Looking back at the beginning of watching "Chainsaw 1", there was no fancy human anatomy in the later work, and most of the plot happened in that monotonous closed room (yes, not even a secret room), Just relying on a jigsaw + a dead body, completed a self-questioning moral test of survival. In addition to the horror, it also virtually completed a baptism of spirit and flesh: good and evil are rewarded, and be a good person. Cherish life, don't self-harm. Yes, that's where Saw 1 starts: redemption. The purpose of those torture devices that make people horrified at first glance is not to make you die, but to make you live. Jigsaw, like superheroes like Batman, exercises justice above law and morality. Although it is controversial, it does not deny that his starting point is good, and that he has established a self-consistent reward and punishment system: if you follow the rules and choose a trade-off, you will be able to obtain redemption and new life, which is also considered a kind of "relative fairness". Therefore, in my personal opinion, the first seven works of "Chainsaw" have formed a perfect closed-loop story: Jigsaw establishes the rules - some people break the rules, abuse the rules - the first disciple saw his legs to survive Adam amended the rules and maintained the justice of the rules. As a series of movies, the seven works can maintain a very high score, and the logic of the front and back can still be matched, which is quite an amazing thing, and the seventh film has obvious meaning of closing, which is a very good home. Therefore, I am still quite speechless about the restart of the "Chainsaw" series in 2017. Well, let's talk about Chainsaw 9. In all fairness, if this movie wasn't a sequel to the Chainsaw franchise, it would have been pretty good. B-level fun is not too new, but it is disgusting. For example, the tongue killing at the beginning was really irritated by watching it in the middle of the night, so that I immediately quit the video and meditated on the core values; the logic of revenge for punishing evil and promoting good barely made sense, starting from the issue of police corruption + abuse of power, if It was released during the time of the Floyd incident, and it may also receive a larger wave of discussions from public opinion. However, even so, it cannot cover the problems of "Chainsaw 9". One, of course, is the monotony of aesthetics. The execution method is naturally disgusting, but there seems to be nothing new. You can say that I am pursuing perverted interest, but... to tell the truth, I have never seen any fancy work in the first eight works, and the ninth work only achieved the level of [physical fear], it is really difficult for people to stay. more impressive. The second is the loss of "redemption". And it is "salvation" that gives John Kramer, and even the entire chainsaw series, a layer of divine brilliance, which is the above-mentioned "you are for the past" The end of the sinful life of Ke Xia. I have to say that the last picture is quite visually shocking, especially when the scenes of the puppet and Majafak are cut together, it begins to have a bit of irony: everyone in the system, It is a marionette being manipulated, and it is a grasshopper tied to a rope, pulling one hair and moving the whole body. Everyone is in a vortex (you see, the question is finally answered). That's pretty much how I feel about Saw 9: loss of creativity, loss of choice, loss of redemption. He wanted to torture justice, but he was first swallowed by the flames of revenge, and burned innocent haystacks.
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