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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Page 11
... Doe's scrawling of the words ' Gluttony ' and ' Greed ' at the murder scenes . Familiar with the same cultural reference points as Doe , he is able to use the public library system to trace Doe to his address . It is not just that he is ...
... Doe's scrawling of the words ' Gluttony ' and ' Greed ' at the murder scenes . Familiar with the same cultural reference points as Doe , he is able to use the public library system to trace Doe to his address . It is not just that he is ...
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... Doe's head and chooses to kill , even though Doe poses no physical threat to him ; Doe here goads the cop into becoming the killer where before Doe the killer acted the cop . A different kind of play occurs near the end of the film ...
... Doe's head and chooses to kill , even though Doe poses no physical threat to him ; Doe here goads the cop into becoming the killer where before Doe the killer acted the cop . A different kind of play occurs near the end of the film ...
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... Doe belongs . In other words , while he is no Victor or Gein , he is representative of certain aspects of serial ... does not account for its success . The serial killer is also meaningful . Judith Walkowitz17 notes that the Jack the ...
... Doe belongs . In other words , while he is no Victor or Gein , he is representative of certain aspects of serial ... does not account for its success . The serial killer is also meaningful . Judith Walkowitz17 notes that the Jack the ...
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