Chapter 1297: The Seven Deadly Sins
The film opens in an atmosphere that is quiet to the eerie, peaceful to the depressing, and the continuous rainstorm fills the entire large screen composed of cyan, gray and black with gloom, restlessness and restlessness.
Samosei is a criminal officer at the local police department and a homicide specialist who has been a police officer for thirty-two years. At the end of his career, Samose felt not reluctance, but relief from exhaustion, and he even couldn't wait to enjoy retirement.
Sent from a young man to the big city from a small place to take over his job, Mills was full of drive and egotistical, and his experience in murder cases over the past five years had made him ready to make a career in the city. But Mills's enthusiasm hit a wall in front of Shamose, who not only did not feel cold to Mills, but even treated him coldly, and the arrogant Mills seemed unimpressed with Samose.
In less than five minutes, the premise of the story has been explained, David Fincher only used a case of a wife who was unbearable to domestic violence and impulsively shot her husband, and introduced Samosey and Mills into the story without a trace, and used three or two dialogues to outline the prototype of the personalities of the two characters, which made the audience in the movie theater refresh a lot.
Nicholas sat in the cinema, and could hear the voices of the audience taking advantage of the short time to discuss in detail at the beginning of the film, and the failure of "Alien 3" made many people question David's directing ability, but today's opening is obviously a big surprise.
It's just that while everyone else is ignoring the opening of the film, Nicholas is engrossed in the opening credits, as he finds some unusual images. The opening of "The Seven Deadly Sins" is full of eerie horror, these scattered images seem to depict a person cutting off his fingerprints, and then recording his weird thoughts in a diary, and finally there are many photos and screenshots of the murder, this fragmented and fragmented frame makes the atmosphere of horror and suspense fill the cinema in an instant.
However, Nicholas always felt that something was wrong, just a pair of hands appeared on the screen, and there were no other details, but he always felt that these hands were somewhat familiar, but he couldn't say why. Relatively speaking, he noticed another clear detail, in the list of cast members, David Fincher, Brad Pitt, and Morgan Freeman all appeared, but Hugo's name did not appear, which is really strange.
However, the entire opening of the film is less than a minute, and most viewers don't notice this detail at all, and Nicholas can only temporarily bury this idea in his heart.
The film cuts to the chase again in a calm mood, with Mills and his wife, Tracy, a sweet and happy morning bringing a touch of warmth in the storm outside the window, but then a call to the police station transports Mills into another world.
On Monday, the first homicide occurred, the first case Mills had arrived in the city and the last before Samosai retired. In a squalid apartment infested with cockroaches, an extremely obese man freezes in his chair, his face buried deep in the bowl full of pasta in front of him.
After an autopsy, the medical examiner confirmed that the man died as a result of overeating, and the coroner confirmed that the deceased may have been forced to eat for up to 12 hours, until he fell unconscious, and then went through torture and torture to continue eating, and eventually died.
Samosa believed that the murderer had more clean means if he wanted to kill someone, and the murderer deliberately chose this complicated and wordy way, which was obviously premeditated. Samose thinks the killer will definitely not stop there. So, Samose asked to get out of the case, and he didn't want to be bogged down in the case before he retired in a week, because he knew it would be tricky, which Mills didn't understand at all.
Samose asked his superiors to withdraw from the investigation of the case, but at the same time did not think that Mills was up to the task, because the case was too complex and heavy for Mills, who had just arrived in the city, and Mills was obviously inexperienced. This made Mills particularly rebellious, and he tried to prove his abilities. But in the end, his boss asked Samose to continue with the case while Mills went on to work on other cases.
Monday's obese man's case has not yet cleared up any leads, and another one happened on Tuesday. A lawyer was killed in his office, and Mills became the head of the case. When their colleagues in the police department learned that Mills was in charge of the case, they expressed distrust of Mills.
The lawyer died in the office of the firm, and a word was written on the floor in blood, "greed".
The police boss feared that Mills would not be able to take charge of the case, because the death of the wealthy lawyer had caught the attention of all the news media, so he hoped that Samose would take over. Samose, on the other hand, expressed his disappointment with a society full of violence, hatred and discrimination, where justice has been shrouded in a cloud, and he no longer has unrealistic dreams, he wants justice but does not give his own share for it.
Samosa returned to the scene of the first crime, carefully examined every clue, and finally found a word in the back of the refrigerator, "gluttony", and a note that read, "The long and arduous road will see the light when you get out of prison." This is from John Milton. Milton's Paradise. lost)", which reminds Samosak of the seven deadly sins of Christianity: gluttony, greed, laziness, anger, pride, and lewdness. Lust and jealousy.
The first case, according to Samoset, is gluttony and the second is greed, which is a serial killer case and will be followed by five more homicides. Unfortunately, this point of view was not taken seriously by his superiors and Mills.
Samose refuses to accept the case, but Mills can't wait to make a difference. Leaving the police station, Samosai, who got into a taxi, heard the driver ask, "Where do you want to go?" Shamose looked out the window at the incessant torrential rain and said meaningfully, "Stay away from this hellish place." ”
At this moment, only twenty-five minutes have passed in the movie, but the tense and eerie atmosphere in the air makes people shudder, and the endless torrential rain makes the chest breathless and breathless, and the commotion of the entire movie theater disappears, falling into a kind of unaware silence and tension, and even the audience itself is not aware of this abnormal change.
Nicholas couldn't help frowning slightly, he could vaguely feel that this was not a simple case, and the title of the movie confirmed the seven deadly sins mentioned by Samosey, but such stories are not common in Hollywood scripts, but they are not uncommon, and what is so special about the movie? Also, why didn't Hugo show up?
However, Nicholas can also feel that the shots and atmosphere of the movie are under the control of the director, which invisibly reveals a coldness and weirdness, which quiets down all the noise in the cinema, and the eerie coolness that emanates from the darkness makes the temperature in September become cold, which makes Nicholas gradually give up thinking and enter the plot.
Although Samose refused to take care of the case, he went to the library and wrote a list of books related to the seven deadly sins, hoping to help Mills in his investigation. But the impatient Mills apparently thought the books were of no use at all.
Tracey invited Samosey to her home for dinner, and Mills didn't seem very happy, but Tricy had a very pleasant chat with Samosey and learned about the happy life of the young couple, which also eased the relationship between Samosey and Mills, and the two talked about the details of Tuesday's lawyer's case after dinner, and they found out that the murderer was likely to use atonement as a preaching to force the deceased to repent, as if it were ...... Missionaries in general.
Immediately, Samosey and Mills thought of the key point from the clues left at the law firm scene, they left Tracy alone at home, and found an upside-down painting in the office, hiding the words "Save Me" with fingerprints on the back of the painting, and found that the fingerprints did not come from the victim.
After a quiet Wednesday, on Thursday, the police identified the suspect from fingerprints, a suspect suffering from severe mental illness and a criminal offense, whom the murdered lawyer had successfully defended in court. Apparently this was the suspect who best matched their suspicions, and Mills thought so, but Samose always felt that there was something strange about it.
Nicholas involuntarily adjusted his sitting position, his brain was also clouded by the progress of the story, and even he didn't realize that his hands were crossed in front of his chest, his muscles tense to protect himself, staring at the big screen tightly.
Alarm. When the inspectors arrived at the suspect's apartment fully armed, they found a bound and nearly corrupted man on his bed, with the word "lazy" written on the wall above the bed. Everyone thought the man was dead, and Mills and Samose began to search the scene for evidence, but at that moment, the rotting corpse, which was almost skinny and boneless, suddenly coughed and struggled, as if it were a corpse, which alarmed all the police in the room. It's all a mess.
Hearing the coughing sound, Nicholas also involuntarily grabbed his arm, almost the whole person bounced, and there was an exclamation in the movie theater, the frightened commotion broke the silence that lasted for nearly fifty minutes in the movie theater, and the sound of rapid breathing was endless, and then people realized that they seemed to have forgotten their breathing for so long in the past, and even the sound of their hearts beating quietly disappeared into the flow of blood, until this time, The trembling that followed the sudden fright awakened the stiffness and fear in the entire cinema.
The thunderous drumbeat hit Nicholas's eardrums heavily, and he involuntarily gulped in a gulp, and the suffocating sense of urgency unconsciously plunged him into an endless panic!