*Blog post started on July 23, 2020.
I
think I might have my finances in order, so I am more stressed out than
ever. This proves that I am not an optimist because I am obviously
waiting for the other shoe drop. You
cannot expect someone who got the "things cannot get any worse" speech
only to witness a man set himself on fire and then fail to grab the
nearest fire extinguisher (To my credit, an extinguisher was grabbed.) to think any differently.
I
have also discovered that I am either more mature than I thought or
have never been too desperate. The last time I was desperate because of
my finances, that was because I had inadvertently committed check fraud.
This was from my infamous summer of 2006 where my inevitable bankruptcy
declaration was hurried because I did not want Carrie Clifton to be
desperate for her heroin fix.
Being
desperate opened up a friend to invite some trauma. It sucks that our
society is not forgiving of sexual expression because for her safety,
the exploitation should have been at a strip club or onlyfans.com. Damn
how COVID-19 has fucked everything up, but we should be cheering on
regulation when going into a questionable situation seems more
acceptable than profiting from nudity. What started as a kissing flesh
transaction for a low figure escalated into a need to clean off the
effected areas.
Oh
the times they are a changing. It use to be you stripped so you would
not whore. Now, it is better to not be seen exploiting yourself than to
own up to it. I suppose it is kind fitting when you look at our society
right now.
If DHS operatives are going to jump out of windowless vans to kidnap protesters, they should at least offer candy before hand. Pedophiles have more class than Trump.
A response form Samuel C Winchester
He (I) should read the Patriot Act that Joe Biden voted for.
Instead
of denouncing the harm our president is doing, Trump's supporter find a
way to blame the victims. As long as it protects their wallets and
churches, the evils of the actions are warranted. That may be thinking
too highly of the right.
I
know it is a crime to wish death or harm on a sitting president, but
what about being put in a Jigsaw trap with Donald Jr., Eric, Ivanka and
Jared Kushner? In the last few films, the primary traps allowed for
everyone to survive. If he can be an ideal person, death or hindering
harm should not befall him.
So
that is my pitch for "Saw 10". I would like Twisted Pictures to know
that I would take everything into consideration from the previous films
to make it work. Perhaps the writers of the last of the series to be
released at this point should have tried to direct that feature as well
to ensure the continuity was considered.
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It
has been 10 years since John Kramer, the mass murderer known in the
press as Jigsaw, died, but a desperate criminal informant claims that
there is a new game. There are five players and if he does not initiate
the game, he will be killed. Not soon after he is critically wounded by a
barrage of police gunfire to prevent the proposed game, joggers
discover a corpse dangling above a path, head stuck in a bucket. Well,
half a head as ME Logan Nelson and Detective Halloran would soon
discover.
The
corpse also featured the Kramer trademark of a piece of flesh being
removed in the shape of a puzzle piece. Being a thorough examiner, Logan
finds a flash drive left in the wound. It has a label on it which
states that "Now there are four" and it contains an audio file. When the
file is played, it says the games have started again and demands the
police do their job and provide justice so these contests will no longer
be necessary. This voice sounded like and is soon verified as Kramer's.
Things
only get more eerie when under the first victims fingernails is
Kramer's blood. Despite his death, THE Jigsaw is the prime suspect.
Halloran cannot accept that and is certain that it is either Nelson
whose Iraq War PTSD must have gotten the best of him or Nelson's
assistant and Jigsaw fangirl Eleanor. Impulsive and brash is not how
anyone should handle a Jigsaw scenario, so it seems the other four
players are the only ones who can save their selves provided they will
purge themselves of their sins.
Hopefully
4K Blu-ray sales will pick up so that resellers like Disc/Mega Replay
will encourage customers to sell them. "Jigsaw" might be the first I
would sell. This may have been a result of a thorough third/fourth
viewing. It came with a digital copy, so what would I be losing.
I
assure you that I did genuinely enjoy this film. After my
disappointment in "Saw III", I know you cannot straight up buy these
films, so I used a discount code at Red Box to judge this feature first.
The eighth entry features a clever story which harkened back to my
favorite installment "Saw II" and the traps are as ingenious as ever.
That felt very refreshing being a devotee to the series and having
missed domestic torture porn the past seven years.
If
you are into this series for the formula, this is definitely
worthwhile. There are not really any strong performances, but we never
expected those in these films after Tobin Bell's John Kramer had been
working from beyond the grave (sorry Costas Mandylor and Sean Patrick
Flannery). The gore is toned down, but the climax makes it up to all
those sickos who focused on that instead of the stories. Disappointment
only kicked in after multiple rewatches because someone decided to ditch
the past stories.
I
will not get into the time frame of the original seven films which
concluded in 2010. If everything wrapped up in the "Saw" world in 2007,
so be it. The film's twist ends up being too clever resulting in
continuity errors and ignorance of the Jigsaw associates that were
established after the second film. This is a major flaw because the
story flows to quickly, and to leave out the concept of Jigsaw followers
results in impossibilities playing out. There is too much for our
primary character to do and make this tale seem believable.
Besides
for asking of an extra effort to disband disbelief, you catch during
rewatches that the games do not play out the same way. I know the latter
half of the heptalogy focused on the importance of predicting the
actions of the players, but the predictions Jigsaw made are far too on
the nose. He could only do that if he is interacting with the players
which is a no-no. You end up realizing why they are not repeating this
format for the franchise's next feature, "Spiral".
"Jigsaw"
is definitely worth a rent for any horror fan. It is a mandatory view
for any fan of the "Saw" series, but like the weaker entries in the
series, the viewer cannot be overly scrutinizing. This results in it
being a hard fit in terms of series continuity, thus a wrong piece for
your "Saw" home media collection.
If
you choose to purchase it, be sure to redeem that digital code A.S.A.P.
Universal and Sony are cracking down on expiration dates.
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