November 22nd is Turkey Day (Thanksgiving) here in the US, but the SAC Movie continues nonetheless with the final movie in David Fincher month. Zodiac is another Fincher movie about a serial killer, but this time Fincher focuses much less on the killing and much more on the detective story and mystery surrounding the [...]
November 22, 2007
Categories: movies . Tags: crime, mystery, San Francisco, true story . Author: setipensteven . Comments: 1 Comment
Fight Club is one of those films that people either remember forever or forget about in all of their confusion as to what was actually taking place. It’s a film that has been criticized by many and praised by many more. Some see it promoting violence. Some see it misunderstood. Some [...]
November 9, 2007
Categories: movies . Tags: allegory, consumerism, disillusionment, identity, masculinity, the working class, violence, white-collar workers . Author: setipensteven . Comments: 1 Comment
One of the all-time great thrillers and crime films, Se7en (or “Seven”) is the film that elevated David Fincher to great director status. It also gave its stars, Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, newfound popularity. In the film, Pitt plays a new detective in a big American city where Freeman has been working [...]
November 6, 2007
Categories: movies . Tags: crime, metaphor, mystery, religion, the classics, thriller, twist ending, violence . Author: setipensteven . Comments: 7 Comments
