Gift for Dogstar (Se7en)

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Title of vid: Archetypal Sins
Recipient: Dogstar
Vidder: echan
Fandom: Se7en
Music: "A Better Place" by VAST
Summary: Two detectives are coerced into participating in a practical demonstration of the seven deadly sins.
Content notes: All the same as the film - blood, gore, implied violence & rape, gunshot
Signed length: 02:15

Link to signed vid post.

Comments

[From: leanwellback]

Oh, I love this, thank you so much! It's so bleak and beautiful and just wonderful. Thank you for making this, anon ♥!

-Dogstar

[From: echan]

*happy sigh* I'm so glad you love it, and the music too. (I wasn't spying on you (much)! I was just fishing for feedback, heh.)

[From: missbreese]

Hardcore movie, hardcore vid. I liked going through the sins and how you showcased them. I agree with leanwellback; very bleak and very beautiful.

[From: echan]

I'm so happy you liked my "picture book of sin". I really enjoyed making it, especially reframing the last two sins to better match the previous five.

[From: gorgeousnerd]

Wow, that song choice with that vid. I really felt this one. Great job!

[From: echan]

Loved this comment, thank you so much!

[From: aris_tgd]

Oh, well done, vidder. Painful in a good way. Beautifully cut together.

[From: echan]

Thank you! That's totally what I was going for, the good pain.

[From: lady_krysis]

Wow. This was just.

It was perfect.

[From: echan]

*bows* :D

[From: china_shop]

Ewwww, so creepy! (I haven't seen the source.) This is gripping and brilliant and ewwwww!

[From: echan]

Yay, thanks a lot!

[From: colls]

so creepy

and I mean that in a good way

[From: echan]

Woot, thanks!

[From: vesperregina]

Others have said it's bleak and beautiful, which I can agree with, but I think this vid's greatest strength is in how you distilled the plot. That takes, in my experience, a great familiarity with the source. You did a marvelous job on this. It's gorgeous, even in all its goriness.

[From: echan]

Oh thank you, thank you, such glowing praise. I sometimes worry my primary vidding skill/technique of "plot, abridged!" is a weakness, a crutch, but you've reminded me that it's a valuable skill.

[From: franzeska]

Yikes! Great vid (that shows exactly why I never watched the movie).

[From: echan]

Heh, I'm kinda sorry, but kinda not, because I love the gore of the film. I'm happy you watched the vid, though!

If I may -- I'm curious what was different about the vid that made you like it, where you won't watch the film that expands on it? Was it just the length, or was there anything I did that made it more palatable for you?

[From: franzeska]

It's not the gore; it's the ending. I don't care in a vid, but in a movie, I like a happier ending.

[From: echan]

Ah, okay. Thanks for telling me.

[From: laurashapiro]

So that's what the movie is about! I've always wondered, and now I have it, clear as day.

This is beautifully constructed.

[From: echan]

Heh, there's a bit more to it than this, some side scenes with color and some additional twists, but this is the bare bones, just John Doe's scheme. I'm glad it was clear for you; happy to hear I was successful.

[From: laurashapiro]

Very much so! I really enjoyed it.