SE7EN [1995]

Let He Who Is Without Sin Try To Survive

 

[David Mills]: Do you like what you do for a living? These things you see? 

[Man in Massage Parlour Booth]: No, I don't. But that's life.

[David Mills]: Wait, I thought all you did was kill innocent people. 

[John Doe]: Innocent? Is that supposed to be funny? 

An obese man... a disgusting man who could barely stand up; a man who if you saw him on the street, you'd point him out to your friends so that they could join you in mocking him; a man, who if you saw him while you were eating, you wouldn't be able to finish your meal. 

After him, I picked the lawyer and I know you both must have been secretly thanking me for that one. 

This is a man who dedicated his life to making money by lying with every breath that he could muster to keeping murderers and rapists on the streets! 

[David Mills]: Murderers?

[John Doe]: A woman.

[David Mills]: Murderers, John, like yourself? 

[John Doe]: A woman... so ugly on the inside she couldn't bear to go on living if she couldn't be beautiful on the outside. 

A drug dealer, a drug dealing pederast, actually! 

And let's not forget the disease-spreading whore! 

Only in a world this shitty could you even try to say these were innocent people and keep a straight face. But that's the point. 

We see a deadly sin on every street corner, in every home, and we tolerate it. 

We tolerate it because it's common, it's trivial. 

We tolerate it morning, noon, and night.Well, not anymore. 

I'm setting the example. 

What I've done is going to be puzzled over and studied and followed... forever.

[John Doe]: Don't ask me to pity those people. 

I don't mourn them any more than I do the thousands that died at Sodom and Gomorrah.

[William Sommerset]: Is that to say, John, that what you were doing was God's good work? 

[John Doe]: The Lord works in mysterious ways.

[William Sommerset]: I just don't think I can continue to live in a place that embraces and nurtures apathy as if it was virtue. 

[David Mills]: You're no different. You're no better.

[William Sommerset]: I didn't say I was different or better. I'm not. 

Hell, I sympathize; I sympathize completely. 

Apathy is the solution. 

I mean, it's easier to lose yourself in drugs than it is to cope with life. 

It's easier to steal what you want than it is to earn it. 

It's easier to beat a child than it is to raise it. 

Hell, love costs: it takes effort and work.

People don't want a hero, they want to eat cheeseburgers, play the lotto and watch television.

[William Sommerset]

It seems that envy is my sin

[John Doe]

Nothing wrong with a man taking pleasure in his work. 

I won't deny my own personal desire to turn each sin against the sinner. 

[John Doe]

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