Monday, 11 November 2013

Film summary- Seven- Thriller

Seven is a conventional thriller film made in 1995, written by Andrew Kevin Walker and directed by David Ficher. The film stars Brad Pitt (Mills) and Morgan Freeman (Sommerset) as two intelligent and keen homicide detectives. Their main objective was to hunt down a vindictive serial killer (John Doe) who seeks revenge on the world due to the ignorance of human beings. His main victims where people who he found guilty of committing the seven deadly sins which are Pride, Envy,  Gluttony , Lust , Anger, Sloth. Mills is a short tempered detective who recently transferred to a new department and a new city with his beloved wife Gwyneth Paltrow (Tracy), his wife doesn't seem to be delighted with the idea of moving to a new city. The film gives us an insight of the work life of the two characters as well as their personal life which helps us the viewer’s empathize with them and also helps us see things from their point of view. John Doe the serial killer is absent from most of the first half of the film however we the viewers are fed with images of his victims thus giving us a sense of brutality. In the film Morgan Freeman (Somerset) plays a more mature detective who was on the verge of going into retirement but lured back to solve one last case.

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