Dark thriller full of perfection

Rating: 10/10 (31 July 2013)

Its today's cult status this movie gained thanks to the excellent work of director David Fincher (whom this was only the second major movie in his career) and screenwriter A.K.Walker (who also wrote the screenplay for "8MM"). With this film Fincher ranked himself among the most wanted directors and gained a reputation of true heir of Hitchcock, which was confirmed by his later movies "Play" and "Panic Room". The assignment of roles in the movie is excellent, and I especially need to emphasize Brad Pitt's acting (as in "Fight Club") which proved that he is not just a beauty figure whose main task is to lure women to cinemas, but also showed that he knows to act! Freeman is excellent in the role of a veteran detective - like it was made for him, and Spacey in the role of the killer was, as usual, brilliant and gravely. The atmosphere of the film is so dark and depressing that the bizarre and terrible murders make it even more stressful. I was particularly impressed by the way murders were described, which are quite original and leave a big impression on the viewer. (Something like that was attempted in "Resurrection" with C.Lambert but not very successfully, and "Saw" - interesting, but not on a par with "Se7en"). All in all this is an excellent and original movie which is rarely seen.