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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... final car journey , be seen as a whole to be appreciated , ' his masterpiece ' as Somerset observes . All of this , and with it the ability to manipulate and outmanoeuvre the police at every stage , makes him comparable to Hannibal ...
... final car journey , be seen as a whole to be appreciated , ' his masterpiece ' as Somerset observes . All of this , and with it the ability to manipulate and outmanoeuvre the police at every stage , makes him comparable to Hannibal ...
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... final tableau of Somerset and Mills standing over the body with the word ' Pride ' between them ) . Khondji sees these variations in relation to Doe's stage management of the scenes , which suggests the serial killer as performance ...
... final tableau of Somerset and Mills standing over the body with the word ' Pride ' between them ) . Khondji sees these variations in relation to Doe's stage management of the scenes , which suggests the serial killer as performance ...
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... final ' Hearts Filthy Lesson ' tracks with me . 4 Rape and paedophilia are sins of lust , but it is not for them that Doe kills , respectively , Eli Gould ( Greed ) and Victor ( Sloth ) . 5 Following the film's own practice , I refer to ...
... final ' Hearts Filthy Lesson ' tracks with me . 4 Rape and paedophilia are sins of lust , but it is not for them that Doe kills , respectively , Eli Gould ( Greed ) and Victor ( Sloth ) . 5 Following the film's own practice , I refer to ...
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