Se7en

SE7EN MOVIE ANALYSIS

Character Analysis:

• Detective Mills- new to the job, young, eager,detached from work,
• Detective Somerset- wise, experienced, trustworthy, reserved.
• Tracy Mills- kindhearted, hates the city,innocent
• John Doe-confident,only seen in handcuffs, all power taken away. Never seen doing the murders.

SETTING:

• "The City"
• Always raining
• Sun only shines once, moment of enlightenment
• Tops of buildings never seen, feeling of being trapped

Literary Allusions

• Pound of Flesh= "Merchant of Venice"
• "Long is the way, and hard, that out of hell leads up to light... " Paradise Lost.
• "Ernest Hemingway once wrote, 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part."

Theme

Shapes and Colors

• Fincher uses unsaturated colors and sharp edges to add to the tone of impending doom and to reflect the attitude of the characters.

While there are many possible themes present in the film the most prevalent was the theme of excess and how excess is a sin that everyone commits and is the root of every deadly sin.

Tone

The tone of the film is that of impending doom. Everything from the dreary city to the Paradise Lost quote about a hard road ahead adds to this tone.