Why is Mill's wife calling on the 7th day in the movie Se7en? [closed]

The last day in the story of Se7en, shortly before John surrendered, a colleague says to Mills that his wife has called and that he should take a phone secretary. Why is she calling? Is John at their home at this moment and is she asking for help? Could the answer to this call have saved her life?

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Best Answer

Maybe, maybe not. We will never know.

Seeing that John Doe had planned all his crimes, it's possible that she was asking for help while he was there, perhaps Doe weaselled his way into Mill's house and she got suspicious and just called to confirm with him, or perhaps it's none of these and she called for a different reason.

Even if he answered, we don't know what Doe had planned, maybe she would be already dead by the time the cops got there, had he planned this way. Maybe the movie ended as it did because Mills didn't answer the call, so Doe adapted his plan a bit.

There's nothing else in the movie to help figuring this one out.

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What was the sin of mills wife?

Doe claims to represent the sin of "Envy" when he killed Mills wife; he was envious of Mills' normal life, and killed Tracy after failing to "play husband" with her. After that Mills kills Doe by shooting him repeatedly, becoming the embodiment of "Wrath".

What was the 7th sin in the movie Seven?

Se7en's finale sees the sins of wrath and envy ultimately committed by Mills and Doe. Doe explains to Mills that he tried to live out his normal life of being happily married and in love with a beautiful woman. But he failed, and thus committed the crime of "envy" by decapitating Tracy.

Was mills wife head in the box?

Se7en ends with a devastating big reveal, as it turns out Doe has decapitated Mills' pregnant wife and her severed head is what's in the box. With Mills distraught and overcome with grief, Doe taunts him further, revealing that Tracy was pregnant.

What was the point of Se7en?

As screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker later explained, Se7en isn't really about cops catching a killer. It's about the forces of optimism, represented by Detective Mills, being in constant conflict with pessimism, as seen in Detective Somerset.

John Stuart Mill - On Liberty | Political Philosophy

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