Marion Lichty: Random #4

Saw is a series of seven movies about a serial killer named Jigsaw.  Jigsaw finds people, who have done the wrong, and puts them in some sort of contraption, that will either scar them for life or kill them depending on the individuals themselves.  Throughout the different movies, Jigsaw focuses on a certain group of people that need to pay for their actions.  In the first movie of Saw, Adam is trapped in a room with Dr. Gordon.  Adam spies on people for a living destroying their lives, and Dr. Gordon treats patients badly not caring about the individual.   Thus, Jigsaw is punishing them for not valuing human life.  In Saw V, five people and a chain of events cost 8 people their lives.  So these five people are put in a chain of traps and they must think differently in order to survive.  So if they had listened to the words of the serial killer, they would have realized all they needed to do was work together and help one another and all five people would have survived.  In addition to the separate movies, the plots intertwine along with the characters of the different films.

Saw is quite a graphic, dark movie; however, it does cover the theme of sins and punishments.  Jigsaw believes that the traps he creates will change an individual’s way of thinking and will make those individual repent for the wrong they have done.  In Saw V, those people’s greed and selfishness caused 8 people to die.  Jigsaw warns the people to change their way of thinking, basically to think of other people, and the traps eventually teach them that.  Hence, the Saw series shows a disturbed way of forcing people to repent or pay for their sins.