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In Se7en the central relationship is a cliché – that of a green cop learning from a jaded old lag. Like all of Fincher’s films to date the whole story line is based around a gimmick (or hi-concept); that of a serial killer who kills when he judges someone to have committed one of the sins. They are each killed in a gruesomely fitting way. A glutton eats himself to death and so on. It’s nothing more than a gimmick, as we are not asked to care about any of the victims just to enjoy the description of their grizzly death. There is no sense that the detectives are about to nail the killer and save the next victim – we don’t see any detective work at all. And little plot or character development. The phone rings. There’s been another kill. Arrive at the scene and describe what took place. Only once is there the feeling that the murderer is near and he escapes pretty easily. Eventually the killer turns himself in because he wants the publicity. The killer then gets the cops to drive him to a location on the way he explains the movie – or more accurately tries to pretend there’s been a point. Any one who doesn’t guess what’s in the box at the end has simply not been paying attention. As for the general look of the film it seems to resemble early episodes of the X-Files.
To me Se7en is an ordinary film and yet it catapulted David Fincher into the now director for many people. I suppose you might say he directs hi-concept movies, a sort of darker Michael Crichton.
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