Se7en (1995)
Figures
Locations
- The unnamed, perpetually rain-soaked city
Form & technique
- Howard Shore's musical score and the film's sound design
- The opening title sequence
- The final "box" scene and its resolution
- The 'Sloth' victim crime scene
Tropes
- John Doe's self-surrender and final sermon
- The evolving partnership between Detectives Somerset and Mills
- The film's claustrophobic cinematography
- Tracy Mills's character arc and death → Symbolic Annihilation
- John Doe's library and handwritten journals
- Detective Somerset's worldview and cynicism
- The juxtaposition of John Doe's literary references with the visceral horror of his crimes
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