IamJacksUserID wrote:
I'm curious what your "fridge logic" moment was in SE7EN
Well, here's what it comes down to in a nutshell (without really revealing too much.)
For the first 2/3rds of the film, we appear to be watching the Magnum Opus of an incredibly meticulous, always-one-step-ahead psychopath. It's brilliant, and has been planned for an extremely long time in precise detail.
Then, once the third act twist comes into play, we find that indeed his true plan is the corruption of the Up-And-Coming Young Detective ... as if his entire plan all along was to push this one man over a line, and that everything (including the killer's capture, and the Detectives "brilliant revelations" that led them up to it) is indeed part of his grand purpose.
So, this really gave me pause. He had started this plan over a year ago ... had he been targeting this kid all along? Was his "plan" to string it along till he found just the right person to subject to his master-stroke?
Was his plan to deliberately "wing it" after a certain point? Because it seems like he's supposedly doing both at once, and the dialog never really seems to want to lead one way or another. In the end, I feel like the first 80 minutes sold me on a brilliant Machiavellian mastermind, and the last 20 minutes tried to sell me on with nigh-unbelievable precognitive abilities or insanely blind luck.
I spun this to Joe, and he thinks I'm nitpicking, so I admit it's probably a stupid fixation. But I got to the end and I just didn't buy it completely, so at least on some level it fell short for me.
Again, the film is absolutely worthwhile without question, the cast is top-notch, and it's very well constructed. My reactions to the narrative just seem more a gut reaction than anything.
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