experienced inhuman torture. The problem is that the latter two crimes, jealousy and anger, occur on both sides of the so-called "good and evil".
David Mills, a special agent played by Brad Pitt, represents justice and shoots and kills his enemy in constant anger. Mills only killed an unarmed prisoner who was ready to confess. Kevinspacey fowler's John Doe is really a criminal genius. The moment Agent Mills fired, he won the biggest victory. If Mills holds back his anger and doesn't shoot, John will be imprisoned endlessly, and he will never be able to finish the punishment for the last two crimes of jealousy and anger.
And John not only succeeded, but also got the simplest way to die. Knowing clearly that he was the law enforcer representing justice, knowing clearly that this was a trap, and knowing clearly that John was deliberately provoking himself, Mills chose to shoot and kill the enemy in front of him no matter how many times his partner reminded him. This is the core of the seven deadly sins-the world is not beautiful.
The film expressed this idea more than once. In a conversation between Somerset and Mills' girlfriend, he said that he didn't want children because he wanted his children to be born in such a dirty and dark world in the future. So he let his girlfriend abort the baby. The most obvious place is at the end of the film. When Mills was taken away by a police car for killing criminals, Somerset said the line at the beginning of the article: This is a beautiful world and worth fighting for. I agree with the second part.