One of my favorites and one od the greatest od all time

Rating: 10/10 (21 April 2020)

Seven is a movie that made Fincher break into the Hollywood elite and become a top director. But it was not easy to come by.
Before that, he only recorded music videos and then got the dream opportunity, to shoot Alien 3, continuing the great franchise and succeeding two legendary directors: Ridley Scott and James Cameron. However, he did not get his hands free for the movie, his studio got too involved in his work and failed to make the movie as he had imagined it.
Fortunately for him, but also for us movie lovers, the movie Seven shot the way he envisioned it and as a result we got one of the best thrillers of the 90s.
In this film, we see the director's clear signature, and he uses it in almost every subsequent movie, which is an atmosphere and an unexpected twist.
The shop takes place in a nameless city, the atmosphere is gloomy, pessimistic, dark, the rain is constantly falling and the sun is not visible at all. The city is a complete replica of this kind of weather, this is a city where a woman is taught to shout a fire not help, where a robber stabs a victim in both eyes after a robbery, as we learn from the conversation of the protagonist. The lead roles are interpreted by the brilliant duo Freeman and Pitt as two detectives who are complete opposites. The first is an experienced elderly detective with no family, just before he retires and wants to leave this city. The other is a younger detective, married, confident and just moving out of a smaller town. What is one last case before retirement, the other is the first case in a new city. This is a very difficult, complicated and brutal case. We have a serial killer who tortures and kills a new victim every day who is associated with one of the 7 deadly sins. The killings are extremely bloody and brutal, in addition to the visual imagery, also later when describing their torture.
The only breath of positive or optimism in the entire film is in the character of a younger detective's wife.
Fincher does one brilliant thing, there is no actor in the opening credits who plays the main villain, and we only get to know him after a good hour and a half of film time.
In my humble and subjective opinion, all three actors have achieved one of the best roles in their film oeuvre, and given that all three top actors say so much.
When this movie just came out it didn't quite get the top reviews, the reason lies in the violence in the movie and the bizarre murders. Obviously, it took a certain number of years for this film to sit down and today this film deservedly bears the cult adjective.
I also have to pay tribute to director Fincher who completed the hattrick, making three perfect films in a row that only a few directors can boast. Two years after this movie, The Game, his most underrated film, is released, and then two years after that Fight Club, his perhaps best known movie, is released.
Seven is one of my favorite and best movies in general, not just a thriller and of course it gets a clean ten from me.