Weird Work/Se7en Story/Critique of American Culture

leeho

OK, as most of you know, I'm an ESL teacher at LAGCC. Anyway, we have been studying "mysteries" for this short winter semester. I showed 7 and we analyzed it for clues and then I gave my class the tough assignment to role play as Det. Mills after the box and the pregnancy issue is opened. 27/30 wouldn't kill John Doe.

That was profound to me. What would you do?

If it were me, as I told my class, I'd smoke him. I wouldn't care who won.

It is the opposite feeling I have about capital punishment, though.

Tough decision, for me, but still can't believe how few would've killed him.

What would you do?

doctorj

Maybe for those of us who aren't up to speed, you could point us at a synopsis of the scenario?

leeho

Ok, so this serial killer provokes 2 cops to drive out to the middle of nowhere and a package arrives. The package is the head of a preganant wife of Detective Mills. He doesn't even know she is pregnant until the killer says it. He's a cop, has a gun and is pointing it at the guy.........

That was the prompt after 120 minutes of film with a really creepy guy doing some serious murder shit.

My students had to be Mills and decide what to do at that point.

idlewild

You shoot the fuck.

drano

I'd split the difference and inflict a crippling injury.

quijibo

shoot him in the legs

shishkab

one of my favorite movies. amazing, painful, angst-ridden scene.

if i went thru what det. mills went thru, and afterwards lost the most precious item of my world at the hands of a psychopath who probably tortured her before he killed her, i'd have shot john doe dead. vengeance and wrath, man. vengeance and wrath.

OT, LeeHo, i worked at LAGCC for 3 years. small world gettin' smaller every day.