ULOGS #8 : REVIEW FILM TODAY : SAW PART 5

a-alice (68)in #ulogs • 6 years ago

After four appearances, Saw has been widely considered an indispensable item on Halloween every year. With great content, unique ideas and unbelievable ending,.
Saw V is a continuation of the previous four, so the plot and characters will be less varied, looking through the cast is still the familiar people as Jigsaw, Amanda, Hoffman, Strahm, Jill ...
Back in Saw 4, we realized that Hoffman was "not following the rules" but was not as challenged as Amanda, the tape found in the stomach. Jigsaw said clearly that Hoffman would surely have to undergo a test that someone replaced him. Jigsaw is dead but work will continue.

Who is Jill?

Jigsaw's ex-girlfriend, she and Jigsaw had a child but she got miscarried.
This character appears in part 3 of some of Jigsaw's reminiscent scenes and is officially revealed in Part 4. In Part 4, she has only one mission to inspect Strahm interrogatively.

Who is the Rigg inspector?

It's a great inspector, he's always been obsessed with victims. He always wants to save them. Jigsaw puts Rigg into the trap. His task is to save them.However, he was killed by Hoffman.

Content part 5

Convicted murderer Seth Baxter wakes up chained to a table beneath a pendulum blade. A videotape informs him that he can release himself by crushing his hands between two presses. He does so, but the blade still swings down and cuts him in half as someone watches through a hole in the wall.

In the meatpacking plant, FBI Agent Peter Strahm guns down Jeff Denlon and is locked in the sickroom. He discovers a hidden exit and a microcassette recorder, which urges him to stay in the sickroom, but he ignores it and is attacked in the tunnel by someone in a pig-mask. He wakes up with his head sealed in a box being filled with water, but survives by performing a tracheotomy with his pen. Outside, Detective Mark Hoffman delivers Corbett Denlon to the police and claims they are the only survivors, but is shocked when Strahm is brought out alive as well.

During a press conference, Hoffman is promoted to detective lieutenant and credited with closing the case. He finds a note in his office that reads "I know who you are" and learns of Lindsey Perez's death while taking Strahm's phone. At the hospital, Strahm tells Hoffman that Perez's last words were his name, and questions how he escaped the plant. Strahm is also visited by his boss, Dan Erickson, who puts him on medical leave. Now suspicious of Hoffman and determined to piece together his involvement with Jigsaw, Strahm takes case files of past victims and begins researching them on his own.

In an underground room, five people awaken with collars connected to mounted blades locked around their necks, the keys to which are in individual glass boxes across the room. A videotape claims that all five of them are connected and implores them to "do the opposite" of their instincts throughout the game. They are also told to solve the puzzles and leave the rooms before the timer runs out or the jars of explosives in each corner of the rooms will explode. Mallick, an arsonist, activates the timer and everyone must reach for their key, but the wires are connected to the other participants and so they must go one at a time. Everyone manages to reach their keys except for Ashley, a former fire inspector, who is decapitated when the collars retract. The four proceed to the next room, where they learn that the overhead jars contain keys to three bomb shelters. Charles, an investigative journalist, strikes Mallick and begins smashing the jars one by one. Brit, a real estate vice president, and Luba, a city planner, each find a key and Charles takes Mallick's, only to be struck by Luba and left to die when the bombs detonate. In the third room, five short cables must be connected to a full bathtub to unlock the door. They deduce that someone will have to stay in the bathtub while the other two escape so Luba attacks Mallick to use his body to close the circuits, but Brit stabs her and they manage to open the door. In the fourth room, Mallick and Brit find a machine fitted with five circular saws and a beaker requiring ten pints of blood to open the door. Brit tries to use the keys from the first room to open the door but sees all the keys are the same, Mallick notes the five armholes and they realise that all five of them were meant to work together to survive the game. In the first room, they could have used the keys on each other to unlock the collars, in the second room the bomb shelters were big enough for more than one person and in the third room they all needed to hold the cables and put their hand in the water to open the door. Brit also works out their connection: they were all involved with a building fire that killed eight people. With no other options, they saw their arms to provide the blood.

Meanwhile, Strahm learns that Baxter killed Hoffman's sister, and was released from prison on a technicality. As revenge, Hoffman abducted and killed Baxter, using the pendulum trap to frame Jigsaw. It is revealed through flashbacks that he was later abducted by John Kramer, who blackmailed Hoffman into working with him. They set up most of the games together, with Hoffman planting Lawrence Gordon's penlight and providing the police files for the nerve gas house victims. Strahm realizes in the end that everyone was meant to die in the plant except for Corbett and Hoffman, who would appear to be a hero. His activities soon draw Erickson's worry, which is further fueled when Jill, who received a box and a videotape from Kramer's will, approaches Erickson and claims Strahm is stalking her. After Hoffman calls Erickson to tell him about Strahm's theory of a second accomplice, Erickson puts a tracker on Strahm's phone.

Erickson follows the tracker to the observation room and finds the phone and his own personnel file, which were planted by Hoffman. He also finds Brit, who managed to crawl from the fourth room after Mallick passed out from blood loss. Erickson calls for medical attention for the victims, and puts out an all-points bulletin on Strahm, who follows Hoffman to the renovated nerve gas house, and finds an underground room containing a clear box filled with ice cubes. Hoffman's tape urges Strahm to enter the box, but he stops it short and ambushes Hoffman. After a brief struggle he seals Hoffman in the box, which seals the room's exit. Hoffman indicates the tape, which warns Strahm that if he does not enter the box he will die while Hoffman will inherit Jigsaw's legacy. The box is safely lowered into the floor as the walls close in on Strahm, who unsuccessfully attempts to escape through the ceiling grid, and is crushed to death.

Traps in Saw 5

The Pendulum

The victim was tied up on a stone table and a huge blade would slowly lower, chopping the abdomen of the dead to death. The only way to prevent it is to put two hands on the machine next to them to crush the hand. A trap is too horrible and painful so there is almost no way to fix it except to wait for death.

Cube trap and Trap coffins

Inspector Strahm was initially trapped in a water-trap, he suffocated. He took a nail stab into his windpipe.

When he finds out that Hoffman is a murderer, he immediately exposes Hoffman. But Hoffman tricked him. He was sandwiched between two walls. Death is too painful: (After death, he was slandered by Hoffman as a murderer.) People thought Strahm was a villain.