Analysing Se7en's city

The board has enlisted sins. Typewriters filled the room, filled unsolved desks, phones do not stop ringing and chaos feels at the station. Mills impatient listening speculation Somerset, who admires the murderer increasingly Yoda. Somerset rushed out without explanation, Mills behind him. Library; Pizza restaurant; barbershop; Street; departments; corridors; rooms; abandoned theater; back to the street; cars; garbage crowd and finally an alley. All the chaos concentrated in one space, the city.

The city is the most accomplished concept of human room. The city ranks as the end of social construction. No matter how developed or undeveloped is the city as their homes or buildings, streets and bridges, with their energy and water services, with their places of public assembly, with its web of overhead or underground cables, with their networks of pipes and drains; all cities reflect a latest concept: the chance to live surrounded by the rule of human objects and thus feel secure.

The place where a security that allows us to develop socially created. This idea is discussed in time when he intends to provide security city corrupted by elements arising from the same.

Through the picture, sound, staging and plot and narrative, Se7en reflects this idea, where the security of the city is threatened by what constitutes it. The order of this is based on chaos.

The first time we noticed disdain, even contempt, that the characters feel toward the huge city without name of the movie was in the post-discovery of the mutilated body of attorney Eli Gould scene. In this sequence, the police captain enters the office of Detective Somerset, and begin to talk about life after retirement of the latter. It is in this part when Somerset first refers to the place where he lives as a place that does not understand. It is not the last time on the tape that the detective refers to the city in this way.

Other characters, like Tracy, the wife of Detective Mills, and even the main antagonist of the story, John Doe, refer to the city as a place that is foreign to them. We constantly see characters who inhabit the city, but are not part of it. We could even talk that the city is made up entirely of people who are external to it. Although that is not the main theme of the film, the city seems a point important to the same end, without which the story would take place in a very different way. For this reason we decided to focus on the way in which the city through the order set chaos, order and how this influences the development of the characters.