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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... mean the notion of a malevolent force outside of human beings , though capable of possessing them ; by sin , I mean the notion of badness being constitutive of humanity and the world we have made . In the most radical , and heretical ...
... mean the notion of a malevolent force outside of human beings , though capable of possessing them ; by sin , I mean the notion of badness being constitutive of humanity and the world we have made . In the most radical , and heretical ...
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... mean that the corpses , what they have come to find , are near . This is what Mills assumes it means and he suggests they take a look ; Doe leads the way , taking both of them further away from Somerset and the possibility of his ...
... mean that the corpses , what they have come to find , are near . This is what Mills assumes it means and he suggests they take a look ; Doe leads the way , taking both of them further away from Somerset and the possibility of his ...
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... means they knew what was in the box . It may be that the film errs in building up the tension around the box , such that for some viewers guessing what is in it ( and guessing correctly too easily ) eclipses the more significant , and ...
... means they knew what was in the box . It may be that the film errs in building up the tension around the box , such that for some viewers guessing what is in it ( and guessing correctly too easily ) eclipses the more significant , and ...
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