A film that kept audiences guessing right until the end – and certainly proved to be one of the most shocking endings of all time was David Fincher’s SEVEN (or SE7EN as it is on screen at the outset).
Brad Pitt is newly arrived in the (seemingly unnamed) city Detective David Mills who is given the desk of retiring Detective William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) who is leaving the force disillusioned.
Somerset’s final case involves a dead body that appears to have eaten himself to death. Sure enough, clues lead to the revelation that the killer has written GLUTTONY behind a fridge. Soon enough, other murders and writing based on the Seven Deadly Sins begin to appear with all amount of clues to throw the pair as they delve deeper.
Somerset is invited to Mills’ house for a sit-down dinner where he meets Tracy (Gwyneth Paltrow) and gets to know them both better. The case, however, is less than pleasant and begins to get all the more complicated….
Cleverly written by Andrew Kevin Walker, who allegedly wrote the screenplay based on a seemingly-miserable time he had in New York city, the film almost had a different ending to the one that was in the final cut of the film by Fincher. It might have been a bit more commercial, but one suspects the film would not have been as much of a 1990s masterpiece as it turned out to be.