Se7en (Fincher, 1995, US)
These are the first four shots of the opening sequence. They consist of extreme close ups of items that could be seen as creep or deadly. The use of editing is montage as it jumps from one shot to another without a fade in or transition. The titles look like they are literally scratched into the film, showing that this film will be violent. It could also be psychological as the stereotypes of people with schizophrenia carve things into walls or their own body.
The title 'Se7en' appears in a very interesting way. It looks like an old fashioned film reel is rolling and displaying the titles, we can see scratches (linking with the earlier images), it also jumps from corner to corner of the screen - appearing in different sizes, fonts and colours. This could represent that the thoughts inside the main character head are all scrambled and they are psychologically disturbed. The final 'Se7en' that appears link us into another shot of the film.
In the next few shots the editing has been used to a high standard. Subliminal messages appear for a fraction of a second every so often, these messages can be words or images of dead/injured people, this shows that the killer does in fact have a psychological problem. The character goes over and over memories or what he wants to do to someone in his head constantly, meaning this opening sequence is in the perspective of the killer.
The images in this opening sequence are violent, gritty and can be scary, instantly making the audience tense and leaving them to expect that something will happen in the near future. The musical score literally sounds like it has been scratched on the disk, leaving this horrid screeching noise that sometimes appears, this again links with the mental issues that this killer may have. The image of the razor blade and scissors also feed this portrayal of the character by showing that they may have a fascination of knives.
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