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OK, I wasn't going to do this but sorry, can't resist...
There is gaping hole in plot logic at the ending. The finale rushes by so quickly that this doesn't stand out but within five minutes of finishing I went "Hey, wait a minute..."
The serial killer John Doe (Spacey) has just raped, killed and decapitated Mill's wife (Paltrow), then walks into the police station literally covered in fresh, dripping blood.
In the final scene in the desert, Paltrow's head is delivered in a box by an unsuspecting courier.
How did Doe arrange this?
Imagine the scene...a demented killer, slathered in gore, walks into a delivery service carrying a box- which is inexplicably pristine by the way- and asks for it to be delivered to the middle of nowhere at a very specific time. He pays $500 and ambles out.
No one thinks this odd.
That's one tough city.
Also,
Let's talk about the mastermind serial killer genre a bit, shall we?
Yeah, I get it- they're nuts and totally focused but shit, give me a break, do they have time machines too?
When Pitt and Freeman find John Doe's lair- and don't they all have such elaborate hidey holes too?- one of the things they find is two thousand- 2000!- handmade, incredibly dense notebooks...the killer's mind made readable.
In the DVD extras there is a whole clip devoted to producing just the few pages that are shown onscreen.
It took two guys months to make just these props and yet the "killer" supposedly spews out 2000 of 'em.
At the same time he's also masterminding incredibly elaborate death scenarios- one of which takes a year to complete.
Yet, when caught, John Doe appears well fed and rested...pretty normal actually.
His productivity and dedication make me feel like a total slacker.
Makes me wish I was just a little batshit crazy so I could get more done.
Originally Posted by Rustican
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