Seven

Gluttony, greed, sloth, lust, pride, envy, wrath. A serial killer on a warped moral mission who turns his victims' "sins" into the means of their murder. The movie Seven is analyzed here covering topics such as sin, story, structure, seriality, sound, sight and salvation.

Richard Dyer is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of many books and articles on the cinema, among which are Stars (new edition, 1998) and a volume on Brief Encounter in the BFI Film Classics series (1993).