"i want to play a game."

found the i-net room in camp.
yay.
the uip here is coming to an end, thank god. this whole week so far has been nothing but talks and lectures. i've sat on that damn chair in the lecture room so frickin long each day it probably has my dna imprinted on it. i don't know what it is about officers that instills in them such a perverse urge to yap relentlessly about the same old subjects in the same old monotone with the same old jokes. the army already is as interesting as a generic pile of cow dung. how much can there be said about bullshit?!
bleah.
at least they do leave us alone when they do.
watched SAW with dennis during our night out yesterday. despite the reviews i've been reading, i found it rather impressive heh. never trust critics in singapore, anyway, they just about have no idea what the fuck they're blabbering about.


"i want to play a game."
i don't think he means tetris, heh.
what do you call someone who murders people by letting them kill themselves, never having to get his own hands dirty? a psycho, a killer, a genius? sometimes the line between these blur.
SAW may be a horror flick and a whodunnit, but the who, how, what and why in this film are sometimes glazed over. i tend to think thats cos it doesn't matter. it is more concerned about other themes, i feel.
the film delves into a moral gray area, one that most people would really rather not dwell in. would you kill someone else to save youself? to save your loved ones? what is the greater good, or the lesser evil? how would you value your own worth against that of another person, how would you judge yourself or him?
you couldn't judge, i'd say. i am worthless, and i have no right to judge. but that doesn't mean i'd choose to just die and let the other live.
is it still a moral dilemma if one does ultimately make a critical choice and come out of it alive?

and yeah, it does have a powerful twist at the movie's end. personally, i am usually a hard critic of plot twists. ever since m night shyamalan's Sixth Sense, so many films have been trying to pull off the most-unexpected-twist-of-the-century. Most of them have resulted in pathetic mindfucks, poorly setup and usually with very little structure relevance to the story. even shyamalan's recent films seem to have a plot twisted squeezed just for the sake of having one.
SAW, however, clearly puts forth its story and themes in the foreground. The twist is well-conceived, subtly weaved within the scenes and ultimately serves as the icing on a good cake, rather than a cream overload with no substance.
i'm lauding this film quite a bit heh. in moderation i'd really say that while this film is truly well made, it is not the best of its genre. To me, Se7en will forever be a classic example of great filmmaking- strong and complete plot, acting and dialogue, powerful themes and image system, and one of the best endings i've seen in a movie. SAW still has certain minor plot loopholes, and less-defined themes. but thats not taking anything away from it.