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It's very shallow. I'm not sure why it is regarded so highly. Its just a bunch of scenes strung together with no build up or real explanation.
*Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman walk into some random dark room. They find somebody dead and see a word written on the wall.* The rest of the movie just consists of Freemans character harping on about his retirement. Then at the end the killer just hands himself in, wrapping the story up nicely.
The film does redeem itself at the end though. I thought the dialogue between Brad Pitt and Kevin Spacey, whilst in the car, was excellent. Good conclusion to. Overall I do quite enjoy this movie, but never realised how little explanation their was for the killers motives and how the 2 'detectives' end up in each new locationn upon my second viewing of this picture. Thoughts?
*Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman walk into some random dark room. They find somebody dead and see a word written on the wall.* The rest of the movie just consists of Freemans character harping on about his retirement. Then at the end the killer just hands himself in, wrapping the story up nicely.
The film does redeem itself at the end though. I thought the dialogue between Brad Pitt and Kevin Spacey, whilst in the car, was excellent. Good conclusion to. Overall I do quite enjoy this movie, but never realised how little explanation their was for the killers motives and how the 2 'detectives' end up in each new locationn upon my second viewing of this picture. Thoughts?
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Kibitzer wrote:
> The variety and how the killings were carried out was just beautiful.
Gee, you don't sound like a psycho! :-p
Watched first time, thought it was poop, my excuse being the same - not in the right frame of mind for watching a "don't eat whilst watching" movie and because it was late.
Second time round, was fantastic. Still makes me feel ill, really makes you cringe. Spacey, marvellous as always. Nice to see him play weirdo.
> The variety and how the killings were carried out was just beautiful.
Gee, you don't sound like a psycho! :-p
Watched first time, thought it was poop, my excuse being the same - not in the right frame of mind for watching a "don't eat whilst watching" movie and because it was late.
Second time round, was fantastic. Still makes me feel ill, really makes you cringe. Spacey, marvellous as always. Nice to see him play weirdo.
If I was going to say that it probably would have appeared in my previous post :)
*waits for "I was totally off my face" and other fase-saving comments*
My excuse is that I missed some of the dialogue. As I was watching se7en at about 2 in the morning. I was also possibly to tired to take it in. I wasn't really in the right frame of mind to watch this movie. I shall watch it again to fully appreciate it. Though I still don't really like it.
Yuss
Good film
Yuss
One of the more intelligent murder-type films.
The variety and how the killings were carried out was just beautiful.
Good film
Yuss
One of the more intelligent murder-type films.
The variety and how the killings were carried out was just beautiful.
Plus that Pitt is one hot puppy
It wasn't that you "dont hold the same opinion", it was the general idiocy of your comments.
"Overall I do quite enjoy this movie, but never realised how little explanation their was for the killers motives and how the 2 'detectives' end up in each new locationn"
I suggest you go and read Dante and Chaucer, as the film says to do, in order to appreciate the motives.
I would also suggest paying attention to the words that they speak, that clues you into the motives (a big hint is the car-ride to the supposed final victim).
As for how they ended up in each new location - Sloth was arranged, hence the 1 year to the date discussion. As were the others, except for Pride - John Doe's hand forced by their chance discovery of his apartment.
Somerset even says "We can't tell anybody how we ended up here, we didn't figure the trail here".
"Its just a bunch of scenes strung together with no build up or real explanation."
So these random scenes didn't tell you why Somerset was so weary of the life? They didn't indicate Mill's wife's unhappiness at their situation?
Mill's giving Somerset the tumbler of wine didn't show his lack of understanding of the finer things in life - highlighted by the wife's comment of "David would call you a fag" when Somerset drops the strip of wallpaper from his new home?
Sure, if you watch munching popcorn and enjoying the gunfights it can be a "shallow movie". But if you invest intelligence and a bit of thought into it, there are entire scenes that divulge information without neon signs of what they should mean.
I don't care if you didn't like it, but your reasons don't make sense.
"Overall I do quite enjoy this movie, but never realised how little explanation their was for the killers motives and how the 2 'detectives' end up in each new locationn"
I suggest you go and read Dante and Chaucer, as the film says to do, in order to appreciate the motives.
I would also suggest paying attention to the words that they speak, that clues you into the motives (a big hint is the car-ride to the supposed final victim).
As for how they ended up in each new location - Sloth was arranged, hence the 1 year to the date discussion. As were the others, except for Pride - John Doe's hand forced by their chance discovery of his apartment.
Somerset even says "We can't tell anybody how we ended up here, we didn't figure the trail here".
"Its just a bunch of scenes strung together with no build up or real explanation."
So these random scenes didn't tell you why Somerset was so weary of the life? They didn't indicate Mill's wife's unhappiness at their situation?
Mill's giving Somerset the tumbler of wine didn't show his lack of understanding of the finer things in life - highlighted by the wife's comment of "David would call you a fag" when Somerset drops the strip of wallpaper from his new home?
Sure, if you watch munching popcorn and enjoying the gunfights it can be a "shallow movie". But if you invest intelligence and a bit of thought into it, there are entire scenes that divulge information without neon signs of what they should mean.
I don't care if you didn't like it, but your reasons don't make sense.
Goatboy wrote:
> I think you should stick to films with car chases and mis-matched
> buddies.
Why, just because I was merely explaining that it's the reaction any person with an IQ would have reacted with?
I like se7en
Unless you were referring to Mr "I can't use actual letters in my name"
> I think you should stick to films with car chases and mis-matched
> buddies.
Why, just because I was merely explaining that it's the reaction any person with an IQ would have reacted with?
I like se7en
Unless you were referring to Mr "I can't use actual letters in my name"
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