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Who actually understood the movie point ?


Did you?

That scene with the "weather-man" interviewing Mickey was so deep that I just understood some years later. He said and i quote:

« It's just murder. All God's creatures do it. You look in the forests and you see species killing other species, our species killing all species including the forests, and we just call it industry, not murder. »

« You'll never understand, Wayne. You and me, we're not even the same species. I used to be you, then I evolved. From where you're standing, you're a man. From where I'm standing, you're an ape. You're not even an ape. You're a media person. Media's like the weather, only it's man-made weather. Murder? It's pure. You're the one made it impure. You're buying and selling fear. You say "why?" I say "why bother?" »

I quote John Doe from the movie Se7en who represents my thoughts:

« People will barely be able to comprehend it, but they won't be able to deny it. »


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Yep, the egomaniacal ravings of serial killers trying to justify their atrocities are always entertaining.

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THAT was the point. Sex and violence and horror and madness are entertaining even when it's real people being raped and murdered. The cartoon fantasy avatars of the characters as a mechanism for gaining power over their childhood traumas…the media love affair with the protagonists…the obsession of the officer, the warden, and the tv shill and the fact that there's a monster inside everyone.

OP didn't get it. It's not about the cool sounding poetic ravings of a madman about how killing is fine but that the raving is fascinating and that in a dangerous way it resounds within all of us to some extent, making it compelling even as it horrifies.

This is one of my favorite movies. Never get tired of watching it…even though I think the alternate ending where MIckey and Mallory are murdered by another equally monstrous person was the ending they deserved, if not the one that fit the film.

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What I got from it was this: If we can be manipulated within two hours by a film to root for the two main characters who happen to be psychos, what are years of TV and news doing to our brains?

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Yep this a very deep monologue. It does answer the question of Theodicy. This question and its answer, by the way , is in many texts and works of art, yet people close eyes and deny it.

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