David Fincher He demonstrated with his filmography that he is a master of the Thriller genre. Movies like The game (1997), Fight Club (1999), Zodiac (2007) and Gone Girl (2014) realize this, but in the early nineties history was another.
Before 1995 Fincher’s scrolls were minimal: some television works, advertisements and a somewhat failed debut directing ALIEN 3 In 1992. This situation caused his next project to be key to his future in the industry, and no doubt that it was. Seven (or se7en) I change everything.
The film released on September 22, 1995 in Cinemas He gave a nut to the Thrillers Policehe horrified and fascinated spectators and critics equally. A story that explored human depravation and concluded with such shocking end that still today impacts.
What is Seven
The film follows two detectives, the veteran (already point of retreat) Somerset (Morgan Freeman) and the young Mills (Brad Pitt) Who just moved to the city with his wife Tracy (Gwyneth Paltrow). Somerset and Mills must work together in the search to solve a series of murders whose methodology is based on each of the seven capital sins.
One of Fincher’s merits lies in having sustained the original idea of the film (despite the pressure of the New Line Cinema studio), an idea that arose from the writer’s mind Andrew Kevin Walker. Walker wrote the script that would become Seven in 1991, at that time he was an aspiring screenwriter used from a New York record store. In addition to a deep depression with a job that he hated and seeing meager opportunities to enter the industry of his profession, the Seven script reflects the great darkness and cynicism experienced by its creator at the time.
“The idea of murders based on capital sins was a reaction of living in New York and insert me into John Doe’s head, I could walk the streets and see every capital sin in all the corners of the city. What would happen if someone too sensitive saw these injustices? ”Walker revealed in an interview with Uproxx.
Seven, the city and sin as protagonists
Not only from its history, but also through its staging, Seven embraces the idea that life is bleak and meaningless. The city has no name, it is covered by a gray sky and a constant flood and there are no mentions of dates. That lack of temporary specificity and a name that identifies the place is complemented by problems, explicit violence and a couple of exhausted detectives. An environment impregnated with hopelessness and miseryin the words of Detective Somerset himself: “I don’t think I can continue to live in a place that embraces and nourishes apathy as if it were a virtue.”
Seven is undoubtedly a reference film within the genre. Its relevance to marked the races of those who were part of it, Fincher managed to make a name within the industry, Walker continued writing scripts, and its protagonists continued with a more than respectable filmography.
Seven is available to see in HBO Max.
Source: Ambito
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