Monday, November 5, 2007

SAW II

Another astonish enigma

In SAW I post, I said we were thinking to watch another SAW sequence. We did. After SAW I, we decided to take some relaxing time. We had a light dinner. Then, the movie night began.

Two SAW movies in a row. What a day

The show began with another victim. You saw a guy with a helmet. The helmet has spikes on the front. You could tell if the helmet was close, the guy would die. The guy saw the monitor and the clip. He knew the key to open his helmet was under his right eye. If he wanted to survive, he needed to cut himself open. Another bloody scene. He did not make it.

Then, the scene turned to a detective. Apparently this time the Jigsaw wanted this detective involved. He even wrote down the detective's name on the ceiling.

The detective recalled something and so all the cops and SWAT's went to a steel factory. They found the Jigsaw. Like SAW I, the Jigsaw set up a trap. Three SWAT's were down by triggering the trap. The Jigsaw was calm. He said casually to the detective, a female cup, and the SWAT leader "you need to worry about the problem in that room". So they went to the room. Of course they did not trigger something to kill themselves. So they were extremely careful. They uncovered some monitors. In the monitors, the detective found his son was in a room with a group of people.

The room was locked. You saw the images from the monitors. But you could not heard anything. The Jigsaw said the room was locked. Around 10 people were there. The Jigsaw said in 2 hours poisonous gas would be released to fill the room. The lock would be turned on in 3 hours. So, if any in this room could survive in 3 hours, then would be free. Or, if any could solve the riddle and open the safe (the safe linked to a secret passageway to outside), they would be free. The Jigsaw hinted these people that everyone in this room linked to each other. You could not find the link among these people. They were types across the spectrum. Where was the link?

The detective wanted to save his son. You saw some good scenes between the Jigsaw and the detective. Meanwhile, you saw how people in that room reacted. Panic, selfish, desperate, scared... Some bully scenes occurred. People gradually discovered some nasty truth through the Jigsaw's tapes. People turned to distrust each other. The group split. Somehow the most dangerous person in the group found the way to open the safe (the way to get out). The way could be peaceful or violent. Just need to ask everyone to turn and reveal the number behind each other's neck. But this person did not choose the peaceful way. He did not want to work with others. He wanted to do everything in his own way. So, misunderstanding and distrust came. People were killed due to these two causes.

In a corridor, four people discovered the little boy was the son of the detective. In turned out everyone except the little boy in the room had some histories with this detective. Apparently the detective framed these people to some crimes they did not commit. These people suffered due to this dishonor frame. No matter how tense the detective's relationship with his son, he loved his son. He could not witness his son suffer for him.

The movie at that point gave a strong message to the audience. The detective was not a good person. He set people up and framed people in order to get some credits for himself. But, the Jigsaw was cruel. He wanted the innocent son to pay off his father's sin.

Then the detective went crazy. He just wanted to save his son. He compromised with the Jigsaw and pressed the button which allowed the area where the detective and the Jigsaw were to sink down to the garage immediately. They drove to the house. In the meantime, the female cop found the source of the signal. So all SWATs moved to that house too. The SWATS did not see any one in that house. But the house was the same house. What was going on? Then they discovered all the moves they saw from the monitors were not real-time. These moves had had happened some time ago. Then, a safe suddenly opened. You saw the son of the detective was placed inside the safe. He was alive.

Then, you saw the detective was trapped. Amanda set him up. You realized that the detective was who the Jigsaw wanted to capture.

An unpredicted movie.