Se7en Opening sequence

The first shot in the opening sequnece shows the pages being turned on an unidentified book, we can see the book has been well used as it has come away from its bindings. The hands of the person turning the pages are out of focus and his face is out of shot which adds a sense of enigma to the character. Many disturbing images are used throughout the opening cretis such as the image of an old man's broken hands on a piece of paper. The opening then shows someone carefully slicing of their fingerprints with a razor blade. This shows the specatar that the mysterious character could be covering up his identity which adds to the sense of enigma of the character. There is no reason why a person would need to cut of their fingerprints unless they were about to take part in a well organised, pre-meditated crime. Throughout the rest of the opening sequence we can see that the character has wrapped bandages arount his fingertips, this shows the spectator the extent of the injuries he has inflicted upon himself. a blast of red is shown later on in the opening sequence which could the nature of the crime the character is about to commit. throughout the opeining credits the charcater is collecting articles, images and film cells which all have religious context. The shots in the opening all appear to the spectator to be parts of the mysterious characters plan for his future crime. Towards the end of the opening sequence we see the character cut out the word god from a dollar bill, this gives the spectator the impression that it could be used later on in the film to write an anonymous letter, it also links to the religious context of the film. At the end of the opening sequence the singer in the backgroung music sings "gonna bring me closer to god" which show that the character believes that what he is about to do will brng him closer to god.