Saw
October 26, 2004 6:45 a.m.

The website is rather intriguing,

Though I have heard of this movie. my best friend B told me about it. He received a marketing disc for it at work. It was a dvd with multiple trailers on it...and him being all excited about horror movies. (do you know how many horror movies I've seen in the theater just because he wanted to see them? a lot...and most of them bad. Fear dot com, Darkness falls...both so bad. yet The Ring was surprisingly good, and pee yourself scary...and Dawn of the Dead was really over all entertaining.) He is really excited about this one and showed me 2 of the trailers. One was called Razor and the other....Um...Helmet.

And the thing is even though I am the target audience for this film. I like dark, abject, film that makes you think....such as Seven and The Cell. ...And while both of those were dark and gory and violent.....this one seems too sadistic for my liking. And I've had conversations with my fm telling her about it....and how she and I are the target audience...and how from what I've told her, she doesn't want to see it either.

I'm sure there's this deep message about human behavior....but....if it is making this statement about the violent nature of society ....what does it say about us for watching it? I've stated relentlessly that art is a reflection of society. Art shows us what we have become....and if that society has become so desensitized that we need a film where a girl has a minute to stab someone in the stomach in order to have the chance to keep her jaw from being ripped off....I say that we have cultural issues. ...Or the idea of a man slicing his skin to pieces as he attempts to escape a small room of razorblades.

Seven is primarily implied violence and the film is so well crafted in story and filmmaking....I mean Fincher is a genus. And The Cell is an Opera created by exceptional artists. That movie is just a moving painting. ....And while it is abject art, it is amazing art none the less. And it's an opera, so everything is just over the top.

but everything I've seen about this film is sadistic torture for the sake of sadistic torture....And while I'm sure it is very well done (and as for mentioned I never blame the art or the artists for the content) .....I don't think I personally need to, or could handle sitting and watching 2 hours of sadistic torture.

I dunno...maybe I've just become more sensitive than I was during my days of reading Cisco and watching every demented film I could get my hands on. (The Cube, The Cell, Seven, Fight Club, Stigmata). I mean, violence in film doesn't bother me...I grew up watching violent film. ...but when I saw Man on Fire...I almost walked out because the violence really got to me.