Film analysis 2

Saw

Film Analysis

This horror movie that I watched you could say was a Psychological Thriller to a certain extent due to the strange plot twists within this film. The film is about a man who puts his victims into machines or scenarios where they will either die or have to do something horrific to wither themselves or someone else to come out of what the killer in the film calls “a game”. There main plot during this film shows the story of two men who have been captured by Jigsaw, the killer. It shows how they were captured why they were taken and what happens to them while they are take hostage and put into there traps which is a chain around there ankles connected to a metal pipe and the only way that they can break free is if they saw through there own foot before the poisonous gas in the air kills them.

When the film starts it throws the audience straight into the action by showing a minor character in the film in one of Jigsaw’s traps and it tells the audience what the film is going to be about straight away. This is the minor characters only appearance in the whole film because the only reason he is in the film is to show the audience the idea of the film and he dies in the first scene.

The types of characters in this film challenges the original idea of what horror films normally have in film, the film does have one killer and numerous victims but the killer also has an acquaintance in this film who helps him kidnap one of the victims wife and children but this acquaintance ends up being a victim in because jigsaw mad this man do these things if not he would die. This is what I mean about this film being a psychological thriller it has a lot of plot twists within the film that you generally find out at the end.

This film has been written quite cleverly because the killer in this film doesn’t just kill random people he kills people who have done bad things in there life and Jigsaw always talks about how it isn’t him who kills them he gives them a chance to redeem themselves if not they kill themselves. So this relates to society today really and it asks people questions, do people who do bad things deserve to die or be put in these positions?