This my analysis of Saw V's opening sequence

SAW V

In Saw 5 a movie starts off with a man waking up in a dark room, shortly after his awakening he realises that he’s tied up to some sort of a concrete “bed”. He straggles and screams in panic as he tries to set himself free. At first there’s a close-up on his face to keep this feeling of mystery and edginess. Camera than zooms out to show us the whole room, this enables the audience to see what kind of the situation he’s into. During he’s struggle a TV comes on displaying some sort of a freaky puppet which by the way talks to him. We are straight away positioned to dislike the puppet and to be scared of it, this positions the audience to immediately think that Seth (a tied up man) is a victim of some sort of a freakish monster. A puppet than explains to Seth why he’s in this situation and what he has to do to set himself free, it gives him a challenge. During the sequence the music is quite quick and upbeat, to reflect the feeling of panic and struggle. Even though Seth is in an empty and isolated place he still screams for help. During the puppets “speech” a pendulum is revealed, and the situation is then clearly explained to the audience, in 30 seconds a pendulum will drop slicing Seth in half, unless he doesn’t do what he’s instructed to do. In the sequence there’s a number of action matches between Seth and the TV. In the first sequence Seth is being represented as being a victim of Jigsaw, movie’s torture mastermind. The puppet is represented as being the tool between jigsaw and the victim. I think the first sequence is significant to the movie because later on we find out that the opening sequence was constructed to completely mislead us. When the pendulum is put in motion the music completely stops and there’s only sound of the pendulum swinging and Seth screaming. As the opening sequence starts we are straight away lead to believe that the whole movie will be a gory massacre, and after short while we realise that it is a bloody massacre. The think I like about this movie, it is even significant in the first scene is that this movie isn’t just about mindless violence, people are put in these situations for a reason and because of what they done.