Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Lust. Pride. Envy. Wrath. Seven deadly sins that have served as moral signposts for centuries. A system meant to guide behavior or warn against it. Seven takes this framework and shows how dangerous it gets when someone treats it as absolute truth. It becomes a checklist designed to force people to pay attention. The result is a series of murders that call individual morality into question.

Directed by David Fincher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker, Seven is a neo-noir, deeply unsettling psychological thriller that digs into the darkness people try to hide. At its center are two detectives who see the case in very different ways. One tries to keep his distance. The other throws himself into it and gradually loses control over his own reactions, which works in the killer’s favor. The core of the film lies in this moral experiment and in two investigators who are forced to confront their own weaknesses and inner shadows.

The story unfolds in a city where everything feels heavy. Grey. Overcrowded. A place that shows how quickly people grow numb when they face the worst every single day. Seven shows how easily a rigid moral system can be twisted and how difficult it becomes to stay grounded once you become part of a game you cannot control.