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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... police headquarters re the Pride murder ) When John Doe sends Somerset , Mills and a phalanx of cops to Victor's ... police a note reading ' Stop Me ! Find me and stop me ! I'm going to do it again ' ; Dennis Nilsen is said to have said ...
... police headquarters re the Pride murder ) When John Doe sends Somerset , Mills and a phalanx of cops to Victor's ... police a note reading ' Stop Me ! Find me and stop me ! I'm going to do it again ' ; Dennis Nilsen is said to have said ...
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... police car and it might even be the one going to the scene of the crime to which the film cuts almost immediately . However , as with Somerset's quiet precision , the siren also relates to the wider sense of sound in the film . Just ...
... police car and it might even be the one going to the scene of the crime to which the film cuts almost immediately . However , as with Somerset's quiet precision , the siren also relates to the wider sense of sound in the film . Just ...
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... police siren . Throughout the film , sound reminds us that crime and violence are ever present : police cars , television reports , squabbling and screams , children watching a cavorting cartoon in the apartment through which Mills ...
... police siren . Throughout the film , sound reminds us that crime and violence are ever present : police cars , television reports , squabbling and screams , children watching a cavorting cartoon in the apartment through which Mills ...
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