Born in the wrong era? No. There is no wrong era.

saw se7en.
as a film...it's brilliant.
tight acting. good plot. nice twists. apt music. superb direction.
and of course. full of thought.
heh....i wanna watch it again.

(ramblings start from here. some effort has been put in to try and organise my thoughts, but at some points i think i'm just going on and on and on(possibly without making much sense)...too many things to talk about la...and definitely not comprehensive also. likely to have misinterpreted too...i wish i could write exhaustively on these shows..but i dun have the time, and i think my brain can't handle it ba..)(heh. end of disclaimer)

like fight club, this show was disturbing and dark.
unlike fight club though, this show was rather believable.
fight club was too fantastic liao. but se7en...hmm..is..quite possible..
i mean if zodiac happened, then i think se7en could happen too.
if i could, i'd watch se7en and fight club again and compare the shows abit more.
still, while both are shows, i think they serve as very sharp commentaries on certain perspectives that society in general holds.

fight club...i can't remember...but i think it showed that if man gave up his "humanity" and became "basic" or "primal", having no regard for his conscience or the law, it would result in anarchy...whose consequences are dire. and it can drive one to question why we are not like that yet..the show may have its own answer to that, but i don't remember. very terrifying to see what would happen if everybody did as he "saw fit".

se7en...i think touched on the moral apathy so prevalent in society today. the seven sins that everybody tolerated, john doe held in utter disgust. and somerset was aware of it too. and he couldn't stand it, tracy also.
another thing was that it showed how evil man was.
first, that a man was responsible for all the crimes...not the devil..
and also...how mills snapped at the last bit. mills, who barely used his gun even during his 5 years at homicide, emptied it in john doe. just like that.
kinda like what doe predicted mills would do if they were in a room alone and there were no consequences to mills' actions. even doe, who condemned all those sins, knew that he too was guilty of sin. and he punished himself for it.

anyway!
whatever was intended in the shows, i'll write more about it next time la. maybe.

the thing that is more pressing in my mind is actually...the darknes of the human heart.
because...however fictional fight club and se7en may be, we must realise that these were conceived in the minds of men.

to think..some regular guy like me(ok not "like me" la..i know i strugglng to clear my a's..but i mean some normal human) could've thought of such twisted murders and stories...it's disturbing?

those murders never happened in reality. that warped thinking presented in fight club is an extreme of what exists today.
but man is capable of imagining such evil.

man.
not the "devil".
man.
me.
i am a "mere" man.
and i am capable that.
i know i am.

and if there were no consequences to such actions.
we might actually have witnessed more of such things today. we might actually have been responsible for such crimes.
if there was no Law to protect man from himself. no hand of God to restrain evil.

...this would be hell.

and the worst thing is...we don't realise it.

WAH. GOOD THING NOT LIKE THAT.
GOOD THING OUR GOD IS A LOVING GOD.
and the best thing...
the most unbelieveably-unbelieveable-but-still-true-despite-all-that thing...

that loving God chose to save us.
rotten sinners.
chose to save me.
rotten sinner.

THANKS BE TO GOD!