- The sins were used in medieval sermons. There were seven cardinal virtues and seven deadly sins used as teaching tools.- Yeah, yeah, yeah, like in, uh, The Parson's Tale and... What's this? Uh, Dante. You read them?
- Yeah.
- Well, parts.
15 seconds sound clip from the Se7en (1995) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:39:22.378 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- All right, let's take a fresh look at these.
- Even though the corpse is there, look through it. Edit out the initial shock.
- Trick is to find one item, one detail and focus on it until it's an exhausted possibility.
- Just gonna get another beer.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, the seven terraces of purgation.
- Yeah, yeah, right. But there, pride comes first, not gluttony.
- Yeah, well, for now, let's just consider that the books were the killer's inspiration.
- The sermons were about atonement for sin.
- These murders are like forced attrition.
- Attrition. It's when you regret your sins, but not because you love God.
- Oh, like because someone's sticking a fucking gun in your face.
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