When "Chainsaw" (1) ended, the big boss John stood up from the pool of blood, slowly tore off his mask, and said "Game over" to the trapped Adam with a half-smiling expression, I was completely shocked. On the one hand because of the unexpected ending, on the other hand because of the song "Hello Zepp".
The same theme song is used at the end of the "Chainsaw" series of movies, accompanied by flashbacks to review the key plots of the movie or details related to several other movies, giving people a sense of sudden openness and darkness. As someone who is sensitive to music, this design is very appealing to me. In the seven films, as the story continues to advance, the intricate plots are intertwined with each other. Various characters seem to live in different planes of the same time and space. They are constantly making choices in the face of the dilemma of life and death. He experienced the torment of soul and body while flying with flesh and blood.
Behind every cold-blooded incident is a heartwarming story, which is also used in Chainsaw. Engineer John was originally a middle-class man and was in love with his wife, Jill, who was pregnant. Just as they were getting ready for a new life and a better life, they lost their unborn child due to an accident. Immediately afterwards, John was diagnosed with cancer, but the insurance company was looking for various loopholes and refused to cover his medical expenses. John is very desperate for the world. After his suicide attempt, he gradually turned black. He turned into a "jigsaw" and designed one game after another to punish people who, in his opinion, committed crimes and did not cherish them. He gave those people two choices: to survive through suffering, or to die.
Those pains were tragic. Such as cutting off your own feet to escape, deciding between two friends who to kill, or hooking your chest muscles to hang yourself; and those deaths are even more horrific: jaws torn open by jaw crackers, burns Died, injected with concentrated acid... Under his test, some people were brutally killed, while others escaped. And some of these people, because of his spiritual calling, became his disciples and helped him continue his career.
When I watch this series of films, some of the scenes are too bloody and sometimes make me uncomfortable. But that doesn't stop me from being attracted to it. The most fascinating part of it is how the stories connect to each other. The little details that were inconspicuous in the last film often become the key to the next film. Looking at it this way, the audience will always follow the direction of guessing the story, but it is difficult to guess.
A typical example is Amanda, who was caught by a jigsaw because of drug use in the first part, and saved herself by killing others to find the key; but in the next part, she regarded the jigsaw as a spiritual leader and became a jigsaw. Descendants of the saw. In the third story, she failed the final test of the jigsaw, which resulted in her death; just when everyone thought she died of jealousy and incompetence, the fifth revealed that she was actually subjected to the jigsaw. Threats from a descendant Hoffman; and later episodes show that she was selected by Jigsaw not only because of her drug use, but because she instigated her boyfriend to rob Jigsaw's wife Jill, which eventually led to Jill's miscarriage. ...
The more information the audience gets, the more they find themselves in a giant maze. This kind of shredding and cocoon-like revealing process greatly satisfies people's curiosity, and the realistic flying of blood plasma stimulates the audience's senses. "Chainsaw" has completed a huge story system that is rich and nested in seven films, which has a strong impact on the audience. It can be described as an epic work of thriller movies.
"Chainsaw" has been a huge success among thrillers. The first film, which was released before Halloween in 2004, won more than 100 million US dollars at the box office with a cost of less than 10 million, and attracted a large number of loyal fans. Subsequently, the film met the audience at the rate of one film per year until the seventh film ended in 2010. There are not only classic horror elements such as claustrophobia, darkness, abuse, and killing in the story, but also the interlocking, almost flawless killing tools and killing game design; Be a game" and "You need to make a choice" such death-spell-like dialogue also became the film's hallmark.
The original title of the film is "Saw", which translates to "The Saw", which I think is a little monotonous, which is easy to think of, it may be a low-cost boring work under the banner of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre". In fact, it's quite classy. First of all, the director has done a lot of thinking and inquiries about the complexity, belief, light and darkness of human nature; and the ingeniously designed mechanism reflects the charm of metal mechanical products in the industrial age; moreover, the seven storylines are connected with each other. Adhering to and advancing, produces a flowing beauty of order, and watching this beauty is actually a very ecstasy experience.
In addition, the success of "Chainsaw" also lies in the fact that it creates a chamber in both physical and psychological senses. It always creates new fears at the end of the story, evoking the desire to keep watching with an open and looping ending. The helplessness of human beings, the helplessness of fish and meat, plus the claustrophobic environment, the cold weapon and the few countdowns left... The door to hell has opened, if you want to escape, just make a choice!
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