The story of a street nobody who dreams of becoming a somebody heavily refelects on the subjects of isolationism and how lonliness can drastically affect a persons character and sometimes even drive them to make extreme life changing decisions for better or for worse.
This is a subject that we'd like to portray but in a more modern background in a media and digital age. Hopefully displaying how little human society has advnaced in terms of social issues inbstead of trying to solve them they have only exassibated the problem by bombarding an individual with media advetisements and productions that can sometimes make a person believe thats all there is in life causing their own social interactions to dwindle. Usually this can go on for years but they always eventually realise what they have done which can lead them to make a drastic decision which is something I want to portray in this project by taking the idea of extreme lonliness and isolation and placing it in the modern world and show how a character can react to such a situation. This can also be seen as an educational (shock treatment) film bring to lihgt a problem that people seem happy to ignoresince with the issue being shown as real and still a problem to this day.
In terms of atmosphere and effect Se7en seems to show how important these can be in a psychological film, they can set the mood for the audience, create tension and tell an otherwise complex story in a simple way the audience can understand and even be entertained by.
What I want to take from thsi is how the director set up certain situations and how the characters react to them through; lighting, movements, sound effects and dialogue. Beinf a film lacking in much action that means it must be drtiven along on its atmosphere since the dialogue is short and often quite normal since the characters talk about regular things that could happen to anyone (this is outside of the actual murder investigation oiffcourse). Kevin Spacey's protrayel of a disturbed but somewhat polite serial killer will also help in creating the main protagonists personality since we want him to appear mentally unusual but on the outside appear normal if alittle reserved.
Fight Club - David Fincher
Fight Club is another film tht realise heavily on atmosphere and dialogue in order to sell it since (depsite the films title) there aren't many thriller or action based scenes featured which means it had to rely on other methods to sell the film.
This film introduced the idea of "voice-overs" since this is a sure way to represent a character as being slightly unusual since he chooses to speak in his head instead of with his voice which mean that he says something but the people around him don't know what he's saying (or rather what he's thinking). Also the idea of a plot twist which has been happoening since the beginning also inspired me to try and intergrate something similiar in thsi project, to have the story run from start to finish with a plot twist occuring throughout but only becoming visiable to the audience at the end.
Not only that but this film introduces the idea of two realities crossing together to effect the characters i.e. Tyler is an imagination created by the main character but dispite this he still drives the plot and effects both the protagonist and the viewer which at first isn't clear until the end when it appears as though Tyler was acting through the protagonist and that it was really him all along affecting everyone. While this can be complicated I'd still like to put something similiar into the film of something fictional or supernatural coming across and affecting the characters and plot in a way that can confuse and disorientate but ultimatley becomes clear at the end.
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