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Can you look at these pictures of Detective Somerset (Morgan Freeman) walking around the library in Seven without automatically hearing Bach's "Air Suite No. 3" in your head? I sure as heck can't.
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This library, along with David & Tracy's apartment, seem to be the only place we ever really see Somerset's shoulders relax - both spaces are relatively womb-like; warm and enclosed. Safe from the outside horrors.
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They also both have enclosures within enclosures that contain little knots of protection - the only other people in the library are a cluster of security guards perched above, playing cards...
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... while David & Tracy have that glass room where they keep their dogs locked up. That touch always struck me as strange (I suppose theres's some Cerberus in it) but putting it alongside this scene in the library I feel like I'm making some sense of it...
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... Seven is all about the unpeeling onion, boxes inside boxes and layers under layers - the 7 deadly sins & the 9 circles of hell...
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A more claustrophobic movie you'd be hard-pressed to find -- even the sequence at the end in the wide open fields is sliced to ribbons by those threatening power-lines, and ends up closing in, down down down, to the small square walls of a single cardboard container.
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But here under the hum of electric lamps and Bach
some knowledge, some solace, at least.
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Seven came out 20 years ago today!
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