This document provides analysis of the thriller film Se7en. It summarizes that the film follows detectives Mills and Somerset as they hunt a serial killer whose murders are based on the seven deadly sins. The film keeps audiences on the edge of their seat with shocking violence and unexpected twists. While disturbing, it differs from a horror in that it does not rely on scaring the audience or depicting graphic worms.
1. Se7en analysis
Director: David Fincher
Detective Mills: Brad Pitt
Detective Somerset: Morgan Freeman
Killer: Kevin Spacey
2. Seven genre is a thriller
jumpy
Edge of your
seat shocking
thriller
Unexpect Eye
ed
opening
violence
Thriller is a film that keeps the audience cliff hanging at the
edge of their seat. Thriller is something that I shocking . We
know it a horror films because it don’t scare and reveals
horrible and worm things.
3. In this mid shot we see
Somerset's curtains are closed,
blocking him out from the rest
of the world which raises the
question… why are they closed?
This shot also has diegetic
sound od the busy street
and the water running from
his tap.
The chessboard is blurred out
in the four ground making
Somerset the main focus in
this shot.
4. This is a close up shot of Detective
Somerset who is played by Morgan
Freeman.
Somerset’s equipment is all
placed down on a table. This
shows us that Somerset is a
detective; this also suggests how
organised he is.
Diegetic sounds of
detective Somerset taking
hold of his equipment.
5. The audience can tell that
this is a thriller film and
not a horror because we
do not see any worms and
are not tolled about how
violent it was.
Tilting shot reveals the
body to the audience
Somerset’s voice is the
same when entering the
crime scene . This lets the
audience know that
Somerset has been a
detective for a long time
6. This is a mid shot of detective
Mills, played by Brad Pitt
entering in the crime scene.
The style if his clothing
suggests to the audience that
detective Mills is a cookey and
confident guy.
Detective Mills is chewing
gum whilst speaking.
7. The camera is tracking
Detective Somerset
this shows the
audience who is in
charge.
During the scene it is
raining, Pathetic Fallacy is
used to give the sense of
continuity as the atmosphere
between detective Mills and
Somerset is awkward.
There is diegetic noise
of a busy city and bad
weather. Its raining
8. This shot stops at a low
angle because Somerset
is offended at Mills This is a low angled
assumption. shot of detective
Mills and Somerset
having a
conversation.
There is diegetic noise
of a busy city and bad
weather. Its raining
This shot shows boarded up
shops, bars on windows in
this shot but also the
audience does not see a lot
of the city.
9. Bags attached to the board suggests evidence to the crime=
Behind the chalk board we
can see images of
victims/past crime scenes
which the police have
been involved in.
The close up of the chalk board
shows the seven deadly sins.
The seven deadly sins are what
the killer follows as he kills his
victims, from the scene we can
see the killer has killer three
victims already and has five
more planned