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Se7en (1995)

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• Revealing mistakes: The gluttony victim can be seen breathing, despite being dead.
  
  
• Continuity: Mills gets out of a bed with only a quilted mattress cover. He puts on his shirt and tie and walks back to the bed which now has a sheet on it.
  
  
• Continuity: Detective Mills' tucked-in tie when he is looking at the portrait in the greed victim's office.
  
  

• Continuity: The amount of the name that is left on the door when the janitor is scraping it off.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Uneven dispersal of rainfall on the windows of the car.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: John Doe kills his victims because they have committed one of the seven deadly sins, but he tells Mills that they were innocent. He was being ironic.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: At the end of the scene where both witnesses of the "Lust" crime scene are interrogated, there is a slow track from one interrogation room to the other. In the tracking shot, you can see the camera dolly reflection at the bottom of the two-way mirror.
  
  
• Continuity: On the way to finding the final two victims, the overhead shots show them to be driving in the desert, while shots from inside the car show grey and green flora outside the windows.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Doe hits Mills on the top of the head, then leaves him behind, bleeding. If you look carefully, you can see a tube running on top of Mills' head, presumably carrying the fake blood to his forehead.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: While it is raining on the car, the people on the street are not using umbrellas or other devices to shield themselves from rain.
  
  
• Continuity: The phone on Detective Mills' desk changes several times when he enters his new office.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The movie is set in no particular large city, so the nearby desert is not a geographical error.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Just before the greed scene, several newspaper headlines state that Defense Attorney Eli Gould had been murdered. Hence, Mills and Somerset refer to him as "the biggest defense lawyer in town." (Casual viewers might have misread the headlines.)
  
  
• Continuity: The layout of John Doe's apartment conflicts with the hallway of the building. In the outside hallway, there is a window looking onto the building next door. Inside the apartment, there are rooms where the window would be.
  
  
• Continuity: On the drive back from the Gluttony victim, the car has two different kinds of windshield wiper: one that goes side to side, and one that goes up and down.
  
  
• Continuity: When Somerset is in the taxi on the way to the Library he is wearing a striped shirt under his overcoat. When he gets to the library and is chatting with the security guards he is wearing just a solid white shirt.
  
  
• Continuity: The level of the wine glasses when Somerset is over for dinner changes. When the camera is on the Mills, Mrs. Mills glass is higher than Somerset's glass. When the camera is on Somerset, the levels are both lower and equal.
  
  
• Continuity: The direction of the light varies between shots during the final scene.
  
  
• Continuity: When Somerset is in the library making copies, a plan of Dante's Purgatory comes out of the copy machine, but the label at the bottom of the page identifies it as Dante's Inferno.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: There are at least 3 copies of Dante's Divine Comedy which Somerset places on the table. The red-bound copy which is the focus of an earlier shot is seen underneath a copy of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Beneath the red one is a larger printing of the book with a dust-jacket, and at the top of the other pile is a smaller, blue-covered version of the book.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mills orders Jon Doe to the ground in the police station, on the stairs behind two police officers are visible. Then there is a cut to a shot from the stairs looking down, and no police officers can be seen. Cut again and they reappear.
  
  
• Continuity: When Somerset is in the greed victim's office dusting the wall for prints behind the painting, he does so with his left hand. However, the close-up shot of the hand doing the dusting is clearly a right hand.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the police are inspecting the body of the "lust" victim, you can see her blinking at the beginning of the scene.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Freeze-framing the film on the legible portions of John Doe's hand-written journal (while Somerset is turning pages) reveals one page identical to the preceding one.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Somerset returns to the Gluttony crime scene, he uses his pocket-knife to cut the police tape which is securing the door. This tape is on the inside of the door, which is pointless (as it is supposed to be seen by people, to warn them away from the crime scene) and impossible, unless the police taped up the door and then climbed out of the windows.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene taking place in the car heading out to find the final two victims, the grating in the vehicle changes. It is more curvy when the camera is on John Doe, while it is very straight when the camera is looking at Mills from John Doe's point of view. It also disappears occasionally, such as then the camera is on Somerset or when it is on Mills, but not from John Doe's point of view.
  
  
• Continuity: John Doe's package, delivered by "Crosstown Express", has UPS International shipping papers attached to it.
  
  

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