Saw, and other Scary Things.
This morning I was waiting for the bus to take me from the commuter lot to work and it was waaaay late. Then, when it arrived, as it was pulling up I noticed a strange bus driver I haven’t seen before. It was a small woman with short hair but… she had a mustache and crazy glasses. My heart skipped a beat. I thought something was up. Why was this strange woman dressed like a man? Then I realized it was Halloween. So I went to work and that was the highlight of my day.
On Friday, Katy and I saw Saw IV and I was pretty entertained even though the last one kinda sucked. The first was great, the second was better, the third was bad, but the fourth really had a lot to it. It had a lot of backstory about Jigsaw, the “killer,” and it got me thinking that, you know, he’s not really a bad guy.
I’m not sure that identifying with a “serial killer” is healthy, but that’s the thing — he’s not really a killer. He’s never killed anybody.
I actually see Jigsaw as sort of a perverted superhero. None of his victims were innocent. They were all guilty and deserved some form of punishment, but he didn’t kill any of them, it was ultimately their choice. That’s why, in the third movie, he “punished” Amanda because she made the games unfair… the victims had no way to escape. I kind of found myself rooting for him in this one because you find out what makes him put his first “victim” through a test and you get the idea that the guy really learns his lesson. More-so than a 30-day jail sentence would, anyway.
For example, one victim in the latest film raped 3 women on film. The “justice system” let him go. Jigsaw’s justice was to tie him to a machine and make him choose between escaping and loosing his eyes in the process or… getting each limb ripped off until he died.
The fact is, the real world be a better place with some people just not around, or at least served up with some nice eye-for-an-eye style justice.
Or rape-for-an-eye. Same thing.
Go get ‘em, Jigsaw. See you next year.
Happy Halloween!
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