Just watched Se7en again for the 1st time in over a decade last night. It is pretty amazing that the director of this fllm, David Fincher also is the director (with same star, Brad Pitt) of Benjamin Button . David Fincher also directed Brad Pitt in Fight Club. Without Brad Pitt Fincher made another tale of urban squeamishness; Zodiac.
Like Fight Club Se7en portrays a bleak, urban landscape, full of rain and water and ersatz, second hand fixtures. Both of these movies are extended Baroque Mise en Scene that take tremendous pains to create a dystopia that is nowhere and everywhere. The cities in both movies are namesless, shapeless and decaying. The people that live in them are corrupt, apathetic and sad.
You can read anywhere about the plot or the acting or the pyschology or theology underlying the story. I am just here to point to Fincher's Neo-Noir Weltanchaung that comes out in the this film and in Fight Club.
Tim Brophy
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