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...goals was to] make any Harvard students who are interested in working for Shell think twice about working for a company whose hands are so bloody in so many ways," said Noah R. Freeman '98, a member of the Nigeria Action Committee. He added that he also hoped to register his complaints with the company, through its recruiters, and with Harvard, as a Shell investor...
...Freeman is also co-author of the Undergraduate Council's resolution protesting Harvard's investment in Shell and Shell's involvement with the execution of Saro-Wiwa...
Anyone who has seen the movie Seven will probably agree that it was excellent. The acting was intense, the plot was captivating and the skillful directing greatly heightened the dramatic impact of the movie. Watching Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman play off each other while portraying hard-nosed detectives was thoroughly enjoyable. And yet if I had known more about Seven before actually watching it last week in the Science Center, I would never have gone. After seeing it, I have come to regret that it was ever made...
Seven is not only inherently inhumane, but it smacks of being inhuman as well. The gruesome murders which Pitt and Freeman must solve are so cruel and visceral that I find myself amazed that anyone could conceive of them, let alone decide they were appropriate fare for a major motion picture. The final scene of the movie is a glorious tribute to nihilism in which Brad Pitt's world is torn apart by a senseless crime that leaves the viewer convinced that life is meaningless, that pain will always triumph over happiness and that it's kinder to abort...
There is one tiny redeeming moment at the film's end. Morgan Freeman mentions that the world is worth fighting for, but this line seems an incongruous afterthought and does little to dilute the overwhelming sense of spiritual darkness one takes away from Seven...