Of all the victims of David Fincher's "seven", it is the lust that makes me the most shake. We don't see much of the dead, and it makes it even worse. Instead, Fincher allows our imagination to do all the work, later revealing a polaroid of the usual murder weapons and to undergo us with the brothel's brothel testimony, who was forced to participate in a rifle. It was the scene I was thinking about in the later years when I first watched Saw in 2004. For me, the combination of Baroque cruelty and the extreme sexual aspect provides through a line of Serial killers' films since the 1990s like "Silence of Lambs" For the low budget of the porn-down budget of the torture, the Jameseims Van, is often credited with start-and Fincher is not satisfied with that association.

"It was offensive to me at a certain level that when" Videos "and those other films came out, people said," Well, torture porn really started with "Seven", he told. Playboy In 2014, adding "f *** you" for good measure. Noting that the film is "crazy" at the goal, he further noted that he and writer Andrew Kevin Walker were "extremely aware of the fact that we are talking about torture, but we never showed it".

The "saw" himself is quite mild compared to what came after, but there is little doubt that he paved the way for many nibbles and more nihilist horror films, leading David Edelstein to Coin the term "torture porn" in 2006. Quoting Greg McLean's Wolf Creek, "Refuses to the Devil of Rob Zombie", And "Eli Roth's hostel" (all released in 2005), he compared them more to the heinous "70s exploitation stains" from the 80's and "90s" films for killers.

"Saw" has a premise that can appear directly from Done Doe's mind (Kevin Spacey) in "Seven". The rumored oncologist Lawrence Gordon (Carrie Elves) and the photographer of Vatrell Adam (the film's writer Lee Wanel) woke up to find themselves in a cleaning bathroom. Between them is a carcass holding a gun and a strip recording. They also find strips in pockets. Taking the record -breaker, Lawrence's footage instructs him to kill Adam by 6pm or his wife and daughter will die. They also believe that two hustlebars are not capable of reducing their limitations, leading to Lawrence to conclude that they should cut their feet instead. He also doubts that this is the work of the killer with a jigsaw puzzle, which he had previously tried to shape for several horrible deaths.

"Seven" was clearly the main inspiration for the film's lumps, a serial killer with a message with a message and an unexpected turnaround. The format is slightly mixed; While breastfeeding the seven deadly sins for a moral sermon on modern society, the goal of the puzzle is poetry. Obviously, he aims to teach his victims to appreciate life by forcing them to make agonizing choices to survive.

"Saw" is an effective horror triller with an intriguing mystery, but its sequels bent heavier in Deathtrap's point of view. That's why the franchise gets into torture porn - it has become less for his characters and more for Gore. The difference is subtle but important; While Saw has its share of heinous deaths, they are in the service of a story. In later installments and in torture porn in general, viewers are encouraged to get down from violence itself. And that's why David Fincher is angry at the association - "Seven" there was restraint and forensic to keep the cheap footage.

It is easy to see why David Fincher would be a "seven" protector. The film allowed him to prove himself a director after Alien 3's troubled production, and he grabbed the chance with both hands. Not only is it an extraordinarily made horror triller with shooting performance and an unforgettable twist, it is also a fantastic piece of storytelling. It is a movie that I go back to every few years and I still take it, though I know how to play.

But as I get the point of Fincher, I can't feel that he is too sensitive. No work of art is completely original and will say what your work can inspire. Not like "Seven" did not affect previous films. The film cannot exist even if the "silence of the lambs" was not such a huge critical and commercial success, bringing into the serial killer of the 90s on the road.

Fincher himself cited "Psycho" and William Friedkin as the influence of "Seven", and the procedural element of the film can be followed by the road to "M." at Fritz Lang Lang's classic of 1931 paved the way for every thriller for serial killersThe master director was also a major proponent of German expressionism. The second influence on "Seven" is a huge reason why the film dates better than other films in the 1990s, because Noir never age.

After all, "Seven" May opened the door to "saw" and his imitators, but Fincher should not worry about it. Three decades after shocking the audience, "Seven" is still classic. People will still talk about it for another 30 years when torture porn has become a macaber footnote in cinema history.