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Finch Club: Se7en

This time on Finch Club, we’re taking on one of David Fincher’s enduring classics, the serial killer thriller Se7en. A far more effective wallow is despair than his previous film, it turns out that Se7en really holds up. We’re talking about the oppressive any-city it takes place in, the eternal battle between optimism and apathy, all the cues The Dark Knight took from this, consider the Spacey effect on the film’s ending, and ask the question, is this a Horror film? Let me tell you folks, Schwartz is on fire in this one.

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Se7en

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