Se7en Location and Setting

Se7en Scenes

Scene 1: US- Urban City

Location: American city, New York City(?)

• Police sirens- Bad area with high crime rate
• Busy people- suggesting it is a city
• Car traffic noises
• Bad weather- Rain, musty, dirty, dank
• Polluted- buildings look dim
• Dead body being wheeled out
• Aggressive place: Mills gets bumped into- no one flinches/apoligizes

Time period: Late 90s

What world: Real world- Verisimilitude

Scene 2: Somerset's Flat

• Classy- antique furniture, neat and organized
• Lives alone- no family
• Knife for protection: dangerous place
• Diegetic sound 
• Hear sirens and traffic outside: City interrupting Somerset's personal space
• Loud noises outside contradricts the stillness/isolation inside.