What makes Se7en a thriller?
Thrillers use tension, supsension and excitment, the genre depends on adrenaline rush using suprise, anxiety and terror. Their are many sub genres under thrillers including: comedy thriller, crime thriller, Erotic thriller and spy thriller. Common themes throughout thrillers involve kidnappers, murders and ransoms.
Se7en follows a similar plot to most thrillers in that the main storyline involves a mystery that needs to be solved, in this case the mystery of the seven sins.
It also follows the quest for the "good guys" in their desire for justice and morality, with Mills and Somerset fighting for the justice of the murders of the seven victims (imbd.com).
Se7en also has a climatic ending in where Mills in a force of rage murders John Doe for cutting off his wifes head, which is exactly what John Doe wanted him to do. His whole plan is unraveled at the end.
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