Se7en

Hello Cine TV Community! We’re back with yet another classical film for you all. As you know, this is in honour of our new and amazing token, GIFU. So, in light of this, we’ll be bringing you classical films that are not just iconic and successful in their own right but have also produced popular and iconic GIFs. Today’s film of choice is a classical masterpiece that was deemed disturbing upon its release but has grown to be less criticized in recent years.

Se7en (1995)

Lieutenant William Somerset(Morgan Freeman) is one week away from his retirement from the police force. Then he gets assigned to a case with David Mills(Brad Pitt), a young, temperamental, detective who just relocated to the city with his wife, Tracy(Gwyneth Paltrow). The two men investigate a particularly gruesome murder, in which a fat man was tied hands and feet and forced to eat himself to death. Gluttony is written on the wall beside the corpse. Somerset considers the case too extreme for a last investigation but attempts to be reassigned to another case prove futile.

The next day, another corpse is found of a man forced to cut off a pound from his body. Beside is Greed inscribed. Soon enough, Somerset on a stroke of intuition discovers that the killer is imitating the seven deadly sins. Catching the killer becomes a thrill and they believe they have gotten him quite figured out. Unknown to them, however, the killer has one last trick up his sleeve. One that may tip the scales to be the cruellest sin of them all.

Talking about this involved me reliving the entire experience this film gave. I remember being chased out of the living room the first time I watched this film with my parents and the little scenes were too gruesome for my young mind to comprehend then. Watching it a lot later, and I was still taken aback by the level of violence and gore, but it seemed easier to truly follow what was happening, and in a way, it made sense the sermon the killer was trying to preach, even though said sermon was executed in extreme ways.

This is a very dark film, figuratively as well as literally, because most of the scenes are gloomy with only the flashlights from the detectives casting hopeless pools of light in all the gloom surrounding the film. I noticed that this was done to achieve the particular effect that the entire film had which was showcasing a depraved degree of crime and violence.

In a way, I may agree that there could have been less gruesome ways to convey the message that was supposed to be passed. But I loved the way the seven deadly sins were brought to light. From gluttony to greed, sloth to pride and then to lust and so on. The fact that the killer was only revealed 30 minutes to the end of the film was a master stroke and then he was given a voice that painted him as a most devious antagonist. And his master plan of executing his last sermon left me breathless.

Though the ending was not the most satisfactory, I enjoyed Seven as a whole, and if you can look past all the gloom and gruesomeness to the masterpiece it is, it may prove quite enjoyable for you. It also helps that it has very popular GIFs as its trademark. So, there you have it. Hope you enjoy!

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