SE7EN

Memory Served: Sometime in 1995, Greenbelt Theater, Makati City

The word September is derived from the Latin septem, which means "seven," because the month used to be the seventh of the ancient ten-month Roman calendar. A must for liwaliw Memories to include the film Seven (or as styled in print and onscreen SE7EN), the 1995 neo-noir opus by David Fincher, starred by Hollywood heavyweights Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kevin Spacey. This was the Best Movie pick of the 1996 MTV Movie Awards.

I have a good/bad memory of this film: good for the experience of seeing one of the top-grossers of the year after saving my college allowance to afford the movie ticket, and bad, well, the story and the visuals were traumatizing. I've included here the film's opening sequence, which itself was critically praised and allegedly started (or revived) the trend in distinct production efforts for the opening and/or closing sequences in contemporary film.


[This post is antedated: 20181007]