Dakota

I watched Saw on TV tonight. It was very disturbing. I wasn't really scared, because it wasn't particularly "scary." It was just very troubling. I had known the surprise ending (when it comes to horror movies, I like knowing all I can about them before I see them; it's also how I decide whether to see it), so that wasn't it. I think that it was the moralist tone that was so distressing.

Maybe that and I can just picture former high school classmates seeing it and being so moved by it where they take it as their concept of living life for today. I am reminded of people that saw Fight Club and thought "Ooh! That's the clique for me!" For Mean Girls (the chick equivalent to Fight Club--no, really!), it was girls that wanted to become like the Plastics, even though it went against the point of the film. I digress.

The head-trap scene was friggin' disturbing... Not for the actual trap, but how the girl had to escape from it. Yay, intestines. ::shudder::

But, yes, commendable--not that much blood. For all the scenes that were all talk-talk-talk, though, there wasn't much of a plot. We didn't learn a lot about anything. I know there's a sequel, but since the filmmakers copped to the fact that no sequel was originally planned, that's a little frustrating. Very upsetting moments here and there, with only a few oogie-boogie moments (that mainly revolved around that puppet figure in the dark). For a murderer with such a brilliant mind (since he did actually make all the contraptions), he certainly relied on stupid oogie-boogie tactics (the masks, particularly... what was one of them... a warthog or something?) I also thought Cary Elwes was kind of really bad.

Well. Suitably freaked the fuck out. Guess it's bed time.