SEVEN – Psychogical Thriller 1995 (18)

Main character:

Brad Pitt – Detective David Mills

Morgan Freeman – Detective Lt William Somerset

The beginning
- Use of props tie and shirt – formal clothing
- Props, knife, badge ordered and tidy- everything is ‘perfect’/organised- OCD?
- 54 sec in and dead body audience is thinking – ‘why is he dead?’ 
- Unconventional – death straight away, less than a minute into the film because less than a minute into the film and there is already a death.
- Withheld information for mystery
- Audience feels uncomfortable because there is loads of blood
- Dim light only on the body suggest that it is the main focus for the audience
- Prop: photo of child
- Other detective think it is a stupid idea – Freeman is focusing on his job and get to the bottom of the body and how he died
- Introducing Brad Pitt, chilled,
- Props: brad’s clothes, chilled, scruffy
- Brad Pitt is chewing gum – chilled out
- Pitt walking faster which suggest him going into the situation and rushes his decisions. Walking up the stairs seemed rushed and maybe everything that he does is rushed and quick thinking
- Low angle shot to suggest power or authority with the detectives. Show dominance with the low shot
- Rain – typical convention of a thriller. The flushing a way of life
- Typical convention of a thriller
- Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt arguing even though they have just met creates mystery
- Morgan Freeman says what he thinks whatever is in his mind
- Two shot to show equality and Pit has come up to Freeman’s level
- SEVEN (name of film) and Freeman is leaving the police force
- Pitt begin to get defensive about himself
- Freeman’s bedroom – the voices are in his head and the tick-tock could represent time quickly moving and maybe he being hypnotised and him maybe trying to forget.
- After the introduction, there was a black screen and the music began and then the credits came onto the screen.

- Monday – first day of the week and going through the week, 7 days.

- From Brad Pitt looking out the window to the straight cut to him sitting on the bed and him picking up the phone really quickly to not wake his wife is signifying the love for his wife and how he looks after and cares for her. Freeman audience point of view, him keeping his arm around her when she was sleeping shows them that he is keeping her safe and protecting her.

      - The shot with Brad Pitt standing in the rain with two coffees and tries to give one to Morgan Freeman but he denies it this shows that Freeman’s character wants to get on with his job and won’t give up until and has found out what has happened to these people and he wants to get on the investigation.

      - The low angle tracking shot follows their exact movements and gives a sense of involvement with the audience

      - Freeman’s character in front of Pitt’s character shows the power that Freeman’s      character thinks he has over Pitt’s character and it seems Freeman’s character seems more eager to get on with it than Pitt’s character does.

      - Pitt seems slightly arrogant, cocky and cheeky with the other police officer and by giving him the coffee cup and walking off.

- A dark room portrays danger and mystery

      - Two TVs, one with an ocean - suggests danger, freedom and escape...

- Using this shot in the dark and not placing his face in this shot doesn't show Morgan Freeman facial expression.

      - Has non-diejetic sound perhaps gives a sense of mystery

      - 1^st of the seven deadly sins, Gluttony – fat man feel dead in the bowl of food – uncomfortable to the audience

      - The killer placed several tins of spaghetti sauce to prove his point that no one needs that much food and it is just pure greedy

       - The director has used a low angle shot and the torch shining down on something and as the audience now would want to know what it is. The shot with the wire around the feet shows that it is killer that killed him and not the victim that had a heart attack or something to do with food

       - Morgan Freeman’s character is always one step ahead of Brad Pitt’s character but we as an audience, we need to wait for Brad Pitt’s character to decide what is happen before we understand what is going on

       - 'Could you please be quiet’ – Morgan Freeman’s character, Detective Lt William Somerset, suggest the relationship with Brad Pitt’s character and shows that Freeman’s character is more dominant that David Mills.

        - Bucket full of vomit shows the audience what the killer has succeeded and as Brad Pitt backs of it shows that Pitt is more fearful than Freeman because he just asks ‘is there blood in it’. Instead of shows his feeling about the vomit, he wants to know details about it.

         - Morgan sends Pitt outside because he feels that he isn't capable of the murder scene.

Seven’s title sequenc
- Begin starts opening pages
- Hands- fingerprints- uncomfortable for the audience
- The audience
- Peeling of the skin on his fingertips - 
- There is a meaning behind the ‘7’ in ‘SE7EN’
- Music: screeching – uncomfortable and the sounds that jump into it make the audience feel on edge – repeated
- Journal – prop
- Photos
- No colour, black and white
- Music is fast paced – keep audience keen
- It doesn't relate to the start of the film
Investigation
- Font of the writing, disguise the handwriting
- Background information of what is going to happen in the film.
- The screen keeps turning red and some random point in the title sequence- covering up something important
- Nail in the head – very uncomfortable for the audience

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