Episode 81. You Bring Me Closer to God: Se7en (1995)

Faculty of Horror

Andrea Subissati and Alexandra West

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🗓️ 24 February 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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From the Gothic urban landscape, to narrative switch-a-roos, to entitled male rage, David Fincher’s Se7en is much more than a morality-wielding killer with a penchant for… unboxings. In this episode, Andrea and Alex delve into the movie’s complicated moral codes, the history of detective fiction and the dangers of having a God-complex. The Fack […]

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0:00.0	The Oh, Oh, Hi everyone and welcome back to the Faculty of Horror
0:56.0	Podcasting from the Horror Halls of Academia. I'm Alex West with Andrea
1:00.1	Subissati and we are back.
1:02.5	It is 2020.
1:04.0	We did our recap of the last decade, last episode.
1:07.8	And now we are here to talk about a film from the 90s.
1:10.9	Yeah.
1:11.9	Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well happy women in horror month happy
1:15.0	black history month. We're talking about a film that has almost nothing to do with
1:18.6	either of those things. But no regrets. I've been meeting to talk about it.
1:24.0	I've been meaning to rewatch it.
1:26.0	I really enjoy this film.
1:27.0	Yeah, and I mean we picked seven as we alluded to in our last episode because we are entering our seventh year as a
1:33.8	podcast so isn't that kind of fun and this is a film I've always had in my
1:39.2	brain as it's a good movie it's a good movie it's a good movie with some interesting stuff in it and that's cool and I haven't
1:48.4	gone back to it in a few years and watching it this time is the most I've ever enjoyed this film.
1:54.0	And maybe it's because I put on my like analytical hat,
1:58.0	the literal hat I wear when I watch these films,
2:00.0	but I was like, oh shit, there is so much beyond it because I think once you get past the
2:06.4	conceit, the like top line conceit of what this film is about, it actually has so much to say
2:11.8	about humanity, about narrative about stylistic choices and it really like I've been really
2:18.8	Ruminating on this film all week, so it's I'm very excited to dig into it in a really significant way.
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