n’t seen the whole picture yet.
When I’m done,
when it’s done,
it will be... an event that is
difficult to fully understand
but cannot be denied--
John Doe
plot Summary:
Inspector Somerset’s early morning
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still dark, the horns of police cars have been heard from the distance of the city, and the TV next door is noisy The sound also passed through the wall and entered into Somerset's living room. It was just a little noise, which was tolerable. William Somerset has already gotten up. He likes the feeling of getting up early. At this time, the air has not been polluted by car exhaust, and the tranquility has not been overwhelmed by the hustle and bustle of the city. This is the only lovely time in the city, but it is not long, he I haven't slept well this time, maybe I haven't slept well in the thirty years since I came to this city. But these few days are special, because he will retire from the police station in seven days, and he won't have to endure these bird things in seven days. After all this is over, he will leave this city-this horrible place. Somerset thought, while pouring the unfinished coffee into the sink. Today, a police detective will be transferred from other places to take his place, a new, young detective. Young~~ He
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What was the mood of the young self when he first arrived in this city? He shook the dust of his memory, and then came back to his senses. It was too long, he could not remember it, he seemed to grow old as soon as he came to this city He has never been young, let alone this city... Hey~~ He sighed, this city can grind any youthful enthusiasm for nothing. Enthusiasm and naivety is dangerous in this city, he must remember to remind the young man of this. , But there are only seven days left, so there won't be any mistakes!! The noise outside the window gradually expands, and the only moment of silence in Somerset is quickly disappearing. He put on the police badge, put on the pistol, picked up the switchblade that had been used for more than 30 years, and twisted the doorknob of the door. He knew what was waiting for him outside the door~~~ As usual...
Noir movies like to take time Compressed within a certain period of time, some are within a day and overnight, this film is seven days.
Senior detective William Somerset will retire from the police station in seven days, while detective David Mills transferred from other cities is gearing up, hoping to show off in this city. At this time, a series of murders occurred in the city. The murderer was based on the seven deadly sins stipulated by the Catholic Church: "gluttony", "greed", "laziness", "jealous", "pride", and "anger." To select the victim, because the murderer committed the crime carefully and was very patient, he was stuck in a stalemate in handling the case and unable to find out the clue. At this time, Somerset used a private illegal channel to find out the possible suspect, and found the real culprit by mistake. However, he was arresting In the process, the murderer was still allowed to escape, but this encounter caused the murderer to change his criminal plan, and the seven deadly crimes that shocked the world had to put together the last two horrible puzzles.
Research and analysis of the role function of film noir in Se7en1
. Somerset and Mills Black Detective and Victim/Criminal White Male
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Picture Commentary: Two distinctly different personalities and a far-reaching conception of a detective partner who encounters tricky murders. This seems to be a favorite formula combination in Hollywood genre movies However, such a combination in Se7en is more than just dramatic effects, he wants to say much more than that.
Somerset and Mills, one old and one young, one black, one white, one relaxing, are themselves very dramatic partners, and the play also deliberately arranged for the two to have conflicts and disagreements from the beginning. This kind of character design is actually not uncommon in Hollywood, and it can even be said to be a customary match~~ Such as Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in Lethals Weapon, or Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker in Rush Hour. The combination of these is to present a dramatic effect of a cultural gap-regardless of whether the gap comes from race or age. However, the combination in Se7en is not so pure and only dramatic~~ It contains more references. Although Somerset is old but is a smart elder who understands modern cities, while Mills is young, but its perception of the world. But it seems to be the spirit of the previous generation, and Somerset’s pessimistic retreat, Mills’ masculine entry into the world has its function of being closely integrated with the story, and has exerted a huge effect afterwards, and their personality and image shaping also point to the black. Typical important roles in movies.
First of all, Somerset, who is retiring to this indifferent city, is the black detective in the film noir.
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, windbreaker, and switchblade.
Somerset is
alive and
well. Did the detective Se7en_000 who came out of the world in 50 years witnessed it?
What? Kid?? Why are you asking these ghost questions? You are about to retire. I promise to be very happy.
The alienation of the tough guy detective who always asks such questions is not to show wisdom or education, but to represent his total rejection of society, and he cannot accept or even understand the value and attitude. He claims to be an existentialist, improving his personal and practical conventions based on traditional and outdated values, such as tenacious individualism and honest behavior. If a classical Western character traveled through time and space in a rumpled raincoat, he might have assumed the same posture. —Thomas Schatz—Hollywood genre movies.
The black detective is always incompatible with the environment he is in. His outdated concepts and persistence are often ridiculed. And he is always unable to integrate into the community he is in. He is alone and single-handedly faced the challenge, because he is the knowledge of modern society. The spokesperson of the element, the insightful intellectual is always lonely. No one wants to hear their rumors. People love grandstanding and clever rhetoric. In this world, most people don’t want and don’t need to see the truth.
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movie, Somerset witnessed a robbery on the way to the library in the rainy night of Somerset. The taxi driver asked him where he was going, and he said ~~ Stay away from this ghost place.
For the city that has become accustomed to indifference, Somerset has gradually become discouraged and wants to leave. For the community that rejects him, he also wants to return by rejecting him. In fact, the tough detectives in film noir are always separated from the organization, because organizations are often corrupt and linked to the dark forces. So they are usually private investigators, and they are not even listed for business. This ambiguous role also makes them wander between law and crime and become communicators.
And David Mills was targeted by a serial killer/fatal female and his family was ruined. He himself couldn't resist his own destiny = character and committed a crime he knew he couldn't do-anger. He is the biggest victim in the film. He also kicked the trigger knowing that he was about to perish. Mills fits perfectly with the typical victimized white male in the film noir.
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Mills desperately wanted to remember the name of the drug dealer he shot and killed, but he couldn't remember.
The film also includes two classic film noir male characters, the black detective Somerset and the victim/criminal white male Mills. Some people will complain that the detectives in this film seem too helpless, but the black detective is destined to be unchangeable. The overall situation, and the victimized white male is destined to sacrifice tragically. Mills appeared from the beginning to become the sacrifice under the film noir genre~~ He may also be the most tragic sacrifice in the history of film noir.
Although the victim/criminal white male in film noir is not pure and innocent~~ He must have desires or defects. David Mills's defect is to overindulge himself with sudden anger at any time. However, the victimized/criminal white male must have his good side~~ His original bright and happy life, and his bright future in the future, contrast his misfortune after being tempted by a fatal feminine. Because the prototype of the victimized/criminal white male is Adam in the Garden of Eden, the story of the victimized/criminal white male is the story of how mankind lost his innocence, his beauty, and fell tempted by darkness.
In contrast to the sophisticated and sophisticated black detective in the film who has lived in the city for decades, David Mills seems too naive and enthusiastic. In the film, when Somerset went to Mills’ house for dinner, the conversation between Somerset and Tracy can learn about the environmental background of David and Tracy before they came to the city.
David and Tracy began to fall in love in high school, and they knew that they would promise each other a lifetime. Somerset was very surprised by this. He said: These years are quite rare.
This is the romance of a bygone era. Married people in this city continue to have affair and derailment. The longing for love has long been shattered. The family as the core unit of society is crumbling, not to mention this kind of mutual promise from a young age. The unchanging old age ~~ or the values belonging to the small town, this makes Somerset, who has lived in the city for decades and always remembered the morals of the old age, began to change his impression of Mills.
However, as the victim/criminal white male character in the film noir, it is important to emphasize the innocence that he is about to lose, and more importantly, to lay out the reasons for his loss~~It is his desire and his flaws. David Mills was chosen as one of the sinners because he indulged his strong temper. The film continues to describe this obvious characteristic ~ ~ not only impresses the audience, but also impresses the murderer.
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Mills was facing the reporter's sudden interview, and the characteristics of the rage were at a glance~~ Somerset's comments were impressive, and Mills also seemed a little embarrassed about his out-of-control emotions.
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This scene is also an important reminder for the whole film. After Somerset and Mills let the suspect escape accidentally, Mills wanted to force in John Doe’s residence was blocked by Somerset. Somerset explained to him why he could not enter under this situation. After falsely agreeing, Mills still kicked the door open with an impulse. This scene not only describes Mills' violent temper. And the shortcomings of refusing to use your brain to act with will, it also shows that even when a rational voice like Somerset checks and balances on the side, Mills still can’t restrain and let his impulse go, and made a point for Mills’ failure at the end of the play. Function.
two. There
is only one female character in the fatal feminine Se7en~~ Tracy, but she is obviously not a femme fatale. Let's examine what the fatal negative in Se7en is. The fatal negative in Se7en can be seen as divided into two ways, which are presented in the first half and the second half of the movie.
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photo explanation: Although the city background of Se7en is daytime, it is still so melancholy and breathless.
1. The city
first is the city. The film initially revealed the black detective Somerset's frustration and distrust of the city, and constantly released the message of wanting to escape. This is the same as the black detective's practice of treating femme fates.
Black detectives are usually sophisticated and sophisticated, and usually distrust femme females. His relationship with femme fatales is usually both cooperative and confrontational. On the contrary, the white victim is usually a seemingly innocent American citizen who is seduced by a fatal feminine and sinks into a crime.
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And Mills is ambitious, he is anxious to show his skills when he first arrived in this city, wanting to become a city hero. (Becoming a fatal feminine lover??)
The image of de-domesticization in the city
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This is a very important family imagery scene in Se7en.
This feature not only breaks the gap between two black and white detectives, young and old, with completely different personalities through Tracy—the only woman in the film—from Somerset and Mills to William and David At the same time ,
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also presents a small but very warm and functional family image.
However, it is well known that film noir is de-family, which is a breakdown of the American dream. Therefore, when the family appears in film noir, there is only one function~~that is, to be destroyed.
The city has also played a function similar to a deadly feminine character here. She destroyed the family that Somerset might almost be able to form, and also destroyed Mills’ trembling and warm nest~~ The home set next to the subway is a hint. The city continues to invade and destroy the family.
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Tracy's first impression of this city is
like a woman's keen intuition, knowing that this city will be the femme woman
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who ruined her family. The reason why the black detective Somerset has been alone is also due to urban factors. The image of the city as destroying the family can be said to be very clear, just as the murder at the beginning of the film happened in the family~~ caused by the violence of family members. In film noir, the family is almost always ruined and endangered, even if there is a sweet time, it is less than five minutes of illusion~~ It is like a nest trembling at any time on the side of a city subway.
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Picture explanation: Through the process of hunting down John Doe, the director allowed Mills to break through one of the noises that have always been hidden in the background, the neighbor’s TV Machine noise. Presents the uninvented, monotonous and repetitive life of contemporary urban residents.
Noise is also part of the city
Like Blade Runner, the city in Se7en is full of sin and corruption, rainy, muddy, and dirty.
However, unlike Blade Runner, the city in Se7en does not present a bright, colorful neon side. Blade Runner creates a city through advertisements, messy streets, flashing neon lights, and majestic but gloomy buildings. Imagery. Se7en uses low-color images. This style obviously echoes the classic period of black and white movies, and it also reflects its gloomy and oppressive urban atmosphere. In addition, in order to focus on the handling of crimes, Se7en, unlike Blade Runner's extensive description of the city's exterior scenes, has adopted other methods to describe the city.
At the beginning of the Se7en movie, the protagonist Somerset has not yet appeared, and when the screen is still dark, the background sounds begin to show through the car horns, the horns of ambulances and police cars, the crying of neighbors’ children, the sound of walking on the road, and the sound of TV. Even the sound of rain is often amplified to almost overwhelm the main character's speaking volume. These environmental sounds appear in the film occasionally, to make up for the lack of ink on the city in the image. He not only presents the atmosphere of the city, but also creates a taste of daily life. And sin is a kind of daily life, not an occasional phenomenon. This is the impression that I want to emphasize again and again in the film.
For the description of sin, indifference, and helpless city
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The description of the city in film noir is often inseparable from the garbage symbolizing corruption and evil
Sin is like rubbish everywhere. Not only is it filling every corner of the city, but the city residents are also accustomed to turning a blind eye. Film noir often accuses the city of indifference. One of the crimes is rampant because people are indifferent to other people. Because of the high density of the city, people have to maintain a relatively safe distance from each other. This kind of spatial It is an inevitable phenomenon that has to appear under high density to get closer but to cause emotional alienation. However, over time, people become accustomed to indifference and regard indifference as a virtue. The safest relationship in the city is the relationship of consumption. In this kind of materialization of each other, people do not have to feel guilty about the lack of management of interpersonal relationships. The dead body on the road, the glutton or the lazy person under house arrest next door, have nothing to do with me, just an object, just a person who does not need to contact with me, this is the city described in Se7en, this is what it is So John Doe can commit crimes easily, because fat neighbors don't want to cause trouble, because a living dead who pays rent on time without saying hello is the best tenant. In this city, if life is in danger, the best way to call out is a fire, rather than help, because a fire will attract the crowds, and calling for help will make these people flee for their lives.
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Se7en, Mills interrogates a pimp. The prostitute under him is the victim of a serial killer.
Mills asked critically: Do you like your job?
Do you like what you see?
The pimp replied: No, I don't like
it, but life is like this.
Under the capitalist environment, people and his work are alienated. In fact, no one really likes their work. They just live by this, nothing more.
The pimp's answer revealed the true face of life in the city.
Seven replaces the description of the appearance of the city with indifference, alienation and alienation, ubiquitous crime and urban noise, and expresses the deeper nature of the city.
2. Another deadly female in the movie Killer
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appeared in the midfield with a blurred figure
It
is not enough to want others to listen to you and pat him on the shoulder. You
have to shock him
so that people can listen to you carefully. What can
John Doe
be more symbolic than a serial killer of the crimes brought by the city? The answer is: to correct this A serial killer who is famous for the crime of the city.
The time when "Jack the Ripper" appeared coincided with the great social changes in the post-Victorian era: the formation of industrialization, the emergence of social conflicts, the lazy urban slutty in Portelaer’s poems, a new kind of anxious city The image is replaced. This is also the time for women to make their public appearances on a large scale in public spaces. With the rise of the feminist movement, physical violence in public spaces has become increasingly serious. Jack the Ripper at that time seemed to be playing the role of the moral godfather. His appearance is like rectifying the names of those "dirty" regions, rectifying the names of male power, and rectifying the names of a new kind of urban crime.
(International Herald Tribune-Wang Xin)
Another deadly feminine representative in Se7en is John Doe.
John Doe is just as the name suggests. He is an anonymous man. As a stunning serial killer, his character is not clear, and his appearance is also similar. An ordinary person is no different. The reason why his self is not clear (John Doe without fingerprints also symbolizes the erasure of personal characteristics), in addition to representing that he is an ordinary person-daily life, but also because he is just a medium, he is a speech The man, the agent, revealed the evil of this city through his actions.
I'm not special.
I'm no different from ordinary people,
but what I do is very special
-my work-
John Doe
And the reason why the murderer that the audience first saw felt special~~ It is precisely because of his "not special" that John Doe looks no different from ordinary people, to be correct~~ more gentle and rational. This is obviously a very different image for people who are expected to have a crazy continuous murder case. He is neither violent nor brutal, nor is he as demented as Mills expected, but just the opposite. His ingenuity is no less than that of Somerset, really speaking~~ The similarity between John Doe and Somerset is much higher than that of Mills and Somerset.
John Doe and Somerset have the same understanding of cities and crimes, but they have adopted different approaches.
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picture explains that the road is long and tortuous, and the hell will be bright as soon as it comes out-Milton Paradise Lost. The
rain finally stopped, but John Doe appeared.
He did not appear until the end of the film. At this time, the rain had stopped and the city was noisy. The ambient sound gradually subsided. Somerset and Mills in the background had just stepped into the police station, and the foreground had just got off the taxi. At this time, the murderer who could not see his face also followed in. The film began to transfer from the deadly feminine symbol of the city to John Doe.
John Doe with homosexual temperament also constitutes a fatal feminine feature.
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as a victim/criminal white male Mills, revealed his aversion to homosexuality from the very beginning.
~~ This is also in line with the masculine value standard of film noir.
And John Doe claimed to be trying to play her husband, trying to live a normal life but failed~~ It may also imply that he is not part of the mainstream gender concept.
John Doe, who belongs to the image of comrades, and the rainy dark city are therefore deadly feminine—the opposite of the two protagonists of the film's masculine temperament.
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Photo explanation: This is the scene where Mills first met with John Doe, and John Doe took photos of Mills. Mills' fiery temper left a deep impression. In film noirs, the victimized/criminal white males always fall in love with fatal negatives. John Doe's photos also imply this, just like Mills' comments when they found out that John Doe was a prostitute.~~"She caught John Doe's eye". He and the prostitute were indeed "favored"~~ It's just that Mills didn't realize that he was John Doe's real main prey.
If John Doe’s sexual orientation in this film is true, then it is more logical to explain the relationship between the fatal feminine of John Doe and Mills in film noir and the victim/criminal white male role. Mills can be regarded as John’s actual erotic object. What Mills attracts John is not only a very obvious anxious and irritable character-he can be a victim of sacrifices, but also because of his masculine masculinity for the feminine John Doe. A deadly attraction. Compared with Tracy, John's and Mills' rivalry scenes are more obvious than the former. Mills' and Tracy's rivalry scenes are mostly to create a warm family image, there is no impressive interaction, on the contrary, John seems to know Mills' personality very well. For all the weaknesses, he is quite good at provoking Mills' anger, and his visual focus is always on Mills (the photos of Mills he took). The object of his dialogue is always Mills. He seems to be the person who knows Mills best in this film (and he is quite certain that he will do it in the end). From this point of view, perhaps John Doe's final crime of jealousy was not what he claimed he was just "jealous of Mill's normal life", but in fact John was jealous of Mills' wife, and what John wanted to replace was not. Mills’ husband role, but Tracy’s wife role.?
And in this way, the scene where John Doe induces Mills to shoot at the end becomes a disguised rebirth of the fatal hug in double insurance. Only in this way can John Doe combine with his lust object Mills. It is only different from the death of the last fatal feminine of the previous film noir and the defeat of the victimized white male. Although the fatal feminine in Se7en is dead, it is a one. A completely victorious gesture, this can be regarded as a breakthrough in Se7en.
Paul Shrader analyzed seven common techniques for film noir styles. The first one is lighting,
"Most of the scenes are set according to night light. Gangsters sit in the office during the day and tighten the curtains and turn off the lights. Top light The pressure is very low, and the floor lamp rarely exceeds five feet high."
This is also the most impressive art style of film noir~~It is also my favorite art style. Johnnie To, who is good at film noir in Hong Kong, also shot many excellent films with this kind of lighting under most pitch black and single light source.
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David Fincher used this almost black, single light source or low lighting method in many scenes in Se7en to create a frightening and uneasy atmosphere. These scenes are the scenes of the glutton and the lazy, and the murderer is like a religious fanatic's residence.
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The scene of the bulimia
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lazy Scene
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Murderer's residence
blinds light and shadow
It should be mentioned in particular that since the heavy use of blinds in double claims, the blinds have almost become a symbol of film noir. Not only is it commonly seen in classical noir films, but almost all of them are used in neo-noir films. But the difference is that many new noir films use other methods to create beams of light and shadow of blinds. For
example, Blade Runner used to use the light from the fence or the wooden boards on the windows, and the more impressive ~~ is that he uses the rotation The giant fan in, cuts the light into a bunch of wandering rays. The light and shadow of the blinds can cause uneasy feelings because it destroys the structure of all the figures in the picture, and the swaying beam is more destructive than fixed blinds. Light and shadow, in Se7en, the beam of a powerful flashlight is used to create such an atmosphere. In the film, when SWAT induced by the murderer invades the lazy man’s residence, the lighting flashlight attached to the spear held by multiple SWATs, powerful light Continuously destroying the composition in the picture, the atmosphere of this
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The city of the tough guy detective film is always raining continuously, which is related to the fact that it is always raining in Los Angeles in Chandler's novels.
Paul Schrader also mentioned this in his stylistic analysis technique. I posted it once in the Blade Runner thoughts, and I posted it again here
"an almost Freudian attachment to water. Empty." The black streets (even the streets of Los Angeles) are almost always shining with the light of the new rain at night, and the amount of rainfall and the development of the drama have increased simultaneously."
The rain in Se7en is as violent as the Blade Runner, and so many When people mention Se7en, it’s not about his unbelievable case, but the background that has been raining until the end.
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However, what is very different from Blade Runner is that the final scene of Se7en is not as strong and fatal as Blade Runner. The image of the city's background instead brought the final scene to the desert like a western movie and the male symbolic scene full of electricity towers everywhere.
At this time, John Doe, who represented a fatal negative, seemed to be at a disadvantage, isolated and helpless.
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Picture explanation: The wasteland with nothing but the towering electric towers is a scene image of strong masculine temperament.
The possibility of being unable to ambush and the masculine aura seemed to give the detective a sense of security, but the oppressive composition revealed an aura of anxiety.
However, when John Doe's "work" appeared, the status of superiority and inferiority began to shift dramatically
-at this time, the angle of the camera began to shoot John Doe at an elevation angle,
and Mills approached the backlight, and the shadow symbolizing bad luck began to overwhelm him. The classic shadow technique of film noir began to play a key role.
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Picture explanation: Elevation and oblique composition and shadows are one of the hallmarks of film noir.
This not only brings out the extremely disturbing feeling of the film, but also shows that John Doe is completely in the upper hand.
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John Doe continues to tempt David Mills to vent his angry temper. At this time, the light and darkness in the picture are still evenly divided.
When the final jigsaw of John Doe's seven deadly sins is about to be completed, John Doe slowly closes his eyes, and the desert is full of sunshine. The male scene with absolute dominance of John Doe’s feminine face in the shadows is now full of proportions in the composition.
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Darkness triumphs completely
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The electrical towers of Somerset and Mills in the corner of the picture represent the estrangement between the two. Finally, the two of them acted in unison before the temptation of the devil, and Mills finally rejected the voice of reason and pushed him to the side. go with.
In the end John Doe died (the inevitable outcome of femme females), Mills also became Sinner (the end of the victimized white male being seduced by femme females and sinned down), and the background returned to the deadly feminine image of Dark City... the city and the crime of the city. Symbol-John Doe takes turns to play deadly feminine roles, which constitutes the brilliant use of role functions in this movie.
Many people are very impressed by the film's continuous rain until the last minute. The background of Se7en and Blade Runner happens to be a city that never stops raining, which is also Chandler's Los Angeles. The heavier the rain, the more rampant the crime in the city. However, here Se7en breaks through the convention and gives the audience a masculine sunny day at the peak. However, this masculine scene contrasts the overwhelming gloom of a serial murderer. This is Se7en's transformation of form and style. Surprisingly, he is different from the sunny field at the end of the Blade Runner cinema version. The Sunshine Field of Blade Runner is the black detective who escaped the control of the fatal feminine. He is temporarily out of fate. Although the future is still unclear, the Sunshine Field hints at a bright future. The sunny wilderness of Se7en hints at the dilemma that people have nowhere to escape. Even where the male image is overwhelming, it is still a deadly female who wins a complete victory. Such a dramatic effect is more powerful in expressing the sense of rational powerlessness. The win was several times, and everyone who saw it was deeply impressed.
Analysis of the black theme in Se7en.
Born in 1995, Se7en is a rather extreme noir film. It may appear later, but it is impossible to appear prematurely --- it is impossible for people to accept the apocalyptic atmosphere of the entire generation. Appeared before.
It is desperate and extremely dark, and it feels darker and more terrifying than any movie depicting demons or evil spirits such as the Great Master and other religious gods. Because the darkness exists in you and me, in every corner of this city.
The breakdown of rational myths
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Photo explanation: The librarian who owns the bookstore would rather play poker all night, here is a mockery of being deified since the Age of Enlightenment Rationality.
In addition, in the film, Somerset found John Doe's residence, and John Doe in turn found the two waves of offensive and defensive Mills' residence. The weapons used to break through were bribes—money.
For the crime committed by John Doe with careful thought, Somerset exhausted his reasoning ability, and scientific tests could not catch John Doe. However, the offense and defense of the two were finally completed with only a few dollars.
The film implies that the effect of rational logic is obviously far behind the power of money.
Many people feel frustrated after watching Se7en, either the police are too helpless, or they are too destructive. They
don’t know that if they don’t completely destroy the darkness and despair, it’s not Se7en. Se7en’s excellence lies in the fact that he once again boldly intensified and extended the theme of film noir, testing the limit acceptable to the audience, and the audience was stunned and able to embrace the film, which proved that the film said. It has always been in everyone's mind, but no one wants to admit the fact ~ ~ Before facing sin and the devil, reason is helpless.
Se7en is deeply frustrated, not because of the frustration of the police...but the frustration of reason. The police can't change the objective facts of crime. This is true in the movie, and it is also true in reality.
It’s not that John Doe was martyred to "Tao" that shocked and frustrated people, but the way John Doe was martyrdom ridiculed rationality, and Somerset, who represented the confrontation between rationality and darkness, was unable to prevent Mills from being together with his fatal feminine. Sink. The victimized/criminal white male in film noir is never pure and flawless. He has desires and a devil himself. He has committed sins to satisfy his desires. But the fatal negative job is just a successful feeding of desires and lure the devil out. Neff in double insurance is like this-for money, for women, and in the end, he didn't get money or women. The same is true in Seven, anger is the devil of Mills. John Doe saw this devil when he first contacted Mills, so he changed his plan. John Doe knew all the weaknesses of his prey, so he set the final round.
The Catholic Church uses seven demons/fallen angels to represent the seven images of sin (Note). The film described in detail the sinners and death methods of the six sins of the seven deadly sins. The purpose is to lay out the last sin, not the last sin-rage is more representative than the others. In fact, all the seven deadly sins are explored, and there is only one kind of ~~ That is the original sin of Adam and Eve, that is, the weakness in the face of temptation. Let the snake representing the devil enter the heart, and this is the only true sin. When John Doe executes all sinners, he provides sinners with different choices, and sinners finally choose their own sins, without exception. And before finally coming to Mills, he has more checks and balances that no one else has, and represents the restraining power of rational Somerset. This is the final climax of the whole film. Before temptation, can rationality resist the fall??
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Picture explanation: The last three persons of the film are in the same mirror. The whole film’s interpretation of crime and the depiction of crime are intended to lay the groundwork for the last This paragraph. When facing sin and knowing the consequences, what choices a person can make, or is there no choice before temptation??
In the picture, Somerset, who throws away his pistol, represents rational salvation. The Mills with guns represents sinners controlled by the devil who are struggling on the verge of falling. John Doe, who is handcuffed and knelt on the ground, represents the temptation from the devil. This climax drama deals with the struggle between reason and the devil before facing temptation, and the result of the struggle is obviously a complete defeat of reason. John Doe, who controls the overall situation, triggered the climax of the whole movie with the head of Tracy that never appeared on the screen. At this time, although Mills was horrified by the murder of his beloved wife, he was still resisting both the devil’s tricks and the anger in his heart. Struggling for a while, but John Doe finally showed his box treasure—Mills's unborn child, which completely defeated Somerset's fragile maintenance of rationality. Quantities. Mills is not a shot for a momentary loss of mind. The longer he struggles, the side representing rationality has been compared on the balance, and Somerset's failure also represents rationality's fragility.
As the saying goes, character determines fate, and Se7en points out more clearly that even under the freedom of choice, man is still a slave to fate. Even if he knows that darkness is about to prevail, he still cannot make different decisions. Depravity is inevitable, and destruction is also inevitable. He points out the falsity or powerlessness of reason, and makes the darkest prediction for contemporary cities.
Despair and despair... At the end, there is a little light
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The last sentence of Hemingway in the Se7en_102 film ends: "This world is a good place and it is worth fighting for. I
also commented: I agree with the second half of the sentence. The black detective is hidden under the sunset.
China Town, directed by Roman Polanski in 1974, also reflected the powerless plight of intellectuals. Jack Gittes, played by Jack Nicholson, was not only unable to expose the criminal system covered by the wealthy Noah Cross, but even could only watch his client and lover Evelyn. -The most tragic victim of the whole case died before his eyes. And he can do nothing. The last sentence of the film "Forget it!! Jack, this is Chinatown!!" Inscribed an epitaph for contemporary tough guy detectives. The film directly looks at the fact that intellectuals are powerless in the system, even Maro has a bit of romance. Not willing to give. Let’s see if Se7en, 21 years later, also echoes this view~~
As mentioned earlier, the tough guy detective Somerset represents the main point of view of the film, and the attitude of the tough guy detective also determines the attitude of the film. The tough detectives in the film noir represent the situation and attitudes of intellectuals in today’s society. Seven pointed out that contemporary urbanites are indulged in temptation, indulged in sin and insensitive, and intellectuals feel this situation for a long time. Tired and discouraged and unable to exert force, he cannot change the sinking of this world and thus has a mentality of escape. In the film, there is a conversation between the police captain played by R. Lee Ermey and Somerset, which illustrates the true mentality of Somerset. The captain did not believe that Somerset would resign and leave the city like this, and Somerset replied to the captain with the case that happened last night~~ A man was attacked and his watch and wallet were taken away from the sidewalk. He fell on the sidewalk. The murderer pierced his eyes with a sharp weapon, and the place where it happened was nearby. Somerset came to the conclusion that he could no longer understand what people were thinking, which was the reason why Somerset could not continue. In response, the captain replied: Maybe people have never changed. People are not unchanged. They have been like this many years ago. It's just that with the deepening of urbanization, urbanization is not a day or two, nor is sin. What really changed was Somerset's own attitude. This is the same as Mills' observation. At the end of the conversation in the tavern, Mills directly pierced his escape mentality...
Mills:
Listen to what you said, and you said, "The problem is that people don't care,...so I don't care." It doesn't make sense.
Somerset:
Do you care?
Mills:
Nonsense.
Somerset:
Then you can change all of this.
Mills:
But I don't think you want to retire because of these ideas, but because you want to retire.
You want people to identify with you, identify with the chaos of the world, and we should all live alone.
But I quit, I do not agree that you
do not
I can not
When Somerset met Mills on the first day, he asked Mills why he wanted to move to this city, and Mills replied that it was like Somerset's young ambitions. Although Somerset felt abrupt and offended at first, as he got along with him, he did see the shadow of his youth from Mills, and at the same time the value he believed in in the past from Mills. The value of a traditional town, the innocence of Tracy, and Tracy and Love between Mills. Mills has enthusiasm but lacks the wisdom and experience like Somerset. Although Somerset possesses wisdom and experience, his enthusiasm has long since ceased. During the key conversation in the tavern, the black detective began to question his goals~~ His escape was just an excuse, but an excuse not to continue to work hard for the world. He was moved by Mills' frank enthusiasm, so after tossing and turning, he decided to continue the case with Mills. But Mills and Tracy eventually fell victim to this case, which is the biggest tragedy of the film. However, Mills’ enthusiasm and Tracy’s innocence continued to influence Somerset, making him still willing to continue to fight for it~~ He did not fight for the beauty of this world, no, this world is not beautiful, he is for what Mills once had. Struggling with enthusiasm, he is fighting for the innocence that Tracy once had, and fighting for the love between Mills and Tracy and their other existence in this world. "This is not a fragrant world, but it is indeed the world in which you and I live." (Chandler) What matters is not whether this world is beautiful, but whether we are willing to move towards a beautiful, whether we are still willing to believe that this world can be struggling And become better.
After Seven's Pandora's Box released endless darkness, it provided the world with this little remaining light of hope.
Note that the seven deadly sins are represented by the images of seven demons. They are Lurife for Pride, Asmodeus for Lust, Beelzubub for Gluttony, Berial for Sloth, and Leviathan for Envy. , Mammon stands for Greed, Satan stands for Wrath (Wrath)
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