SevenBritish Film Institute, 1999 - 88 pages Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Lust, Pride, Envy, Wrath. A serial killer on a warped mission who turns his victims' "sins" into the means of their murder. "Seven" (1995) is one of the most acclaimed American films of the 1990s. Starring Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, and Kevin Spacey, "Seven" is the darkest of films. In it performance, cinematography, sound, and plot combine to create a harrowing account of a world beset by an all-encompassing, irremediable wickedness. Richard Dyer explores in turn the questions of sin, story, structure, seriality, sound, sight and salvation, analyzing how "Seven" both epitomizes and modifies the serial killer genre that is such a feature of recent cinema. |
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... ( Detective Somerset on learning of the first murder ) Seven is a study in sin . It is also a crime movie and a film of great formal rigour . The notion of sin connects these generic and stylistic qualities . Crime fiction deals by ...
... ( Detective Somerset on learning of the first murder ) Seven is a study in sin . It is also a crime movie and a film of great formal rigour . The notion of sin connects these generic and stylistic qualities . Crime fiction deals by ...
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... Detective Somerset , the wider perception of human frailty evoked by the notion of sin . Somerset is the site of wisdom in the film . This is so in two senses . First , he is the character in this detective story who is best at ...
... Detective Somerset , the wider perception of human frailty evoked by the notion of sin . Somerset is the site of wisdom in the film . This is so in two senses . First , he is the character in this detective story who is best at ...
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... detective due to retire in seven days , William Somerset , and a newly arrived younger detective , David Mills , are assigned to the case . Their DAY SIN VICTIM Monday Tuesday Greed Gluttony ' the Fat Boy ' Eli Gould ( a defence ...
... detective due to retire in seven days , William Somerset , and a newly arrived younger detective , David Mills , are assigned to the case . Their DAY SIN VICTIM Monday Tuesday Greed Gluttony ' the Fat Boy ' Eli Gould ( a defence ...
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