Cultural Nihilism (Fincher 1)
Added 2021-12-19 21:52:12 +0000 UTCWe begin our series on David Fincher, starting with Alien 3 and Seven. We talk about how cosmic and cultural forms of nihilism are deployed by the elites to demolish existing value systems and how Fincher uses the problem of evil to engage in a dark form of religious engineering.
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The head-in-a-hatbox finale of 'Se7en' is probably a nod to 'Night must Fall', a 1930s' serial killer film remade in 1964 by Karel Reisz with Albert Finney. The latter is fairly terrible for about 25 minutes but suddenly becomes rather good (on an entertainment level) when they suddenly seemed to click with the material. The last third is full of one-eye and checkerboard symbolism. The film happened to come out just before one of Britain's most infamous crime cases, the Moors Murders, which I don't think was a coincidence. Karel Reisz made some interesting films like 'Who'll stop the Rain?'. His background repays some investigation....
Simon
2024-10-14 15:37:04 +0000 UTC
