Love and Fear.. Who Killed Whom ?!!

Rating: 8/10 (20 July 2007)

I know, all of the previous comments told you all. But I want to say something of my own.
This great thriller will live longer than its likes, for a lot of reasons. The one that I want to talk about is the strong focusing on the characterization firstly in this script. Because this is something really rare in any of the American thrillers nowadays.
Here, you have 2 point of views that come from 2 different generations, or simply 2 kinds of human beings.
The first is (David Mills), played by (Brad Pitt), who is so rash, tense, running mostly after his sensations, and always relies on the photos, the shape of things. But despite his true zeal, courage, and idealism he is so unwise, very impetuous, and can easily hurt or lose himself. He is too weak to wait justice, so he goes and gets it by his hand, because he is a slave for his excitability.. his emotionality.
The other one (William Somerset), played by (Morgan Freeman) is an earlier generation, who has all the goodness and rationality. He is discreet and cold proficient expert, who relies on the books. This one is not perfect either. He is too feeble to stand love, its pain, responsibilities, or loss. So there is no joyful thing about his life, nor lasting thing in it!
Both of them make together one perfect unit; so they succeed in pursuit the killer. But HEY, it's not (Lethal Weapon). So you'll have them both at variance, too contradictory, and the only clear medial between them is the first's wife. Therefore, when she died, and (Mills) killed the killer; the borderline already ended, and there was no medial anymore. So separation became the fate.
They are 2 very irreconcilable ways, persons, or feelings: the love which kills the fear; so (Mills) lost his life. And the love which is killed by fear; so (Somerset) is losing his own. And as for (John Doe), played by (Kevin Spacey), the limit went to extremes; so he had his fear, or his love, or maybe both, killed too long ago. He despised the extremism of the human lusts, because he wasn't a human himself. He lost his humanity completely. Hence, he became a killing machine, a loose madness, or the extremism itself.
Balance between your love and your fear or you'll be the killer and the victim. That's one premise which will make this film live for so many upcoming generations.