Devil (Kevin Spacey) is seven!

Rating: 8/10 (4 June 2003)

"Seven" by David Fincher: a movie that attracted a lot of attention and made Fincher go down in history. His efforts devoted to this very original thriller were rewarded since it was one of the most successful movies made in 1995. "Seven" is probably one of the peaks of the film noir. It's based on a clever and especially devilish screenplay. This devilish side is particularly obvious by certain moments during the movie (notably the end): when Kevin Spacey (the killer) is leaving some clues at places where he committed his murders. He's leaving clues so that Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt can pick up his trail but he's also mocking at police.

Moreover, can we really consider the end as a happy-end. Freeman, once says: "this isn't going to have a happy-end". He's partly true. Spacey died but he managed to achieve his grim intention and he broke Pitt's life. When you look at his face in the last pictures, you might think he went mad...
The movie is also wrapped in a sordid, dreary even stifling atmosphere. The kinds of feelings you must feel by living such a story. Like "Psycho" by Alfred Hitchcock, by moments, the movie is plunged into horror (the discovery of the murders).
At last, a dazzling performance comes to crown it all: a confident and a tiny bit conceited Brad Pitt teams up with a wistful and disillusioned Morgan Freeman. Both makes a perfect duet. And I think Kevin Spacey's performance is definitely his best one to date.
A thriller sometimes violent but always entrancing.