A vain model has her face surgically disfigured. Given the choice between living with a scarred face or taking a fatal dose of sleeping pills, she chooses death, proving Doe’s thesis on human vanity.

Se7en is structured around the seven deadly sins (gluttony, greed, sloth, lust, pride, envy, and wrath), used by the antagonist John Doe as a moral manifesto.

There is a nuance to the search that separates cinephiles from pirates.

Moral Absolutism in a Gray City: The Twisted Ethics of John Doe

4. The Philosophical Index: A Battle for the Soul of Society