Which Is Your Favorite Monologue Of The Antagonist/Villian In Film?

For me, it would have to definitely be John Doe's monologue in the car in "Se7en": https://youtu.be/MUIpgiPBk5kWe learn everything that we need to know about John Doe as a character. We also do learn about his motivations about killing people because of their apathy of the immorality happening everyday in the city and also their own sins. We have also have great acting that brilliantly characterizes the characters they're playing along with some pretty nice dialogue.The fact that John Doe considers himself not to be special but still finds a lot of value on what he believes and what he does for himself really reminds of me in a way. Not saying I agree with his actions or anything like that but I am someone who doesn't consider himself to be special and I am aware of it but I still find a lot of value on the things I love and on my beliefs. When somebody confronts that and goes against it, that really affects me and I try to come up with an argument to debunk that person. I find more importance on that thing more than myself. Which is exactly what I got from John Doe mentioning he doesn't think he is special but what matters is the work that he is doing. When Mills attacks his view, he goes into the defensive, underestimates the intelligence of the person and try to delegitimize what he says to make his claim more valid. He truly wants to believe his own work really haves as much value as he claims and he goes to such lenghts to try to prove it with wrongful actions. I found this trait to be very human of him and something I have recognized in not just me but others. We can also see he is someone who internally might not be believe on everything that he says and that he'll not admit it, deny it and make another argument to try to prove himself right. This is what I got when Somerset says how he is not really doing it for God as he is doing it for his own personal pleasure rather than what he claims to believe in. He is that part of us on which we believe that causing pain on criminals/bad people is justice when it is just a way of making ourselves feel better. We hide those deeper pleasures inside us with the idea that this is the "right thing to do". You can see John Doe stays silent as if he was rethinking what he did and was having some existential conflict but tries his best to not show it but later, he tries to argue against the argument made against him despite him not being fully honest about it. John Doe kinda reminds me of Mills in a way but in a more subtle and opposite way. Mills is someone who is closed minded and wants to attach on to his beliefs. He will deny and fight against the argument that goes against his own beliefs. He believes he can make a sort of difference in the world with his actions. But ironically at the same time, he is just like Somerset, who is the total opposite of Mills. They both believe humanity is too corrupted and ignore the crimes occuring regularly. But unlike Mills and John Doe, he is more open minded and doesn't take much action. It's like if John Doe was a mix of Somerset and Mills' most toxic aspects and the wrong way of concluding things.A lot of people say he is right. While his idea of immorality is valid in a way, I think they missed the point that John Doe is deluded in his actions. He is an elitist and a hyprocrite. Murdering some people won't change anything and he just given up his life in the end of the movie believing that his plan has been completed. Sure, he succeeded on breaking Mills but that will not affect the world as he is expecting to. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2YbnqcS