http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1giVzxyoclE&t=1m35s Se7en is a great film that essentially helped to launch David Fincher's career following the abysmal failure that was Alien 3, cementing him as an auteur of gritty, unpleasant filmmaking that's beautifully shot and superbly acted. The tension has been slowly building throughout the film, and when we finally come to meet John Doe (a previously un-advertised Kevin Spacey), it seems clear that this sick game is going to come to an end. However, when Brad Pitt convenes with him in the desert, while Morgan Freeman's character receives a box, it all goes to Hell. The head of Pitt's wife (Gwyneth Paltrow) is inside said box, and realising that Pitt is likely about to kill Doe - therefore completing the final, seventh sin, wrath - Freeman darts over to try and stop it. This is all spelled out adequately for the audience, but things start going bad once Doe tells Pitt what he's done, and in a rare example of the talented actor over-performing, he starts screaming, "What's in the box!?". While grief is palpable, the whining just completely cuts through the suspense and horror of the scene, something exacerbated by the intrusive score. Furthermore, Freeman is forced to completely shove the self-fulfilling prophecy down our throat, and when Doe tells Pitt that his wife was pregnant, the music should have stopped. It should be a quiet, shocking moment, with Doe following up, "Oh, he didn't know", before Pitt kills him in cold blood. But, it's an overly bombastic scene that could have been so much better, ending the film on a more ominous and disturbing note, even if the film is still largely successful as a grimy thriller.