SE7EN: 4K UHD Blu-ray (New Line Cinema, 1995) Warner Home Video
Ernest Hemingway once declared the world a beautiful place worth fighting for…only the latter half, to be believed by one of our central protagonists in the bone-chilling epilogue to David Fincher’s macabre masterpiece of crime/fiction, Se7en (1995). If Se7en plays with more apocalyptic verve today, it is only because life in America, and, the world at large, have become far more penetratingly bleak since the picture’s premiere; a sad indictment on the clairvoyance of Fincher, as a popcorn mandarin, whose crystal ball had already corroded with a dystopian view of a pop culture gone utterly mad. The initial ‘test audience’ pre-screening of Se7en was not exactly what either Fincher or New Line Cinema – the studio footing the bills – expected, with one woman in the audience declaring “the people who made this ought to be shot”. Aside: today, someone might have very well taken her up on that snap assessment. But Se7en soon garnered the popular press of reigning critics, most prai...
