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DESCRIPTION:\n	Introduced by Adam Nayman\, author of David Fincher: Mind Ga
 mes \n\n\n	Followed by a book signing in the Moving Image Store at 9:00 p.
 m. \n\n\n	Dir. David Fincher. 1995\, 127 mins. 35mm. With Morgan Freeman\,
  Brad Pitt\, Gwyneth Paltrow. Coming out of self-imposed exile after exper
 iencing traumatic studio interference on Alien 3 (1992)\, the 30-year-old 
 Fincher returned with this landmark serial killer drama\, an arresting and
  sleeky grotty&nbsp\;vision of an urban American hellscape. An odd couple 
 in a buddy cop scenario played deathly straight\, Freeman is wizened pessi
 mist Somerset and Pitt is callow optimist Mills\, together pursuing a kill
 er whose terrifyingly baroque murder schemes take inspiration from Catholi
 cism’s seven deadly sins. Protected from compromise by Pitt\, at his matin
 ée idol peak\, Fincher was able to preserve the original ending of Andrew 
 Kevin Walker’s script\, which\, as rendered here\, still shocks in its gle
 eful punk irreverence\, which has characterized the filmmaker’s best work 
 ever since. \n\n\n	Excerpted from the book David Fincher: Mind Games\, by 
 Adam Nayman\, published by Abrams Books: \n\n\n	“Wanting people to listen\
 ,” says John Doe (Kevin Spacey) to Detectives Somerset (Morgan Freeman) an
 d Mills (Brad Pitt)\, “you can’t just tap them on the shoulder anymore. Yo
 u have to hit them with a sledgehammer. And then you’ll notice you’ve got 
 their strict attention.” \n\n\n	As a self–styled fin–de–siècle aesthete jo
 intly projecting his superiority and self–loathing onto the world around h
 im\, John Doe wields his art like a sledgehammer\; he has to\, because he’
 s on the margins of a marketplace oversaturated with morbid images and ide
 as. In order to make an impact\, he must swing for the fences\, and in thi
 s context of millennial excess\, his analogy scan as a weaponized sotto vo
 ce aside on behalf of his director\, halfway between a brag and an ironic 
 plea for clemency. Whatever else you can say about Se7en\, it is not a tap
  on the shoulder\; whatever ambivalences or contradictions David Fincher c
 ultivates in his second feature\, he gets\, and keeps\, our strict attenti
 on. \n\nTickets: $15 / $11 senior and students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / di
 scounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). Order tickets. Please pick up tickets 
 at the Museum's admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admis
 sion. Review safety protocols before your visit. \n
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LOCATION:Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater
SUMMARY:Seven
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