I watched the movie Saw tonight, and it must tell you it got me thinking. For those of you that haven't seen the movie, it is about a serial killer who doesn't actually kill his victims but manages to find a way to make them kill themselves or each other. It's a pretty twisted idea but the movie was pretty well done. But I'm not here to write a review of that flick, because you can go to Rotten Tomatoes and read about five hundred reviews for it from guys who make a living off being pricks about movies. I'm going to write a bit about the concept behind the serial killer's motives. He wanted to find ways to make people kill themselves, and the methods he used was by placing them or their loved ones in danger and making them make it out of some sort of trap that most of the time ended up killing them. I feel like this was very non-creative and quite violent. All this guy really had to do was a bit of homework and he would have been able to get these people to kill themselves much more creatively:
1) Make them listen to Celine Dion looped over and over again. I think even hardcore Celine Dion fans would realize after a few hours of that shit that they were really listening to the demon-harp of Satan himself.
2) Stock all the video rental stores within 1000 miles of their house with hundreds of copies of Kid and Play's House Party trilogy.
3) Trick them into thinking Taco Bell is good for them, and that they should eat it for every meal.
4) Convince them that Allah will grant them 1000 virgins if they blow themselves up.
5) If they live in a major city, take away their cell phone.
6) If they live in a first world country, take away their internet.*
7) Make them watch that old show from the 80's where that old lady type-type-types away at her old typewriter all day and somehow manages to solve fucking mysteries. I think she was married to that old lawyer who also solves mysteries, Matlock.
This is just a small list of things you could do to make any number of sane people contemplate suicide. I only got in an argument with a friend of mine while we were in Florence, Italy about whether or not I could convince him to kill himself despite the fact that he knew I would be attempting to do so and he actively did not want to commit suicide. After a couple hours of discussion about global warming and how it would mutate his children, he almost killed himself. Then we went and got pizza and he decided I was an idiot. We'll see who's an idiot in 30 years when his kids are all mutated.
*Note: Ocupants of Third World countries are extremely resilient and probably the bravest people on the planet. People commit suicide in Japan and the U.S. over shit like not making it into the right college, but people in poverty go through SOME SHIT and never think about taking themselves out of the game. That's what's fucked about about imperialism...we want to basically take these people from having the will to survive despite shitty conditions to wanting to die in overly abudant lifestyles. That's why movies like American Tail are so fucked up, because its basically about how America is really just trying to convince poor immigrants to commit suicide. It sickens me.*
Wow, sounds like a fucked up movie. I was at Blockbuster w/ Dan B. last night and we (along w/ Jenny Allen Brooks) decided it would be too scary for us to handle. Truth be told, we were peeing our pants. Not really. We decided to rent King Arthur instead, which was not stellar but probably better than Saw.
ReplyDeleteOh by the way, that 80s TV show was called "Murder She Wrote". Haha....