SE7EN TEXTUAL ANALYSIS

SE7EN TEXTUAL ANALYSIS

At the beginning of this scene it shows a man who is a detective, Detective Sommerset. He is in his house where he lives alone. This is not confirmed to begin with however but it is illustrated when we see what is in his house and what isn’t. An example of this is that there are no photos of family or relatives which give the idea that he lives alone. When he sleeps he has a metronome which is quite old fashioned which could reflect on his personality and life style. He has several items laid out in a specific order on his side in his house for when he gets up in the morning. This shows that he likes to be organised and infers that he could have been in the army at some stage in his life, and that what he learnt in the army and the way he had to live has been installed into his everyday life.

 

Detective Sommerset as a partner that he works with called Mills. These two characters are very different. Sommerset is an older man dressed in smarter clothes. He approaches things in different ways to Mills. Mills is a younger man that wears more casual clothes and can be seen as looking too casual and scruffy.