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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... give chase and Mills ends up with Doe's gun pressed against his head , but Doe lets him go . Somerset and Mills ... gives himself up . He says that he will not plead insanity if Somerset and Mills , and only they , will go with him ...
... give chase and Mills ends up with Doe's gun pressed against his head , but Doe lets him go . Somerset and Mills ... gives himself up . He says that he will not plead insanity if Somerset and Mills , and only they , will go with him ...
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... gives himself up . It is devastating , since logic dictates this should be the end of the film and what could be more disappointing than that , with two murders still to go ? David Fincher recalls reading the original script : The icing ...
... gives himself up . It is devastating , since logic dictates this should be the end of the film and what could be more disappointing than that , with two murders still to go ? David Fincher recalls reading the original script : The icing ...
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... gives it transcendent , cosmic significance , that gives it point . The relief of literal salvation is almost wholly absent . The Bible , notably the Gospels with their emphasis on the possibilities of virtue and redemption , is never ...
... gives it transcendent , cosmic significance , that gives it point . The relief of literal salvation is almost wholly absent . The Bible , notably the Gospels with their emphasis on the possibilities of virtue and redemption , is never ...
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