Argumentative Essay On The Relationship Between Good And Evil In Se7en

At a very young age of eight, David Fincher’s passion for cinema grew when he was inspired by the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Born in 1962 Denver, Colorado, David Fincher moved to Ashland, Oregon in his teens, where he graduated from Ashland High School. During high school, he directed plays, designed sets, and managed lighting after school. One summer, he and a friend attended the Berkley Film Institute’s summer program, where he hoped to learn film as a true art form but instead was taught the technical production. Either way he was happy to engage is this and as his early film industry career started, he was a production assistant at his local television news station. Years went by as he directed propaganda films followed
It’s clear we do not live in a perfect world with perfect people, and Fincher exposes us to society’s true flaws. In Se7en, all people are corruptible and are only as good as our will power allows. Mills, for example, was a police officer who wanted to do some good and had the determination to serve justice by catching John Doe until Mills kills him. Detective Mills proves to Doe that we are all capable of evil, no matter how hard we try to hold back; it’s part of our human nature. Fight Club furthers the idea of how corrupted our world is by explaining capitalism as a corrupted system that doesn’t bring purpose or meaning to life. The corporate world makes us mindless drones. The Narrator feels the need to buy furniture from Ikea, believing that all of it and his luxury condo will bring him happiness. However, when he comes back from a business trip to find out his home exploded and there was nothing left, he later realizes he never really cared for his possessions. Fincher’s point here is to show that people are all consumers, yet materialism has failed to satisfy our lives. Another common theme found is religion, more specifically the seven deadly sins and our salvation. As we see in Se7en, human-beings are all sinners, but we neglect to acknowledge it. Mills is an example of the deadly sin “wrath”, who wants vengeance
The low blue and black lighting creates obscured shadows and silhouettes. It’s often covering half of a character’s face in dialogue scenes which is symbolic to the darkness in all of us and brings attention to their nature. Shadows like this hide John Doe’s face in Se7en to set mystery to his identity. The blue and black in Fight Club can lead a reference to the bruises one gets from the fighting. To convey a character’s story or surroundings fluid tracking shots are helpful. Fincher likes to avoid the sense of a human-being operating the camera to give us a real insight. The beginning of the movie Fight Club shows what Project Mayhem has planned by smoothly moving the camera to the locations the Narrator is discussing. This provides the audience a clear understanding what is happening outside the Narrator’s mind and a glimpse of the world around him. Se7en uses the technique when Mills arrives to the greed and lust crime scenes, through the stairs, doors, and hallways of a building we get a new flow of people pasting by and capture the action in the background of Mills arrival. You take notice the shots happen to represent the detective stepping into the mind of John Doe. Single-frame inserts also replicate the mind in Fincher’s movies. An image of Tracy Mills’ face appears when David Mills is stuck in the position