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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... tells Tracy of , when he heard his partner was pregnant – ' How can I bring a child into a world like this ? ' , a world , presumably , this shitty . Later still , in a bar after the ' Lust ' murder , he tells Mills , ' I just don't ...
... tells Tracy of , when he heard his partner was pregnant – ' How can I bring a child into a world like this ? ' , a world , presumably , this shitty . Later still , in a bar after the ' Lust ' murder , he tells Mills , ' I just don't ...
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... telling Somerset that the first time he went out to arrest a suspect , he killed someone unnecessarily ; in other ... tells him it's 7.01 and he replies , ' It's close . ' This has at least three implications . It reminds us that we ...
... telling Somerset that the first time he went out to arrest a suspect , he killed someone unnecessarily ; in other ... tells him it's 7.01 and he replies , ' It's close . ' This has at least three implications . It reminds us that we ...
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... tells Mills ( who , no doubt genuinely , mouths the rhetoric of ' I thought I could do some good ' within minutes of their meeting ) that he sees their job as ' picking up the pieces in case we get lucky ' . And he smashes the metronome ...
... tells Mills ( who , no doubt genuinely , mouths the rhetoric of ' I thought I could do some good ' within minutes of their meeting ) that he sees their job as ' picking up the pieces in case we get lucky ' . And he smashes the metronome ...
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