“The Little Things” Is The Copycat Killer Version of David Fincher’s “Se7en”
John Lee Hancock’s new serial killer thriller starring Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, and Jared Leto sticks closely to “Se7en” with the big things, as well as the small.
“It’s the little things that are important. It’s the little things that get you caught”, Deputy Sheriff Deke (Denzel Washington) tells Detective Jim Baxter (Rami Malek) in The Little Things. Deke is in L.A. from Kern County running an errand and ends up consulting on a case that Baxter has been working for several months. Someone has been kidnapping women, toying with them, then stabbing them to death, and Deke immediately notices parallels to a case he never closed, back when he had Baxter’s job. It’s at this point, then, when anybody who has seen David Fincher’s Se7en also starts seeing the parallels.
Released in 1995, Se7en begins as Detective David Mills (Brad Pitt) walks in on the grisly crime scene of another detective, William Somerset (Morgan Freeman). They eventually become partners in crime-solving. Mills — young, white, and ambitious — plays second fiddle to the older, black, and worn-down Detective Somerset, as does Baxter with Deke. Each detective begins investigating the case on their own, but they…
