How SE7EN Challenged the Horror of "Realism" & "Meaning"

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• RY

  @RyanHollinger · 7 years ago · pinned

  <b>Favourite DAVID FINCHER movie??? GO!</b> I wanna see some love for Panic Room!

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• TA

  @tayyabhussain4527 · 7 years ago

  The best part about seven is that they don&apos;t really show the violence or gore but yet make it feel so disturbing and a lot more haunting than any other movie

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• ME

  @mep15067 · 7 years ago

  The true brutal realism in this video was the reality that Ryan made this whole video while waiting for his PS4 to finish a download

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• CI

  @Ciouden · 7 years ago

  This movie is a masterpiece in psychological horror. To me I don’t see any faults in what the film is trying to be.

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• TH

  @thehitherto5348 · 7 years ago

  The atmosphere in Se7en is nauseating - so grimy, bleak and dirty you feel like the flies are buzzing around you constantly. Alan Parker&apos;s Angel Heart is one of few equals I can think of.

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• 0G

  @0ghma_ · 7 years ago

  “Think outside the box”<br><br>I see what you did there, you sick, sick man...I love it!

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• AL

  @alexfurnas1263 · 7 years ago (edited)

  I would argue with your characterizations of Somerset and Mills respectively, as well as John Doe. &nbsp;Somerset&apos;s intrigued and almost reverent attitude towards John Doe reflects his own jaded cynicism about the world, which is the crux of his character arc. &nbsp;He starts off ready to give up and move out to the country, convinced the city is so irredeemably rotten and evil that he can&apos;t do any good anymore - this is a reflection of John Doe&apos;s similarly pessimistic perspective, in that he commits the murders out of a sense of disgust. &nbsp;This contrasts with Mills&apos; energized, somewhat naive perspective that he wants to do as much good as possible in the worst place he can find. &nbsp;He and Somerset have a conversation in a bar where Mills challenges Somerset&apos;s decision to give up and abandon the good fight, and it resonates enough to make Somerset throw his ticky clock later. &nbsp;The final sequence is a battle for Somerset&apos;s soul between Doe and Mills, particularly the conversation between Doe and Mills in the car - Somerset silently hears Doe giving a voice to his own internalized repulsion at the sheer magnitude of human folly and evil in the world, while Mills&apos; platitudes and arguments seem to ring hollow. &nbsp;But when it&apos;s all said and done, after Doe has destroyed Mills and butchered his family, Somerset can no longer deny the toxicity of that voice after seeing such a personal human fallout. &nbsp;The ending sees him finally snapping out of his apathy, realizing that such unmitigated pessimism and hatred is just another permutation of evil in the world, and accepting his personal responsibility to continue fighting it.

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• BR

  @brennanscarcello1443 · 7 years ago

  Sloth and Lusts reaction are forever engraved into my brain. I can still close my eyes and see those poor fucks. What a classic grim and macabre piece of cinema. Your videos are always a treat Ryan.

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• LE

  @leekalba · 7 years ago

  &quot; &apos;... the world is a good place and worth fighting for.&apos;<br>I agree with the second part.&quot;<br>That ending line always stuck with me.

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• NO

  @no_one01-5 · 7 years ago (edited)

  How ironic that the person who was punishing the kiddie fiddler, in the movie would later turn out to be one himself, in real life. Is Se7en now meta?

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• PE

  @persephoneblack888 · 7 years ago

  The &quot;lust&quot; murder always makes me ill. I only saw the movie twice because of it. I consider this a very well executed psychological horror movie. I watch horror movies constantly and very few have actually every made me uncomfortable.

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• TH

  @thegoblonoid · 7 years ago

  Worst part about ”sloth” isn’t the gruesome imagery of a barely living human, it’s the fact that I can see the actors arm lying ”hidden” next to the body giving him 3 arms, and it can’t be unseen. <br>But the first time I saw it I was traumatized.

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