the following contains spoilers.
WHAT I WAS EXPECTING
Detectives race against time to hunt down a serial killer who conducts his killings based on the seven deadly sins. The film ends in a tense showdown in a field. And there's a box.
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REACTIONS
I've seen David Fincher's Fight Club (1999) and I noticed that besides Brad Pitt, this film also shares Fight Club's griminess. Fincher illustrates why Gyneth Paltrow's character can't wait to get out of the city. The production design and lighting portray the city as dark and dirty, a world of smoggy air, filthy floors and peeling paint. Even the walls in Pitt and Paltrow's own home are smudgy and stained.
Of couse all that grit and grime is just there to set the tone. This film is about a serial killer, after all. The film dwells the longest on the gluttony death but mercifully advances quickly through the rest as their implicit brutality is just as horrifying. I can only imagine how shocking the gore must have been to 1995 audiences, before such images of violence were as commonplace as they are now on shows like Dexter or even the average TV crime procedural.
Spacey as the killer was a surprise. Then again, I didn't know that Morgan Freeman was in the film either, despite his face making up half the dvd cover.
I had scene parts of the ending scene before, but never the outcome. I was trying to anticipate how the envy angle was going to be worked in. I was suspecting that Spacey was going to turn Pitt and Freeman against each other and manipulate Pitt into shooting Freeman but it was for the better that wasn't exactly the case.
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