*Se7en* made me so UNCOMFORTABLE!! 

27:06 "Ernest Hemingway once wrote: 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part."

John Doe doesn't think he's the best. He literally kills himself in his own plan because he judges himself just as terrible as everyone else.

Kevin Spacey nailed it on this role, like Anthony Hopkins nailed it when he played Hannibal Lecter on Silence of the Lambs.

Fun fact: The studio wanted David Fincher to change the ending because of how much of a downer it was, but they let him keep it after Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman threatened to walk out.

That ending was so memorable with one of the greatest plot twists in movie history.

Vicky: "With this build up, this better be the craziest thing I've ever seen." Me: Giggles maniacally.

*picks up Phone* This isnt even my desk. * hangs up*

Any time you hear "Whats in the box" you'll always think of this movie

No-one in the history of humanity has ever done "Buddy, buddy chest-shaving time".

The end scene is my favourite for a movie: so stressfull and unexcepted. Kevin Spacey played an iconic bad guy and very smart

It is my head canon that this is Gotham City prior to Batman taking up the Cowl.

No jury in the world would convict Mills for blasting him.

It's all fun and games until you find Gwyneth Paltrow's head in a box.

Kevin Spacey may be an absolute POS in real life, but goddamn is he a fantastic actor. K-PAX, if you've never seen it, is a great movie (in my humble opinion, of course).

This is one of the best thrillers made. It's paced well and tense. David Fincher delivered at master piece.

It was Spacey's idea to not be anywhere in the opening credits or marketing materials (posters, commercials, etc.), so that his reveal was that much more impactful. But as the star, he's contractually supposed to get top billing, so the compromise was that he get top billing in the END credits.

Everytime you watch the scene where Morgan Freeman laughs, you gain seconds of life...

Saw this movie in like 1999 and it’s still the first thing I think of when someone asks “what’s in the box?”

Fun Fact: the prop head for Gwyneth Paltrow made for this movie was reused for her corpse in Contagion, after it sat in storage at the studio for years!

"The Batman" with Robert Pattinson feels like it takes place in this universe. Very similar cinematography between them and the tone of both feels very similar.

"What's in the box?!" I ask that question every chance I get.

Little clue: John Doe's diary talks about having a headache so bad he pukes over a guy. The drawer of his desk in his apartment is full of empty aspirin bottles. So there's literally something wrong with his head, which is probably what made him insane.

The _Sloth_ jump-scare was legit. The director snuck the actor in prior to the scene, and told him not to move. That way, when the other actors came in, they totally thought the body was just a gross prop. They start the scene, guy stays dead still... for like 15+ minutes. So when he finally coughed, the other actors damn near died from the shock XD

Like that you made the Fight Club connection, seemingly without knowing both movies are from the same director.

"buddy-buddy chest shaving time" I worry about Vicki sometimes 😂

in 1997 Kevin Spacey hosted an episode of SNL instead of a monologue he sang a song. the funny part was the captions underneath him while he was singing. They have aged either terribly or wonderfully depending on your viewpoint: - The only reason we allowed Kevin Spacey to sing this song is because he threatened us. - Seriously. - He is a very sick individual with severe emotional problems. - For example, he demanded a separate dressing room for "the bad Kevin". - Kevin Spacey also has a history of violent behavior. - According to his court-appointed psychiatrist, you "should avoid making any sudden movements around Kevin spacey." - The next time you see one of his movies, just remember that Kevin Spacey plays psychos... - Because he really is a psycho.

V "So 7 refers to the number of days" Me "not even close"

Btw their boss is played by Lee Ermey, who famously played the senior drill instructor Hartman in Full Metal Jacket.

This is one of my favorite movies. Fun fact: this movie is called Seven, today is my birthday; I'm 47 years old, and my birthdate is 7-7-77.

This was one of the more difficult movies for me to watch. At the final scene I can't think of a single person that would not do what Brad Pitt's character did but at the same time morally I understand that two wrongs don't make a right

Buddy/buddy chest shaving and ding-dong mousetraps. Hahahaha! Her imagination cracks me up.

The first dead body is the writer. 1:54

They wanted to create a city that was a cross between NY, Boston, L.A. and Detroit.

What's fascinating about this movie is that it never actually shows you the most gruesome stuff it just leaves it up to your imagination

There's so much to say about the gorgeous and meticulous way Fincher shot this movie (like the rest), how and when he frames the actors, how and when the camera moves, why it switches from static to hand held, in line with how the story unfolds and at which point it becomes more chaotic and fast paced. Simply majestic. And that iconic ending.

Mills' large dogs confined to a tiny room was an added detail further driving the point that his family likely moved from a large suburban property and quite a different setting than their current situation.

The "What's In The Box?" scene is like the "I See Dead People." From the Sixth Sense, in that this many years after the movies came out, some people don't know the twist. I wish I could have that first reaction again, but its fun watching the younger reactors experience the surprise.

And not one jury would convict Mills of murder. He might even be police again after a time.

Maybe the darkest movie I've ever seen, chilling. But the execution of all the bits and pieces of it? Undeniable excellence.

"What's in the box?" became a very meme-able phrase with a very dark origin for those that saw the whole movie and not just the edited reaction scenes.

No jury in the world would put Mills in jail. Thats what you call justifiable homicide.

"I thought it was a little mousetrap he put on his ding dong" 🤣🤣🤣

"I thought it was just going to be a little mousetrap on his ding-dong." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I've watched some messed up movies with characters that committ terrible crimes and violations, I'm sure we all have, but I've always thought to myself, "yeah, if I wrote a script about a serial killer (etc) I could have come up with something like that". But that frickin harness John Doe makes the guy wear and he kills the prostitute with it, man oh man. In a million years I would never have thought about that, and I am a little bit worried that a supposedly upstanding citizen (whoever wrote the script or came up with the idea) thought of it at all, and is walking around among us. o.O

this is the kind of movie that changes a person....

Vicky is just too wholesome for this movie 🖤 When I think of a sick movie I think of something like Terrifier or Human Centipede 2 but I watched this movie when I was like 15 lol

David Bowie's "Heart's Filthy Lesson" when the credits roll, hits like a cold shower right after a hot one.

It's a skilled filmmaker who can make you feel things like that. I saw it at the movies in '95, I couldn't move until the credits had stopped rolling, I was so devastated. I've watched it 200 times since and it STILL gets me every time....

I haven't had "buddy buddy group chest shaving time" in a while. Good times

Absolutely love this movie. So many great touches. Right down to the credits scrolling from the top-down at the end

A very dark, disturbing, clever movie. Really well done. Whether you like Fincher’s work or not, he knows how to make a picture, and he was the right choice to direct a very clever script.

@19:05 That's legitimately Stan and Wendy in the first couple of seasons of South Park.

"He's acting so creepy. How is he such a good fit for this role?" Reviews the testimony against Kevin Spacey.

There's a reason this is one of my all time favourites. So well done.

Fun Fact: R Lee Ermey original auditioned for John Doe, but David Fincher thought he’d be better as the Police Chief… but Ermey as John Doe would of been wild lol

FINCHER.

Another reaction I saw, one of the viewers said that the rain meant that the killer was still at large. I have no idea what the correlation of that was or how she even picked up on it but when I paid attention again, I realized that the rain had stopped when John Doe turned himself in. Then I started noticing the similar theme and use of rain in other movies

Glad you picked up on everything so quickly, you were paying close attention. Se7en is a rough ride that elevated horror forever. I especially appreciated how the movie is so noisy, gritty, and rainy - until John Doe appears later in the film. You can see the rain stopping as his cab pulls up to the police station before he surrenders himself. Anyways, appreciated your perspectives and looking forward to the next one V!

I literally just got my hair cut at the barber shop they used for the BDSM leather store. 5th and Spring, DTLA, Bolt Barbers. So this is a timely upload from Vickie!

WHAT'S IN THE BOX!

By the way, the rain and the urban aesthetic is Seattle. Fincher chose the city for both this and Fight Club specifically for the gray, dreary, lachrymose feel of the city. edit: Also, I love that some sort of intra-cervical mousetrap device is far more wholesome than the actual leather...'device' used for the Lust murder.

The most frigthening thing about this film is just how right the killer is about the world we live in. His actions are wrong but his outlook is spot on.

When my future wife and I saw this in the theater, most of the audience stayed seated and you could have heard a pin drop. Everyone was stunned. This film certainly makes you think, not that it's a good thing all the time. It's also a master class if you want to write a script that builds tension.

The City is one of the best settings in film, in my opinion. They literally would delay filming until the weather was shitty so they could get the right vibe.

When David Fincher wants to haunts you he HAUNTS you.

I was a theatre manager when this came out. We would screen the prints the night before opening to make sure everything is okay. I was talking with the projectionists and one of them said they heard there's a shocker of an ending. We started to joke around speculating who the killer was. Pitt. Freeman. I said, "I know who it is! It's Keyser Soze." The Usual Suspects opened maybe a month earlier. The screening was open to employees. When Spacey showed up, those of us who were in that conversation laughed-out-loud and pointed at the screen. I remember saying "It's Keyser Soze!"

I always think of the MTV skit with William Shatner "what's in the Box??!!"

IN BOTH "THE USUAL SUSPECTS"AND "SE7EN" KEVIN SPACEY NAILED IT AND BOTH MOVIESWERE RELEASED IN SAME YEAR🤯

The film looks absolutely incredible. They really captured lighting in a bottle with the cinematography in way lots of films just don't have it these days.

Oh yes, the old mousetrap on the dingdong

Spacey plays creeps pretty perfectly, since that is close to his real personality.

Fantastic movie I remember seeing it with my Grandmother and Mother of all people . Thought we were seeing some lame detective movie … the opening credits kicked in and I knew this was something special ..

My buddies and I shave our chests together every Tuesday. It's totally normal.

This was definitely a suspenseful movie but thanks for watching it Vicky.🙋📺

I love this movie, but then I'm drawn to the darker themes. I love a bleak ending, and this is one of the best ever, and fantastic performances throughout. It was between this and Kalifornia (1993) that I was sold on the idea that Brad Pitt was more than just a pretty face. Then 12 Monkeys really just sealed it (I believe that came out a little after Se7en).

The jump from hancock to seven is crazy

Going from The Karate Kid to Se7en is one hell of a swing...no pun intended

Not such a fun fact: The strings Somerset pulls to get info on the murderer - the ones that he says aren't exactly legal to pull.... After the US PATRIOT Act was passed in the riptide of post-9/11 paranoia, that stuff is niiiiiice and legal now for law enforcement.

The late '90s manga/animes that shared similar themes of dystopia, nihilism, dark urban environmenets, etc., are some of my favorite media.

♪But there's no happy endings, Not here and not now ♪This tale is all sorrows and woes ♪You might dream that justice and peace win the day ♪But that's not how the story goes

Apart from the ending, it also features one of the most haunting title sequences ever

“It looks exactly the same if you turned it upside down” that’s what I’ve been saying! 🤣😂

interstingly he'd never get off pleading insanity. His entire speech in the car shows he satisfies the legal standard for sanity which is not being a killer but understanding "right from wrong." His speach on morality is literally about knowing right from wrong, punishing sinners.

My favorite character in this movie is "California", the sniper in the helicopter, with the all-time great line "Somebody.... call somebody...". Played by Scrubs surgeon and Office Space consultant John McGinley.

Dark, moody, and atmospheric are David Fincher's bread and butter.

The rain is because this is a style called "film noir". Mostly used in the 30's and 40's. Blade Runner is another modern film to use the this visual style

Kevin Spacey was the it guy in the 90s. He did this and Usual Suspects, same year! This director is just a handful of directors that just see movies differently!

In the 90s, the “flagged book” element was interpreted as mostly a dystopian hyperbole that fit into the noir setting. Now, it’s positively quaint.

Seven, Usual Suspects, Resevoir Dogs, L.A Confidential . . . The 90s had some fucking fire movies 💪😎💪

This is actually a movie about hope. Somerset was living in total apathy. The city has beaten him. Where is he going ? "Far from here." But then comes Mills and his lovely wife whom upset his equilibrium completely. When Mills tells Somerset "I will not say that" about Somerset's defeatism, that night he throws his metronome to the floor. His apathy has been completely shaken apart. Unfortunately the city destroys both Mills and Tracy (Mills would not serve time as he was manipulated beyond rational control). But Somerset has been redeemed. Where will he be ? "I'll be around."

if you've never seen it i would suggest watching "The Mothman Prophecies" it's a very good thriller that is based on true events!

This role is as close as Kevin Spacey gets to how he is in real life.

The only on-screen killing in the movie is when Mills shoots John Doe, and yet this film feels like one of the most gory films ever.

well since we're here, we might aswell ask for Memento

There's a fan theory about this movie that the unnamed (dark grimey, corrupt, crime-ridden) city is, in fact, Gotham city. Gotham city before Batman came entered the fray. There's even a theory that Pitt's character went insane (after that one bad day) and became the Joker.

Matt Reeves used this and the director's other film Zodiac as inspiration when he filmed The Batman

6:07 this is Gotham when Batman & Joker aren’t around

Se7en and 8mm are my favorite thrillers at the time they came out, with Kiss the Girls coming in 3rd.

Yeah you're spot on about the rain. Rainy weather and moody scenes are classic noir tropes. Blade Runner is another good example of that

"This is one of the most disturbing films you've ever seen"... you sweet, summer children...