My Sins

A while back, Dave and I watched the movie Se7en starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. It is a good movie, but incredibly graphic and quite gorey. But still a pretty good movie with a couple twists and an interesting plot. This post however, is not a review of the movie.

The Seven Deadly Sins (hereafter called the 7) are also known as the Capital Vices and are 'a classification of the most objectionable vices that has been used since early Christian times to educate and instruct followers concerning immoral fallen humanity's tendencies to sin'.

Every time I hear about the 7 I think about how they relate to me (is that pride?). In other words, which of them am I the most guilty of. So I decided to rank them and give some kind of justification as to the ranking...

1. Gluttony - I think my explanation to this one is pretty self-explanatory. I have a love-affair with food and eat way too much of it.


2. Envy - I am quite a jealous person. I know envy and jealousy are not exactly the same as jealousy normally has to do with materials goods, but whether you call it envious or jealous both can describe me.


3. Sloth - defined as the spiritual or emotional apathy, Sloth can also have to do with waste of talent or ability. It is the second part of this that I feel is relevant to me. I am good at many things, some of which I use on a daily basis but the greatest of which I neglect or overlook completely.


4. Pride - This is considered the original sin - the source from which the others arise. Though I do not feel it as relevant to me as other sins. It is identified as the desire to be more important or desired than others. I often think others are better than me at most things (in terms of appearances or abilities) though I suppose I do desire to be better, though I do not think I want to be the best. Either way, I have ranked it mid way in my list.


5. Greed - Also a sin of excess, greed is mid to low ranked for me as I feel that though I can tend to be a greedy person, I am capable of overcoming this tendency much easier than others.


6. Wrath - This sin has to do with anger (though I am sure few needed this explained to them). I am not a very angry person usually. I can get angry of course, but have become much better at dealing with and portraying this anger to those around me and I therefore have ranked this sin rather low.


7. Lust - I have ranked this rather low as I do not find myself to be a lustful person. I do not rank sex or sexual thoughts/feelings above people or other emotions.

As a sidenote, one of my favourite images depecting the seven deadly sins is below. It is from the show America's Next Top Model and I think it was done really well (though Gluttony looks like she hates that food rather than loves it and eats lots of it).

(image found through Google - originally taken on America's Next Top Model, Cycle Four)

Brittany Murphy

Brittany Murphy died yesterday (December 20, 2009) at age 32 apparently from cardiac arrest. An autopsy is being performed to determine if this was indeed the cause of death.
She starred in a couple classic teen movies such as Clueless, but also more serious dramas like Girl, Interrupted. She also had some face time on the tabloids when she was dating Ashton Kutcher in 2002. Brittany Murphy dabbled in music as well when she sang with Paul Oaklenfold and also in the movie Happy Feet.
She seemed to have a good career going for her, and on the more quiet side of Hollywood to boot. I really hope her death is confirmed to be natural and the tabloids let her rest in peace.

John Hughes

John Hughes, Jr - February 18, 1950 - August 6, 2009

John Hughes made some of the most memorable (and successful) movies of the 1980s and 90s. He was the writer and director of cult classics like National Lampoon's Vacation, Uncle Buck, Sixteen Candles and Home Alone. He understood the American teenager like no other filmmaker in the industry at the time, or arguably ever since.

My personal favourites of his films are Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Uncle Buck, Pretty in Pink and of course, The Breakfast Club. I can remember watching these movies on my VCR and then time and time again whenever they appeared on television - which was quite often. For a full listing of his films visit either Wikipedia or IMDB. He has not made a movie since 1991, but really, when your resume holds classics such as his, do you really need to give into Hollywood's new movie standards?

I really like the following article entitled 8 Things in John Hughes Movies You Won’t See in Today’s Teen Movies. All the points mentioned here are why Hughes' movies are such classics that can no longer be duplicated or remade to be any better than they already are.