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Odd Thomas

You've seen Seven, you've seen Fight Club, you've seen Zodiac... now it's time for Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo! Every bit as memorable.

Amelie W

Between Se7en and Fight Club and The Matrix, 1990s Hollywood sure loved this specific big nameless city full of rain and grime. And nameless, fingerprint-less characters. I don't think it means anything, except that now they've almost stopped making this sort of big budget, almost-high-concept movies. To be a public defender, the kind of lawyer where you have to advocate for criminals who are obviously guilty and broke, I think you have to believe in the rule of law. You have to be able to present a case for the defense, as opposed to just giving up to the prosecution, without pretending like the client is innocent; but just remembering they are a human being who is entitled to a defense. It doesn't matter if you hate them and want them punished as long as you want to uphold their civil rights more, and I think to be any kind of good lawyer you have to want that.

pinkdino99

Se7en is actually a film about hope. We are introduced to Somerset, a very fastidious, academic but beat down detective on his last week of service. Somerset is the very face of apathy, being on the front line facing off against the city’s constant angry brutality throughout his daily working life. The very city pulses with malevolent angst of which Somerset can only escape into sleep with the aid of the calming tick-tick-tick of a metronome each night. In the taxi he is asked where he is headed to which he replies "far, far from here." The first murder scene is discovered, and thrown into the mix is the young transferred detective, the “hotshot” Mills. Mills couldn’t be more different from Somerset, with his dishevelled appearance, foul mouth, he wears his heart on his sleeve and has a cocky, devil may care attitude. Somerset immediately takes Mills to task, in what he believes is a service to try and insulate Mills from the horror that his city will undoubtedly dump on him. To whit Mills objects passionately to ; Mills - The point is that you're not quitting because you believe these things you say. You want to believe them because you're quitting. And you want me to agree with you and say "You're right, it's all f*d up. It's a mess. We should all go live in a log cabin." But I won't. I won't say that. I don't agree with you. I do not. I can't. Mills’ passion, his youthful optimistic and desperate hope tears through Somerset’s apathy like a wrecking ball. The night of this conversation with Mills, Somerset then smashes his metronome against the wall in righteous rage. He is awoken, angry, energised and engaged back fully with his world. And its not just Mills, it’s Somerset’s personal engagement through the film with Mills’ lovely wife Tracy. You can see as Somerset gets charmingly engaged into the young couple’s lives that he is slightly jealous of their youth, their promise, and he is absolutely terrified of what his city is going to do these “kids”. And it turns out that Somerset was right. The city eats them both up whole, the “every-man” killer John Doe choosing Mills and his wife as his sixth and seventh victims. But Somerset has been redeemed, re-awoken. He is asked where he’ll be ? “I’ll be around.”

Joe D. MacGuffinstuff

I loved R Lee Ermey as the captain in this, he's the Drill Instructor from Full Metal Jacket who was an actual DI in the Marine Corps. He's also entertaining in The Frighteners (Peter Jackson, great movie for spooky season) Saving Silverman (just a fun movie. I recommend all of them, not sure if you guys have seen FMJ yet.

Chris Davies

Se7en made quite an impact on me, I haven't seen it since it came out but I still vividly remember the sloth scene and the ending. The Frighteners is a good movie

Daryl

Another great reaction, just finished watching. I feel like I was just as speechless as you guys when I first watched it. And it was like 10 years ago. I was blown away like “how did this go under my radar, how did I miss this?” It’s amazing that it’s from 1995, it really holds well. But at the same time with being speechless, I was mesmerized of the world David Fincher created, an unknown city where it’s always raining, dark and very gritty. I watched this movie a bunch of times now, up until now I didn’t realize Howard Shore wrote the score for the film. I was mind blown when you brought it up in the beginning credits. Haha anyway, awesome reaction. Loving your Patreon so far!!!

Studio KUJIRA

I remember I paid a kid in 7th grade to shoplift this VHS for me lol

Ricardo Alanis

Awesome reaction. Hard to find people who go into this blind right until the end. One of the most impactful movies I’ve seen in terms of storytelling. One quick correction: you do see Tracy Saturday night when David gets into bed with her and says he loves her before the Pride scene. One addition that always gets lost in the audio unless you have subtitles: Somerset tells Mills at the end “If you murder a suspect, David, it’s death row all the way and you know it…” meaning that David does die at the end too.