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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... sin is achieved in Seven by the single - mindedness of the film's formal - structural , aural , visual - choices . Seven asks to be seen in terms of sin . The title need not of itself indicate this . The seven deadly sins are only one ...
... sin is achieved in Seven by the single - mindedness of the film's formal - structural , aural , visual - choices . Seven asks to be seen in terms of sin . The title need not of itself indicate this . The seven deadly sins are only one ...
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... sin . Religion is a strong presence in the film - in Doe's seven deadly sins conceit , the library sequence and other references discussed below . It might offer two forms of relief : the promise of actual salvation , or , failing that ...
... sin . Religion is a strong presence in the film - in Doe's seven deadly sins conceit , the library sequence and other references discussed below . It might offer two forms of relief : the promise of actual salvation , or , failing that ...
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... sin : St Thomas Aquinas ( Somerset : ' He wrote about the seven deadly sins ' ) , the Divine Comedy's Purgatory not Paradise , Milton's Paradise Lost not Regained , the Parson's tale , a sermon on sin , rather than the more genial ...
... sin : St Thomas Aquinas ( Somerset : ' He wrote about the seven deadly sins ' ) , the Divine Comedy's Purgatory not Paradise , Milton's Paradise Lost not Regained , the Parson's tale , a sermon on sin , rather than the more genial ...
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