“スクールカーストの頂点に君臨し、“七つの大罪”を体現する７人の女子高校生たち。だが、彼女たちはひとり、またひとりと残酷な死を遂げていき……。衝撃のサスペンス。”
強欲、嫉妬、怠惰、暴食、憤怒、傲慢、色欲。厳格なクリスチャン高校に通いながら、すべての罪の根源とされる“七つの大罪”をそれぞれになぞらえた7人組の女子グループに、奇怪な事件が襲いかかる。学園に君臨する一方、いじめや嫉妬、同性愛など愛憎渦巻くグループの裏側や、警察より教会が力を持つ地方の町の実情が見どころ。また、スティーヴン・キング原作の配信オリジナル映画「1922」で存在感を示したK・バーナードが主人公の少女役を演じたほか、今後の活躍が期待される若手女優たちの共演にも注目だ。
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If Seven and The Craft conceived a child and then aborted it, it would be The Sinners. Here is a movie wherein seven high school girls form a group in which each member must embody one of the seven deadly sins, but then they sin by omission instead of by commission. For example, the girl who represents sloth “has been offered full athletic scholarships to eight [NCAA] Division I universities.” How exactly can this be? I mean, lazy people do no get full rides, athletic or otherwise. Or is the movie suggesting that ‘working out’ is not really ‘working’? Similarly, the one who has chosen to assume the sin of gluttony must be bulimic as well, because she has no visible weight issues. And then there’s the one who admits not knowing why her sin, pride, is even a sin in the first place. This is the same girl who claims to own two Bibles (“one for [catholic] school, one for home”), which enables her to know the answer to every question ever asked in class – which in turn I assume is the source of her pride, not that there would be anything really sinful in that. Now, if she – or, for that matter, co-writer/director Courtney Paige – had read either of those Bibles, she would know that “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall” (Proverbs, 16:18), and that “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble” (James 4:6). I guess Paige is really the only one here who has been slothful.
