Seven (stylized as Se7en) is a 1995 American thriller film, which also contains horror and neo-noir elements, directed by David Fincher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker. It stars Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, R. Lee Ermey and Kevin Spacey. Shot in the United States, the film has a run time of 128 minutes with the only spoken language being English. The budget was $30 million yet the gross revenue was a generous $327,311,859
As the opening logos of New Line Cinema fade out, the camera fades from black into a shot of a man in a kitchen. There is little colour as the kitchen is mostly white, with the man also dressed in white. In contrast, the man is revealed to be African American.
There is no non diegetic sound, and the only diegetic sound heard is that of the man moving around his apartment and getting ready. Also heard (from outside the apartment) is the hustle of street life and Police sirens.
Shots seen range from medium-long shots, to a close up of the man in a mirror, to a shot of the man standing over his bed flicking dust off of his jacket.
A new scene is then shown, with a medium shot of a man dead on the floor. It can be immediately suspected that the corpse is a man as he appears to be wearing his underwear. Blood is also shown next to the corpse to further signify his death.
Diegetic sound of two characters talking can be heard, and the same streetlife sound can still be heard as in the previous scene.
The same man from the apartment is shown walking into the room beginning with a long shot that zooms out as he walks closer to the camera, he is now fully dressed in the suit he was preparing earlier.
Another man, is seen walking away from the man now identified as Somerset as another man walks up the stairs, dressed differently to Somerset in a leather jacket, looking untidy and scruffy.
A new scene shows Somerset and the scruffy police man outside the dead mans apartment, it is raining.
As the opening logos of New Line Cinema fade out, the camera fades from black into a shot of a man in a kitchen. There is little colour as the kitchen is mostly white, with the man also dressed in white. In contrast, the man is revealed to be African American.
There is no non diegetic sound, and the only diegetic sound heard is that of the man moving around his apartment and getting ready. Also heard (from outside the apartment) is the hustle of street life and Police sirens.
Shots seen range from medium-long shots, to a close up of the man in a mirror, to a shot of the man standing over his bed flicking dust off of his jacket.
A new scene is then shown, with a medium shot of a man dead on the floor. It can be immediately suspected that the corpse is a man as he appears to be wearing his underwear. Blood is also shown next to the corpse to further signify his death.
Diegetic sound of two characters talking can be heard, and the same streetlife sound can still be heard as in the previous scene.
The same man from the apartment is shown walking into the room beginning with a long shot that zooms out as he walks closer to the camera, he is now fully dressed in the suit he was preparing earlier.
Another man, is seen walking away from the man now identified as Somerset as another man walks up the stairs, dressed differently to Somerset in a leather jacket, looking untidy and scruffy.
A new scene shows Somerset and the scruffy police man outside the dead mans apartment, it is raining.
This sequence then cuts to Somerset in bed, late at night, showing a considerable amount of time has passed. A closeup is shown of Somerset's clock ticking as we also watch Somerset drift to sleep.
Thunder is then heard as the camera fades to black, Somerset is asleep.
The opening titles now kick in, interlaced with gruseome closeup shots of blood, writing, and fingerprint sawing. The shots are quick, gruesome and are accompanied by fast paced sinister music that increases in tempo as the shots increase in speed.
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