Posted on 10/24/2009 5:45:01 PM PDT by Ballygrl
Who would've thought the horror movie series I love would go political on me.
I'm not going to spoil the movie, so I'll just tell you the political message of it.
So the movie opens up and we see 2 people who are in cells and they're across from 1 another, Jigsaw comes on and he starts his speech, he says that they're PREDATORY LENDORS who take advantage of people who would never be able to pay back their loans. I turn my head to the right and whisper to hubby "did he just say predatory lenders" hubby smirks and says "yes they did", at this point I'm thinking OK, I'm going to be prepared and jot down a note to myself about the scene, I don't have paper so I see the box of Whoppers that I got for $1 at the concession stand with a coupon they gave me, so I dump the Whoppers out and jot down info.
So we go to scene 2 now, it's set at an Insurance Company and you hear them talking about PRE-EXISTING conditions, I look at hubby and say "pre-existing conditions"? he says yes and he says write that down (LOL, he's not political at all). Then we hear someone talking about pre-existing conditions and people being denied insurance. Next thing you know we see a patient talking to, I guess a Supervisor, and he wants to know why his insurance was cancelled, they said it was cancelled because 20 years ago he had surgery on a benign tumor on his jaw, the scar tissue from that caused gum disease, and the gum disease caused his heart disease. They said the tumor should've been disclosed. The man denied his insurance.
Just a reminder, this is supposed to be a horror movie, and since I've seen the previous 5 I assumed it wouldn't be political.
Then for a few minutes we see the investigation into the 1 scene.
Then we get to the maze of killing scenes. So who is the guy who has to get through each part of the maze alive to eventually be free? the Insurance Company guy who denied the sick mans insurance. All the people in the maze either work with the guy or who have some other knowledge about him.
The 1st part of the maze I can't give away, but it was politically correct.
We get to the 2nd part of the maze and the insurance guy has to choose between 2 employees, 1 is a single man with no family and the 2nd is a middle aged woman who has a husband and family but has a history of diabetes in the family. He has to choose which 1 to save.
We have another scene that I didn't see as politically correct.
Then another, the same thing, didn't see the political correctness.
At some point we see Jigsaw and he tells him why he's doing this. Jigsaw says this, that it's not the Doctor's making life or death choices, it's not the Government making life or death choices, it's the INSURANCE COMPANY making life or death choices! I would get pretty ticked off if I worked in the insurance industry and saw this movie, they were making them the villains. And yes, I flashed back to a month ago when Obama was making them into villains.
I can't tell you how disappointed I was with the message of this movie. IMO it was meant to anger the average person who doesn't pay attention to politics and who blames the rich guy and corporations for all their problems.
The movie itself as far as the methods of taking care of people via archaic machinery, I'd give it 4 stars.
But the shoving down my throat of an agenda by Hollywood and unfairly putting out a message to those who have no idea what's going on? I give it 0 stars!
Darn movie ticked me off like you wouldn't believe. If I know a movie is going to preach to me beforehand then I make a decision to see it or not, but to come out of the blue like this with a political message is just wrong.
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