Undeniably, the saw series is definitely an immortal classic in the history of horror films.
Combining all the elements of horror films, blood, violence, suspense, and fear, but absolutely unconventional and perfect combination of them, forming this film is enough to make those directors who prefer to pile up horror films with disgusting and blood to be ashamed. A stunning work.
Who said that horror movies are extremely bloody is abusive? The saw series is an example of opposition that is full of blood but full of novelty and shock.
When I first watched saw2, I was shocked by the director's idea. I was able to create such a novel horror film, which really made me very happy. But most of what I saw on the Internet were bloody negative comments on it, and then learned about saw1's admiration, so I went to great pains to buy saw1, probably because I saw the synopsis of the plot on the Internet in advance, let I lost the shock when I watched the film, and since then I vowed to never read the plot introduction before watching a horror film. So when saw3 came out, I had to endure it for a few months, and when all the gun versions on the market disappeared, and D9 became popular, I carefully bought it back home.
Although the Saw series uses blood as the main component, it is definitely not purely visual like ordinary blood horror films, regardless of the meaning of blood itself.
The director’s wisest place is to unearth the human nature behind the blood.
Fear, like a maggot attached to bones, has clung to the viewer's heart from the beginning of the film. What is particularly impressive is the brilliant performance of the head fragmenter at the beginning of saw2. Fear, despair, help, and finally died in the heart-piercing screams. In fact, the most frightening thing is not the bloody sight, but the sympathetic discomfort caused by the screams of despair.
Saw3 still continues the consistent style of the saw series, and at the beginning of the film, it contributes an absolutely shameless image of self-mutilating limbs in the dark.
In order to survive and fight for self, overcome the pain of the body and sense organs, and completely dominate the will to survive with the spirit.
Brother Jigsaw, like the God behind it, controls the destiny of all participants. He brought them into this game. As for the end of the world, he gave them a choice, letting them choose between survival and death, at the cost of facing the most unbearable heart-piercing limbs completely alone. Pain. The so-called death and resurrection, but unfortunately almost no one can win the game.
Amanda was an exception in saw2, which seemed to be a little gratifying for her victory, although it was assimilated by jigsaw and became his assistant. Who knows that the only little relief left to the audience in this film was overthrown in saw3, and Amanda failed to win in the end.
Let's play a game.
Live or die,
It's all your choice.
Saw is a survival game, it allows you to face the most vulnerable part of human nature, supplemented by physical pain, it seems like a kind of practice, winning , And then reborn.
Jigsaw designed a game that seems to be looking for the person who can overcome the dark side of human nature. This makes me think that he is looking for self-salvation in the process of setting up a game for self-saving.
Amanda's appearance gave him a real hope. From the time she initially won, jigsaw completed the whole new game that followed. If Amanda can finally win, they will all be redeemed. So at the end of the film, when Amanda cried and shouted to jigsaw: "I mean nothing to you", jigsaw said calmly and emotionally: "No, you mean everything to me." Amanda didn't understand why jigsaw did that. Care about Lynn who seems to be irrelevant to them. To her, Lynn is just a participant in one of their games, but she doesn't know that this is all the chips in the ultimate game designed by jigsaw for her. So when she shot Lynn, the death and jigsaw's enigmatic revelations finally made her awaken.
I want to play a game.
Your will is being tested.
Your will to keep someone alive.
Can you do that?
Can you follow the rules and grant someone a gift of life?
The rules of our game are made very clear.
You need to abide by those rules.
But you couldn't.
Jigsaw watched Amanda die, and finally announced desperately: "Game over."
When people thought that this heart-piercing death game was finally over, Jigsaw participated in the final game by himself. He put in his last bargaining chip, and it was a complete defeat.
The last game in Saw3, I would like to call it a gambling game. The bargaining chip is life, and gambling is the tolerance of people. The rules of the game and the conditions of the game are extremely cruel. If tolerance can still win under such circumstances, everyone can be redeemed. But from the mistake of Amanda, to the mistake of Jerry, people finally couldn't tolerate others, let hatred and revenge fill their chests, and they were defeated in this survival game.
Saw is such a cruel and sad survival game that all participants are wiped out. Until his death, Jigsaw failed to find the salvation he had been looking for. (It’s really hard to squint...)
In this way, Saw unabashedly dissected human nature in front of people, allowing people to see the most vulnerable part hidden in the body, so sensitive that it could not stand the test. The most visual manifestation of this idea is the part where Lynn performs brain surgery on jigsaw. The whole process-from peeling off the brain, sawing the skull, to opening the cranial cavity, releasing the congestion in the brain. I think the director's purpose in showing the whole process so truthfully and unabashedly is not just to achieve visual effects. These few minutes seem to be the epitome of the whole film, the process of opening the body to release the fragility and obtain salvation and purification.
During the whole process of watching saw3, I was not brought into the mood of the movie. However, when Jerry faced the murderer who killed his son and was tortured by the body twister and made a painful decision, I finally couldn’t help it. , With the despair and pain of the three people in the film, the twists and roars of hatred and forgiveness brought tears down. I can't stand such a test anymore, such a naked suffering. It was as if the most painful scar in my heart was torn open mercilessly, and he was forced to put it in front of him and asked him to cut off the rotten flesh with his own hands. It was a kind of mental torture, direct and desperate.
Watching the entire movie, it seems that I have also undergone a brutal test. So I had to admire the director's brilliant ideas and layout.
In a sense, Saw can be regarded as a humanity revelation in which both the filmmaker and the viewer participate, and together undergo the most cruel and true humanity test.
I believe that the saw series will become the eternal classic of horror films in my mind.
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