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Seven Movie Analysis

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 carryin...

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