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The movie Seven is a 1995 mystery, psychological thriller film directed by David Fincher. The film tells a story of a young detective, who pairs with a lead detective regrading occurrences of murders. The detectives quickly comprehend; they have a serial kill on their hands. The perpetrator targets individuals, who he judges to represent the seven deadly sins. Shortly, the detectives identify a man, who has checked out numerous books on the deadly sins. Following a brief encounter with the serial killer; the character appears in the police station covered in blood, where he is apprehended. While being custody, the serial killer maintains to justify, and believes the killings were gods demands. Nevertheless, the reason I choose this film is …show more content…
There is reasonable agreement among researchers that there are five basic personality traits that are categorized as normal. The five factor model consists of neuroticism, extraversion, introversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. ( Mineka, page 328). Our adult personality is attuned to social expectations. However, an individual with a personality disorder has traits that enable them to adequately comply with social expectations. The serial killer would be classified as someone with antisocial personality disorder. The DSM-5 personality disorders are grouped into three clusters, A, B, C. As for ASPD would be a cluster B, due to the tendency of them being dramatic, emotional, and erratic (Mineka, page 329). Individuals diagnosed with ASPD, continue to violate and show disregard to the rights of others though aggressiveness, deceitful, or lack of remorse, failure to plan a head, reckless, irresponsible, which falls under DSM-IV TR requirements for ASPD diagnoses. However, the pattern of behavior must have been occurring since the age of fithteen. Yet, one to be diagnosed before the age of fithteen, one needs to have had present symptoms of conduct disorder. (Mineka, page 328). Nonetheless, it appears to be psychosis disorder present as

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