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Post by urbanpatrician on Mar 19, 2024 10:06:28 GMT
Preposterous. Se7en is a classic either way. It's a detective story that completely flashes out the crime and takes you deeper into it. Its appeal is in its detective work which makes it different than say Chinatown or The Big Sleep, which mostly just makes it convoluted to follow the tracks. But Se7en is in my opinion different than those 2 and the fact that we've never seen a movie like it is what makes it stand out. In my opinion it's a classic either way. The Silence of the Lambs on the other hand is more about the characters and the psychology between Lector and Clarice. I'm just saying that script is so well written it would not seem like a cheat, that's all ........ not saying it would have been "beter" just that artistically it's justifiable - I mean there's still a head in a box after all ....... One of the great things about Se7en are in the little detective pieces themselves ^.....like getting the " library list of people who checked out flagged books" and things like that....... as someone who at one time checked out of my local library Kosinski's Steps, Connell's Diary of a Rapist and Perec's A Man Asleep I am always afraid that the FBI will show up at my door looking for a serial killer........... when I'm mostly harmless and lovably odd and stuff The intricacies of Se7en's cold case/cold files kinda style and the whole serial killers cinematic universe is kind of like its own private SKCU....serial killers cinematic universe. It's a world of its own to inhabit. That guy just seems more like a Fight Club and The Silence of the Lambs guy ^ and that's ok.... but I think Se7en is better than both. Tho I do think Se7en and Heat and LA Confidential are less entertaining overall than Fight Club, Silence of the Lambs, and Pulp Fiction if I evaluate their degrees of appeal. Besides you're more wondering about Mills choice if I read correctly. Not meaning an entirely different ending.
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