Se7en Opening Sequence Review

The follow is a step by step review of the opening to the movie 'Se7en'. I watched the opening and chose these 8 stills to talk about.
You can find a video for the opening sequences here.

1. This is the establishing shot to the opening to the sequence, it doesn't give much away although it does almost set the mood for the rest of the sequences. This idea comes from the music and the lighting. the music seems very sketchy and distorted, with a weirdly manipulated beat, which connotes bad things.
2. A These gnarled and chard hands draw the audience in, as they want to know who, what and why there are these pictures. This is reinforced with the camera angle as it makes it out as though someone is standing over looking down, also the flickering shadow that is moving around gives an eerie mysterious feel.
3. This kind of shot tells the audience that there is going to be some kind of mentally strange character in the film. There is good use of Mise-en-Scene and camera here with the extreme close-up increasing the intensity of the grimy hands cutting the skin off their fingers with a razor blade.
4. Here we see the movie title for the first time, along with it we see a hand with several band-aids collecting an old tattered book. I feel this is more transitional that meaningful, in that i mean the book is meant to represent this character reflecting back on things he has done.
5. This close up still comes after a montage of the character cutting pictures and primitively cutting tape, so its as though the character is creating a collage.  This again seems to be pointing to wards the character being a little psycho .
6. The close up on the boys face being drawn over certainly connotes bad intentions, from this point on the \sequences takes a more serious and dark turn. The first inclination of this comes with the sudden change in the musics beat.
7. This extreme close up shot of lots of fish hooks stuck to some tape comes soon after 6 and simply reinforces the idea of it becoming more serious.
8. The build up to this close up shows the character preparing equipment, and given the previous shots of gruesome pictures, the audience would have been led to believe that some bad thing was going to happen, but instead the character sews pieces of parchment. 

Overall, this opening sequence is done as a montage in order to show the 'villain' reflecting on this deeds and making a collage of his work. The information is quite easy to understand as it uses powerful images of repulsive things. The tone of the clip is very dark all the way through, the tone comes across in the music and the lighting and the actions on screen (Mise-en-Scene).