If we did not have dim sum with Navaline, we would never got a chance to watch SAW I.
Dim sum at Saigon Sunnyvale is quite tasty. Yesterday Totof and I went there with Navaline. We ordered various types and all of them were with good quality. During the lunch, we talked about Guitar Hero. Then Navaline suddenly asked us if we would like to watch SAW IV together. Of course a big NO. I did not like to watch horror movies and scare myself to death. Totof could watch bloody scenes. But he did not enjoy horror movies much either.
Navaline said SAW was just an enigma. Every victim was there for a reason. Every victim must have done something wrong in the past so the Jigsaw brought the victim to "the room". If the victim could solve an enigma before the time was out. The victim could redeem their life. SAW was more like a thriller than a horror movie.
Sounded interesting. I was not that against SAW after her explanation.
We went to Totof's place after the lunch. We played Guitar Hero. We could tell Navaline very much liked this game. First song, Navaline tried Nirvana's Heart Shaped Box and got 84% at easy level. So we encourage her to try medium level. She tried Pearl Jam's Life Wasted and Cheap Trick's Surrender. Suddenly, she asked Totof to get SAW I. Oh, the SAW topic was back. Well, since we were not that against SAW I, we could give it a chance. We continued to play Guitar Hero for an hour. We all had fun with it.
Breath, breath, and breath
Then, we decided to switch to SAW I. The beginning was ok. After 5 min, we were all tensed. The director used flash back to show us what the Jigsaw has done and all the scenes were cruel. Somehow I remembered Amanda, the girl who survived from the Jigsaw's capture. She took the key out from a man's stomach and opened the jaw confinement.
Then the scene went back to a room where you saw two victims were chained at two corners and one body laying in a big blood pool. Each victim found an enveloped and a tape inside. The tape provided the game rule. Apparently the rule for Lawrence, a doctor, was to solve the enigma by 6. Adam, another victim, found a kidnap image accidentally when he looked around Lawrence's wallet. The image showed that Lawrence's daughter and wife were kidnapped. On the back of the image, it said you would look more clearly when you shut your eyes. Adam asked his partner to turn off the light and Lawrence found a box and a cell phone.
Both tried to remember how they ended up in this room. Some scenes were quite scary especially the one Adam remembered. The scenes were flashed back to two cops. Two cops were chasing after the Jigsaw. At a face to face confinement, a cop was cut by a sharp knife at throat. His partner was chasing after the Jigsaw. The Jigsaw setup a trap and this partner cop killed himself by gunshots by triggering the trap. Bloody. And you saw the Jigsaw crawled up and the move enriched the scary atmosphere.
Then you understood the sins Lawrence and Adam had. Then the discovered cell phone rang. Lawrence realized his family was in danger. He needed to get out of here. He did not solve the enigma by 6. The kidnapper decided to kill Lawrence's daughter and wife. Lawrence was blinded. He did not see what was happening in his house. He only heard by the cell phone. You heard a struggle between his wife and the kidnapper. Then you heard a gunshot. More and more. You saw how desperate Lawrence was compared to his calm at the beginning. A dramatic change. You saw how Lawrence reached his decision - cut his foot by a saw. I could not watch that scene.
Lawrence then crawled to the gun and shot Adam. Adam was dead. Lawrence was yelling loud to the camera and said he completed all missions he had. He begged the Jigsaw to free his family. Then the door was opened. Zep, the kidnapper, opened the door because he needed to kill Lawrence. Lawrence was saved because suddenly Adam moved swiftly to get the gun. The anger that Adam had in assuming Zep was the Jigaw made him crazy. He took the toilet cover and stoke it on Zep's head. Zep was dead.
Lawrence crawled out and promised Adam he would come back to save him. The cruel part came when Adam found a recorder and a tape in Zep's packet. Zep was not the Jigsaw. Zep was also a victim with a game for him to play. Adam was mad. Then you saw the body in the blood pool stood up. He was alive. He was John. He was the Jigsaw. What an amazing scene.
The Jigsaw left Adam another cruel fact. The key of his chain was left in the bath tub where Adam woke up at the beginning of the movie. It was Adam who kicked the key and pushed the key to the sink hole. The key was gone due to his kick. The Jigsaw wanted Adam to taste "alive" and then closed the door. That was SAW I.
I was so tensed during these 103 min. SAW was much better than I thought. It was a good movie with incredible ideas. I would not mind watching other SAW's. Navaline and Totof agreed with me. So we were talking to get another SAW...
