![]() ![]() ![]() It’s the Filoli Mansion, 86 Cañada Road, Woodside, about 25 miles south of the city. Van Orton’s grand home isn’t in San Francisco at all. There is a mansion here, at the junction with Webster Street up toward the Marina District but it’s not the one seen in the film. ![]() It’s set, and mainly filmed in, San Francisco, where Nicholas Van Orton supposedly lives at ‘2210 Broadway’, “the biggest house on the street”. It seems in part an homage to the paranoia thrillers of the Seventies, particularly Alan J Pakula’s The Parallax View, with the mysterious company’s audio-visual ‘assessment’ and Howard Shore’s music score. In David Fincher’s follow up to the magnificent Se7en, the gradual build-up of paranoia is gripping, but the final reveal expects us to swallow a few too many improbabilities. A supposedly fun role-play game turns upside down the life of mega rich businessman, Nicholas van Orton ( Michael Douglas), a man already haunted by the suicide of his father. ![]()
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