Last night, I watched Saw 2 for the 2nd time. I was quite disturbed the first time I watched it, and I felt even more disturbed after watching it for the 2nd time. Its not the gory scenes that disgust me(although they do but to a lesser extent), but the statement that "those who do not appreciate life, do not deserve life".
Sad to say, humans often start truly appreciating things at the very moment those things are taken away from them. I do not deny i am one of them. Are the mundane things of life worth complaining compared to the fact that we are still alive? We are still breathing, eating and enjoying life. Why do people in this region of the world complain so much about life when compared to others who are in much worse conditions? The blessings that we have, we always took it for granted and even expect more good things to come in the future. So, there is some truth in that statement.
But then again, who has the right to condemn other people unworthy of the lives they live? Who has the right to bring judgement? Therefore, can we just the the lives of other people who abused their lives and did not appreciate their own life? No, I don't think so. In this age, the trend nowadays is to advocate human rights. So, it is common today to think that "our life is our own, and we live the way we want to, as long as it does not infringe the rights of others and does not hurt others". It is assumed that is the underlying moral principle in many societies today.
So, this brings us back to the movie again. So, this guy who claims to have encountered death experienced rebirth and it brings new meaning in his life. So he spents the rest of his limited life studying the reactions and survival instincts of people by placing them in life and death situations where they have to sacrifice something(like gorging out our own eyeball, or gorging out your friend's eyeball) in order to survive. So, literary, we watched how people kill each other just to survive a little longer. Of course, movies cannot be the true portrayal of human nature but...it gives us an idea of how we might react in a "worst case senario". So that is how he ends the lives of his "test subjects", condemning them unworthy of the lives they possess. So, life is precious and people are prepared to sacrifice something in order to live, which is something called "survival instincts".
Look, I am no movie critic. The movie is entertaining, the plot is engaging with an unexpected twist at the end, the characters were well developed, the scenes very quite gory. Its just the theme of the movie that bothers me. So, this is just an opinion, my own personal views on the issue.
God created man, in order that man might live, not merely surviving, but living life to the fullest. But only God alone, not other man(especially the guy in saw 2), has the right to judge those who don't deserve live. This is because it is God who gave us life.
Our duty is just to live out our life.
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