Analysis of Seven

In the very first scene of the title sequence we are shown the main character Detective Somerset.He is in his apartment getting up and ready for work. The Curtains are shown like prison bars which couldsuggest that he is trapped within his own home and his person life somewhere.The lighting is dim and dullin the room but the light shining in room the outside could suggest that it is encroaching of his own life. Then we see a a chess set on the table which could mean he likes to test himself and set up goals or challange himself. We then go to a shot of his work items layed out carefully along the surface. Somerset picks each one up with great care and places each one on his person and then the next one and so on. The items all suggest that he works in the police department and his item like the gun become a daily thing his job.

In the the next shot we see his clothes layed on the bed, Somerset notices the smallest like piece of dirt of his very clean and neat suit. It is then cut to a crime scene about a shooting. As a police officer is cleaning up Somerset asks if the kids saw the shooting in which the other officer responds with I don't care. This suggest that Somerset still has a emotional connection to such horrific things unlike the other officer. The next shot we have a new main character Detective Mills. Mills is shown in a different to way to Somerset, Mills give off
a pretty poor impression of how serious he take his job. His shirt is all messy and his tie has baskett balls on which isn't a smartly dressed of man compared to Somerset. Mills is also chewing gum and stands very confidently which shows he is cocky, unlike Somerset who is a stereotype of a detective.

In the next shot Somerset and Mills are walking down out of the building and into the street, people walk past some even push past the two characters which suggests the people that live around this area live in a urban sort of city where murder crime scenes are almost a daily thing where they live and the fact that they push past shows that the people around have no manners and are in quite rude and don't live in a upper class area. The lighting and background for the street is most dark and dirty and that it's raining makes it more gloomy atmosphere
for the area. Then we see that the two main characters are almost fighting for the lead in their conversation by walking in front of each other and trying to upstage each other in their conversation. In the end Somerset decides to take control and ends the conversation by waling away showing that he has the upper hand on Mills. The we cut to Somerset in bed in his apartment in a ordinary and quite boring bedroom with a bed light on. With books to show
his intelligence . The clicking of the clock is loud when Somerset tries to sleeps which could suggest the clicking as a countdown of his life.

We then cut to the opening credits which includes all the production team like cast , crew and the production team. Meanwhile music is being played which starts of slow and then picks up as the opening credits show and more in depth meaning. The writing and the beginning is a sharp and we can see images of injured of dead people mostly and they are all distorted to the audience. The sounds of a blade or razor is heard at the beginning which suggest weapons used and the fact that more images of dead people appear create a image of what is going to
happen in the film. When pages are sewn together it could suggest a method of a killing act of sewing people's flesh and the needle touching the skin connates violence in the movie. Through out the opening credits it creates a cliff hanger of what will happen in the film and how of the opening scene with the police and the opening credits with weapons and dead people connotes the film about crime and death in a form of genre of thriller for this film.