Se7en - Genre

Definition of "genre" and "Fin de Siecle" by the dictionary:

Definition of GENRE

Genre: "A category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content"

 

Se7en contains horror and neo-noir things. The type of genre can be a horror, suspense, detective-police film, a lot of murders and a lot of evidence to prove this. Is a detective thriller, is very complete, and give different senses when we analyze the movie by characters, settings, sound, etc. Types of film-noir exist here. The movie moves along the seven deadly sins, gluttony, envy, lust, pride, sloth, greed and wrath. The horror and the suspense exist here in a great number of sadistic murders, investigate by two police detectives, one called  David Mills (Pitt) and the other William Somerset (Freeman), the noir elements we can see it along the movie, the lighting, setting that the movie use.

 

Definition of FIN DE SIÈCLE

Fin de Siecle: "Of, relating to, or characteristic of the close of the 19th century and especially its literary and artistic climate of sophistication, world-weariness, and fashionable despair"

 

 

The movie it takes part along an unidentified city, a lot of raining and urban decay. The different type of characters analyzing them, how different they are.

 

 

Bibliography: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fin+de+siecle?show=0&t=1318855391

 

 

 

Se7en

Noir elements of opening:

Setting:

• Always dark, cold, made through dark lighting and rain, always grey.
• Constant raining
• Cold day
• Grey and dark mood
• The buildings abandoned, the detective through the rain, probably cold with two coffies on his hand.
• Involving homicides.
• City police building, looks like a prison, type of lines like a laberint.
• Showing what day is in big.
• Showing a second murdered by a newspaper
• No morality, for example when they kill Victor, how they find it, FILM NOIR.
• Abandoned house of the victim, it looks really cold 
• Library show like a laberint 

Sound:

• The sound try to give us tension
• Diagetic sounds
• Sound depends on characters 

Characters:

• Vestiment, dark colours, not colorful clothes.
• David Mills: A lot of media, more people.
• William Somerset: Dark investigation, he is alone in the investigation, this show us the different worlds that the two detectives have. 
• Switching between the two detectives to compare them
•  How Mills investigate the case, seeing photos to solve something, and how the other read and fotocopy a book to solve the crime.
• Mills do a shortcut of Dante poetry because he don´t like to read, in the other hand the other detective read all the book in the library and also do fotocopies