There is the sense in Seven of Fabulation or magical realism as popularised by Robert Scholes. The unnamed location of where the film takes place is in fact made up of several cities parts of LA and New York and therefore reflects the constructedness of society. With the sense that Seven explores a world of texts and the self reflexitivity shown on these observes that it is a police film with somerset making observation on the life of the police.
We also have a sense of fragmentation within the film in relation to the loss of a grand narrative which JOhn Doe in a sense is trying to reinstate with his crimes. Also Mills and Somersets journey throughout the various landscapes of the city suggests there is a fragmented sprawl of desert and buildings suggestting no organised pattern. The city also with its constant rain suggests a bleak outlook for the future of society
Somerset within Seven represents the nostalgia for society of the past as his dress is 1940s in style whilst Mills is shown to represent contemporary society with his more modern look. This nostalgia and recylcing of the past is also evident in the overall look of the film which derives from film noir of the 1940s perhaps arguing that that was a time of order and a society with a narrative that was whole.
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