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SE7EN – Can anything more be said about what a expansive film this is???? Well, now, YES because Current Line’s unique Double DVD is a unbelievable package and a MUST for any fan of the film. The film has once again been remastered from the unusual film elements and it has never looked better — even better than the customary Criterion laserdisc. Colors, shadowings, sound, inequity have all been adjusted for optimum carry out (one of the extras on disc 2 shows the before-and-after on several scenes) . Honest check out the green lamps in that library scene – WOW! The film is on Disc 1 and there are 4 separate commentary tracks…the most gripping one in my belief is Track 2 which discusses the genesis of the project from script, to selling it to a studio and the fight to support the novel ending. Fincher is always tantalizing, but hearing Andrew Kevin Walker discuss his inspiration for writing the script and the struggles to secure it made is even more enchanting. The explain slack one of the most novel screenplays in years is pure genius. “Extras”-filled Disc 2 features deleted scenes (including the recent opening) …most of which are impartial slightly extended scenes from the film (you gaze more of “Pride”, etc.) . There is also an alternate lop of the ending with different shots that was test-screened to an audience plus a storyboard of a different ending that was never shot. All of these arrive with or without commentary. An analysis of the opening credit sequence offers different angles and commentaries on 3 variants of the sequence. There are composed galleries with commentaries by the photographers. Yes, “Sloth” victim’s decay is included in the photos (unfortunately, not as clearly as it was presented on the Criterion LD) as well as John Doe’s notebooks and lair. There is only one theatrical trailer (where are all the tv spots, etc. that were on the LD????? ) and a short EPK. There are also some DVD-rom features on both discs (script-to-scene, etc.) to round it all out.
Only downside is that a lot of the extras on the Criterion LD are NOT INCLUDED HERE in any construct. Although Criterion holds the rights to their recent commentary track (Featuring Fincher, Pitt, Freeman, Bewitch Bottin, Walker, etc) and some other extras, surely Unusual LINE owns the rights to the tv spots and other such promo materials. Where, for instance, is the vast gallery of fresh artwork and poster concepts that so playfully obsolete the number 7 or the sins as the backdrop???? Fresh Line created these so why aren’t they included here? The Criterion disc also had out-takes and many other things not included here, so don’t ever toss that disc out! It’s obvious to be famous some day. And with this DVD, which also includes items NOT on the Criterion LD, they combine to acquire the ultimate “SE7EN” collection.
“At first sin is a stranger in the soul; then it becomes a guest; and when we are habituated to it, it becomes as if the master of the house.” – Tolstoy.
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Although not originating from the bible, the idea of deadly sins is almost as traditional as Christian doctrine itself. Theologians like 4th century Greek monk Evagrius of Pontus first compiled catalogues of deadly offenses against the divine order, which 6th century pope Gregory the Stout consolidated into a list of seven sins, which in turn formed the basis of the works of medieval/renaissance writers like St. Thomas Aquinas (“Summa Theologiae”), Geoffrey Chaucer (“Canterbury Tales”), Christopher Marlowe (“Dr. Faustus”), Edmund Spenser (“The Faerie Queene”) and Dante Alighieri (“Commedia Divina”/”Purgatorio”) . And in times when the ability to read was a privilege rather than a basic skill, the depiction of sin in paintings wasn’t far behind; particularly resulting from the 16th century’s reformulation of church doctrine, the works of artists like Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder brought the horrific results of humankind’s penchant to indulge in vice succor into general consciousness with surrealistic eloquence, reminding their viewers that no sin goes unseen (Bosch, “The Seven Deadly Sins”) and that its commission leads straight into a hell reigned by repulsive, grotesque demons and devils whose sole purpose is to torture those fallen into their hands (Bosch, “The Hay-Wagon” and “The Last Judgment;” Bruegel, “The Triumph of Death” and “The Tower of Babel”) .
More recently, the seven deadly sins have been the subject of Stephen Sondheim’s play “Getting Away With Kill” and a ballet by George Balanchine (“Seven Deadly Sins”) ; and on the silver cover the topic has been addressed almost since the beginning of filmmaking (Cabiria [1914], Intolerance [1916]) . Thus, “Se7en” builds on a solid tradition both in its bear domain and in other art forms, topically as well as in its near, denouncing society’s apathy towards vice and crime. Yet – and although expressly referencing the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, Chaucer and Dante – David Fincher’s movie eschews well-trodden paths and grabs the viewer’s attention from the beginning; and it does so not merely by the depiction of serial killer John Doe’s (Kevin Spacey’s) crimes, which could easily degenerate into a mindless bloodfest that would defeat the movie’s purpose. (Not that there isn’t a splendid fraction of blood and gore on display; both visually and in the characters’ dialogue regarding those details not actually shown; but Fincher uses the crimes’ horrible nature to effect a sense of stark realism, rather than for shock value alone.) In addition, Doe’s mindset is painstakingly presented by the opening credits’ frightened nature, his “lair”‘s apocalyptic makeup and his notebooks, all of which were actually written out (at remarkable expense), and whose compilation is shown underlying the credits. The movie’s atmosphere of unrelenting doom is further underscored by a color diagram dominated by brown, gray and only subdued hues of other colors, and by the fact that almost every outdoors scene is residence in rain. Moreover, although screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker explains on the DVD that the record was inspired by his observations in Current York (and the movie was shot partly there, partly in L.A.), it is place in a faceless, nameless city, thus emphasizing that its exertion isn’t a specific site but society generally.
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Central to the movie is the disagreement between world-weary Detective Somerset (Morgan Freeman) who, while decrying the rampant occurrence of violence in society, for great of the movie seems to have resigned himself to his inability to do something meaningful about this (and therefore seems to salvage apathy for himself, too, until his reluctant final turnaround), and younger Detective Mills (Brad Pitt), who fought for a reassignment to this particular station, perhaps naively expecting his contributions to actually fabricate a difference; only to become a pawn in Doe’s method instead and thus demonstrate that, given the accurate trigger, nobody is beyond temptation. As such, Somerset and Mills are not merely another incarnation of the illustrious old-cop-young-cop pairing. Rather, their characters’ development over the course of the film forces each viewer to question his/her bear stance towards vice.
Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt perfectly picture the two detectives; while Freeman imbues his Will Somerset with a unexcited dignity, professionalism and learning, muted by profound but not yet wholly irreversible resignation, Pitt’s David Mills is a brash everyman from the suburbs with an undeniable spin of prejudice, a penchant for lickety-split judgment and a thorough lack of sophistication, both personally and culturally. Necessary are also the appearances of Gwyneth Paltrow (significantly Brad Pitt’s real-life girlfriend at the time) as Mills’s wife Tracy and ex-marine R. Lee Ermey as the police captain. Yet, from his very first appearance onwards, this is entirely Kevin Spacey’s film. Reportedly, Brad Pitt especially fought hard for his casting; and it is indeed hard to imagine “Se7en” with anybody other than the guy who, that same year, also won an Oscar for portraying devilish Keyser Soze in “The Usual Suspects”: No living actor has Spacey’s ability to simultaneously explain spine-chilling villainy, laconic indifference and limitless superiority with merely a few gestures and vocal inflections.
While “Se7en” can certainly claim the “sledgehammer” carry out on its viewers sought by its fictional killer, the punishment meted out to Doe’s victims – taking their perceived sins to the rude – pales in comparison to that awaiting sinners according to medieval teachings. (Inter alia, gluttons would thus be forced to eat vermin, toads and snakes, greed-mongers do in cauldrons of boiling oil and those guilty of lust smothered in fire and brimstone.) Most serial killers have decidedly more mundane motivations than Doe. And after all, this is only a movie.
Right?
“Sin … engenders vice by repetition of the same acts, [clouding the conscience and corrupting the judgment.] Thus sin tends to reproduce … and reinforce itself, but it cannot slay the just sense at its root.” – Catechism of the Catholic Church (1994) .
Also recommended:
Getting Away With Murder
Red Dragon (Widescreen Collector’s Edition)
The Silence of the Lambs (Two-Disc Collector’s Edition)
Cabiria
Intolerance
The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)
The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
Aquinas: Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)
Bosch : C. 1450 1516 Between Heaven and Hell (Basic Series : Art)
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Skorts for Women