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Seven Movie Analysis
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FILM Chosen: Se7en (1995) Director: David Fincher Screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker One of the most revered movies of the 1990s as well as being one of my favorite movies, Se7en, brilliantly captures the depravity and horror of the human psyche. Fincher sets the mode of this movie from the get go as being a quote on quote a “dark somber movie” by basically filming the movie in the dark. The cinematographer Darius Khondhji does a fantastic job by creating this very somber movie by over exaggerating the blacks and taking out any bright colors by using this silver retention chemical process. Throughout this movie, the audience is at the edge of their seats as Detectives Mills and Somerset are on a quest to find a deranged serial killer only known as “John Doe”. A very nail biting scene that is a very effective suspenseful thrill ride is the raid on John Doe’s apartment. The scene opens up with a whipping camera view downwards to the fleet of vehicles carrying the SWAT TEAM. The tone is set with the heavy onslaught of rain and the very dark huish colors of black and brown. The only bright colors in the scene come from the siren lights on top of the vehicles. The rain seems to so heavy pouring that it may even seem a bit painful as it floods the empty dinged urban city. Then the SWAT Team break out and run into the building; the sheer heavy number of SWAT Team members only add to the notion that something big is about to happen. This is when composer Howard Shore’s music kicks in and creates a more chaotic feeling as the swat members run up the stairs of the old dirty apartment with their shotgun which has a flashlight at the tip of it.
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