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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... later the significance of locating wisdom in the black character . Here I focus on the character of Mills . It is sometimes forgotten that the eponymous ' lethal weapon ' of at least the first of the Glover - Gibson films is the Gibson ...
... later the significance of locating wisdom in the black character . Here I focus on the character of Mills . It is sometimes forgotten that the eponymous ' lethal weapon ' of at least the first of the Glover - Gibson films is the Gibson ...
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... later overlaid with a faster , blurred , more metallic beat in a higher register ; the piece organised as a fugue brought to a close with a single , sung phrase and a loud , very reverberative single deep drum beat ; the whole recorded ...
... later overlaid with a faster , blurred , more metallic beat in a higher register ; the piece organised as a fugue brought to a close with a single , sung phrase and a loud , very reverberative single deep drum beat ; the whole recorded ...
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... later in the film , drinking together in a bar after the ' Lust ' murder , Mills says good - bye , saying ' Thank you , Bill , ' signalling the closeness they have reached . 6 Mark Salisbury , ' Seventh Hell ' , Empire vol . 80 ...
... later in the film , drinking together in a bar after the ' Lust ' murder , Mills says good - bye , saying ' Thank you , Bill , ' signalling the closeness they have reached . 6 Mark Salisbury , ' Seventh Hell ' , Empire vol . 80 ...
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