FauxNixon

In my opinion Se7en is easily one of the forty best movies ever made.  It is cast with fantastic actors like Kevin Spacey, Gwyneth Paltrow, Morgan Freeman, and Brad Pitt, each portraying their well-developed characters in a manner that should have put them all into consideration for major awards.  The visual effects are haunting and make for a dark look at an American city through the eyes of police detectives working to solve gruesome serial killings themed around the seven deadly sins.  With constant rain in each scene of the movie and a solemn, dreary feeling to the scenes Pitt and Freeman in playing their pair of detectives contrast greatly with one a young, impetuous, inexperienced man trying to do his best work, and the other a wise, old detective, experienced in the investigation of what humanity is capable of doing, respectively.The scenes of the murders and ingenuity of the plot are haunting in their realism and shocking blatantness, but are indispensable for properly portraying Kevin Spacey’s serial-killing character.  The plot is intricate, the screenplay is well-written, the characters are well-developed, the visual effects are astounding and help the movie along.  This is definitely one of Fincher’s great films.