Se7en - Setting and Location

Se7en

Director - David FincherFight Club (1999), The Social Network (2010) and Gone Girl (2014)

The main characters in this movie are:

o   Brad Pitt  = Detective Mills

o   Morgan Freeman  = Somerset

o   Kevin Spacey  = John Doe

o   Gwyneth Paltrew = Tracey

Outside the crime scene

In a city (inner city) – streetside (built up area) > Poorer area, old buildings > High rise (CONVEMTIONAL AREA FOR CRIME)
Environment look very 90s, it looks old and decrepid
 Busy – Sound of cars, many people hustle bustle
Unsafe – Diegetic sound of siren, dead body being carried out
Rainy – Cloudy, gloomy, oppressive
 It looks trashy/ cheap/ old/ depressing – garbage around 
Color pallete – Green, brown, grays
Aggressive – Man pushes passed
No manners – A man cut in the middle of Mills and Somerset

Somerset’s flat

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Old fashioned – Clothes InVery neat – picking out some litter out of his suitLacking or colours – white, browns, beigeDiegetic sound – cars outsidie, neighbours (in the flat), raised voicesThe city is still present even in his own space
 Violence – flick knife > implies outside is dangerous