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''Saw IV'' is a 2007 Canadian-American〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BFI Film & TV Database - Saw IV )〕 horror film and the fourth installment of the ''Saw'' franchise. It was directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and written by newcomers Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan, and Thomas Fenton. It stars Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Scott Patterson, Betsy Russell, Lyriq Bent, Justin Louis, and Donnie Wahlberg. The film was released in North America on October 26, 2007. The film continues the story of the Jigsaw Killer's obsession with teaching people the value of their lives. Despite Jigsaw being killed in the last installment, the film focuses on his ability to manipulate people into continuing his work. The story follows Lieutenant Daniel Rigg being put through a series of tests in order to try and let go of his obsession with saving everyone, whilst at the same time attempting to save his partner. ==Plot== During John Kramer's autopsy, a wax-coated microcassette is found in his stomach. Detective Mark Hoffman is called in and learns from it that he will still be tested and, despite Kramer's death, the games will continue. In a mausoleum, two men awaken chained at the neck to a winch. One's eyes are sewn shut, as is the other's mouth, making communication impossible. In a blind panic, the blinded man activates the winch and attacks the muted man, who kills him and frees himself with the key on the other collar. Lieutenant Daniel Rigg's SWAT team discovers Allison Kerry's body four days after her death. Hoffman warns Rigg for breaking through an unsecured door to reach her. The scene is also investigated by Kerry's contacts, FBI Agents Peter Strahm and Lindsey Perez, who received a key and message from her. Strahm states that Kerry was killed by an unknown accomplice, noting Kramer's and Amanda Young's physical limitations, and becomes suspicious of Rigg, who has developed an obsession with saving people following Eric Matthews' disappearance. That night, Rigg is attacked in his home and wakes up in his bathroom. A videotape shows him that Matthews is alive and has ninety minutes to save himself, with Hoffman's life also at risk. Meanwhile, he must undergo his own tests to face and overcome his obsession. The detectives are soon shown to be set at each end of a large seesaw: Matthews is held atop an ice block by a chain noose and Hoffman is strapped to a chair with electrodes at his feet. If Matthews slips or jumps, both will die. A man later arrives to oversee the game. Rigg's first test involves a pimp, Brenda, who is bound to a chair in his living room. He is urged to walk away, but he accidentally starts the trap by removing her gag, which slowly tears her scalp. He frees her, but kills her in self-defense when she attacks him with a knife, having been told by tape that Rigg would arrest her if she didn't kill him. The agents investigate the scene and find a clue that leads to Jill Tuck, Kramer's ex-wife, who is brought to the station for questioning. Though tight-lipped, she reveals that Kramer was a civil engineer involved with property development, while she ran a clinic to help drug addicts. They were expecting a son, named Gideon after his first project, but she miscarried after seven months when Cecil Adams, an addict, slammed a door into her stomach while robbing her clinic. More flashbacks reveal how Cecil later became the subject of Jigsaw's very first test and got killed in it. For his next test, Rigg enters a motel and is instructed to abduct the owner, Ivan Landsness, and put him in a prearranged trap in one of the rooms. After finding photo and video evidence that Landsness is a serial rapist, Rigg furiously forces him into the trap and leaves after handing him two controllers. Landsness must blind both of his eyes with blades, but he blinds only one eye before the timer expires and is dismembered. The agents learn that the room was rented out to a lawyer named Art Blank, who vanished two weeks ago. Blank, the survivor of the mausoleum trap, is revealed to be the man overseeing the game when he prevents Matthews from jumping and gives him a gun. The third test leads Rigg to a school where he once assaulted a man, Rex, accused of domestic abuse. He and his wife, Morgan, awaken locked in a harness and impaled by spikes, which pass through vital points in his body but non-vital points of hers. By the time Rigg arrives, Rex has died and Morgan has removed all but one spike and passed out from shock. She awakens and Rigg gives her the key to her harness and tells her to free herself. He finds the location of his final test and pulls the fire alarm as he leaves. The agents learn at the scene that all three victims, and Jill, were Blank's clients. They find a puppet with a tape recorder in another room and a cryptic message is played for Perez before the puppet's face explodes, critically injuring her. Strahm has her hospitalized and furiously resumes questioning Jill, now convinced Blank is the accomplice. He connects her story and a prior clue to the Gideon Meatpacking Plant, the location of Rigg's final test. Strahm arrives after Rigg and ends up on the path to the sickroom. He unlocks it with Kerry's key and finds Jeff, whom he shoots in self-defense when Jeff pulls a gun on him. Meanwhile, Blank pulls out a device which can be used to free them when the timer expires. If he uses it before then, a pair of pincers will sever his spine. Rigg finds them and is shot by Matthews as he breaks into the room with one second left, releasing two overhead ice blocks which swing down and crush Matthews' head, killing him. Rigg shoots Blank, believing him responsible, and learns from the tape recorder that his interference caused Matthews' death. Hoffman, the actual accomplice, releases himself from the chair and leaves Rigg to bleed to death. He seals Strahm in the sickroom before leaving the plant. The scene then cuts to Kramer's autopsy, which took place after the events of the film. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Saw IV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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