The Fear Room is no longer afraid

Romaine 2022-04-21 09:02:04

I have always had a good impression of the Saw series. As a film critic said, "The Saw series has successfully created a killing myth with Jigsaw as the center, cherishing life as the propaganda slogan, and redemption as the theme". This time, I continue to watch Saw5 with hope. .In fact, I always prefer the name "Fear Fighting Room" in Hong Kong translation, because two or more people are trapped in a secret room to fight beasts.

I am still obsessed with the novel and weird killing methods in this movie that retain the Jigsaw style, And just after watching The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning before watching Saw5, I realized that what attracted me to Saw is that unlike other horror films' serial killers, Jigsaw kills for the sake of killing, Jigsaw uses cruel methods "with good intentions" Teach the world to cherish life, whether it's your own or someone else's. In this episode, 5 related people who killed 8 people were found to fight each other, and the dark side of human nature continued to show. I recognized the familiar female voice as Julie Benz who played Rita in Dexter. She almost didn't recognize her with black hair. In the end, she survived with her tough character, especially when she stabbed another woman to death. Her image of sweet in Dexter gave me a big impact. It is estimated that 6 should have a role in it.)

At the beginning of the "game", the recording introduced the rules of the game. This time, 5 people have to rely on teamwork to survive. When the two dead people go to the last level, they will wake up to what teamwork means. But how do you know the first level? The key is the same, but it's the second level. I saw that in those air-raid shelters, two people can be put in, but the other person is not allowed to go in. I think this group of people is really stupid, but it may be this way to highlight the dark selfishness of human nature. .This is an important decision about human nature. Most of the people in the first few episodes died in the beautiful mechanism designed by Jigsaw. No one can really give up and survive, but because the mechanism is different, what everyone abandons is all. It's not the same, I think it's a little unfair, especially for people who clearly escaped his death game and then caught him back and thrown it into another death game. But in itself he is all absurd and beautifully set up. The way to kill people, to carry out a kind of almost paranoid judgment in the way of royal power and divine authorization, to save oneself in the name of punishment, to struggle in vain with the end of death... The criminals who are guilty and at large will be punished privately. The third level The series circuit of the series evenly distributes the voltage Brit, I wouldn't even realize it if I didn't talk about it at all. It turns out that every level is so cleverly connected in series. The last level How much blood will you give in order to survive echoes back to the fat man in the first episode. But I still don't understand how the fat guy died, and how much blood did he have to give up to survive?

There are a few more points that I don't quite understand. Since the people who survived after several difficult choices in the first few episodes have become loyal believers of Jigsaw (believers such as Amanda, although there is no way to save the parties when designing the agency), why? This episode is about Jigsaw looking for an apprentice but not seeing what Hoffman suffered, so he became Jigsaw's successor. I once again felt unfair compared with Jigsaw's own daughter Amanda. The second is the brain-dead Agent Erickson, who gave Hoffman some weak and vulnerable At first glance, I knew that it was the smoke of the set up. I thought that Agent Strahm was the successor of Jigsaw. It was too brainless. Would people be stupid enough to call you and see that the caller ID is their own mobile phone and put the mobile phone at the murder scene to locate you? Get to where you are. Also, in the first few episodes, Jigsaw put a "needle" among the people trapped in the beast fight as a guide to ensure the rules are followed and offer choices, and the 5 gamers in this episode don't seem to need any guidance. Consciously follow the rules of the game, it seems a bit unreasonable, people in this situation will suspect each other, distrust and kill each other in order to protect themselves, just as Strahm never disdain to follow Jigsaw's rules in the process of tracing, although the first A narrow escape led to the second loss of life. But the five gamers so quickly and so cleverly followed the rules seemed contrived. At the end of the film, watching the glass coffin that Hoffman was hiding in slowly sank into the ground through the trap. At the moment, when Strahm shot the bulletproof glass coffin in desperation and in vain, I was thinking, the mechanism is exposed, why didn't he drop the grab and get stuck in the turning gear, if the coffin didn't sink, maybe Hoffman I don't know how he will feel when he will be sandwiched into persimmons, and what will he do?

Finally, I want to comment on the subtitles of Saw5, which I downed. The subtitles of the gamer at the beginning of the film were cut into pieces by the pendulum giant axe and screamed, and the subtitles suddenly said "Ah~~~ I am Tarzan." , At that time, I didn't know how to react except for Jon. However, as soon as the pendulum giant axe appeared in the title, I immediately thought of Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. At that time, the suffocation of reading a book still existed, but it was not due to the limited space in the movie. Allow, swinging the giant axe in 60 seconds to complete its sacred and glorious task. When Hoffman was promoted from detective to lieutenant, he issued a thank-you subtitle and suddenly came up with "Thank you CCAV MAV", and was embarrassed again. And in Jigsaw When I caught Hoffman laughing at how bad his "pendulum axe" was, the subtitle appeared "But I found out that there is such a biscuits, a tiger can't be an anti-dog, the technology is really imitation", I finally couldn't help laughing Bird, such a serious horror film turned into a comedy for the people in the subtitles group. Except 嗛囧 still 囧.

Because I watched the same bloody The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning before watching Saw5. Although I haven't watched horror for a long time I thought I would feel "horrible" after so long, but because I watched too much in high school and saw immunity, the bloody scenes of these two dramas also saw me numb. Later, I accidentally gave my hand when I went to the toilet after watching it. When the door was caught, I felt heart-wrenching pain. I suddenly felt the pain of the victims in horror movies. It was too cold-blooded to feel that I was so numb before.

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Saw V quotes

  • Mark Hoffman: What do you want from me?

    Jigsaw: I want to know if you have what it takes to survive.

  • Luba: Survival of the fittest my ass!