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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... performance artists ... the sort of guy that pisses in a cap on stage , then drinks it - performance art ' ) . The chain of murders itself is a work that must , he says in the final car journey , be seen as a whole to be appreciated ...
... performance artists ... the sort of guy that pisses in a cap on stage , then drinks it - performance art ' ) . The chain of murders itself is a work that must , he says in the final car journey , be seen as a whole to be appreciated ...
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... performance artist idea.43 The dark in Western culture is oppressive , dangerous and a sign of wickedness . The rigour and remorselessness of Seven's darkness serve M SU SUF Bra Son car of t hna spac muc it , th blin f 3 not only to ...
... performance artist idea.43 The dark in Western culture is oppressive , dangerous and a sign of wickedness . The rigour and remorselessness of Seven's darkness serve M SU SUF Bra Son car of t hna spac muc it , th blin f 3 not only to ...
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... performance enact ways of being in the world . These , of Freeman as Somerset , are passive , not exerting pressure on self or the world , not implicated or involved . Somerset can be separated from Mills and Doe , from sin , only at ...
... performance enact ways of being in the world . These , of Freeman as Somerset , are passive , not exerting pressure on self or the world , not implicated or involved . Somerset can be separated from Mills and Doe , from sin , only at ...
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