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//**Eric Doyle and Oskari Akselinmaki**//

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//**Synopsis of Saw**//

Saw begins with a man named Adam waking up in a bathtub finding himself chained to plumbing pipes. He soon meets the man chained up on the other side of the old, dirty bathroom, Dr. Lawrence Gordon. When Lawrence finds the light switch and turns on the lights, they discover there is a dead corpse lying in the middle of the floor with a cassette player in one hand and a gun in the opposite hand. Lawrence and Adam both find tapes in their pockets labeled "Play Me". After retrieving the cassette player from the corpse, they learn from these tapes that Adam must escape the bathroom, while Lawrence is told that he must kill Adam before six o'clock, or else his wife and daughter will be killed and he will be left to die where he sits. Saws are found in the bathroom. After vigorously trying to saw through the chain, Lawrence realizes that the saws are not meant for the chains, but for their feet. Lawrence believes he knows about the madman that set this up. He talks about his previous murders and how they are not technically murders because he finds a way for victims to kill themselves. There is a series of flashbacks including his only known surviving victim. She was a heroin addict who feels as though her life has changed since her experience. A man named Zep is shown breaking into Lawrence's house and kidnapping his wife and daughter. Zep is someone who was present during one of Lawrence's speeches about John Kramer, a patient with terminal brain cancer. Zep is shown viewing Adam and Lawrence through a surveillance camera. A flashback shows Detective Tapp and his partner almost capturing Jigsaw, but Jigsaw is able to get away. Tapp is convinced that Lawrence is the killer because of planted evidence. Meanwhile in the bathroom, Lawrence discovers a cell phone that can only receive calls. Lawrence and Adam try to stage Adam's death but their plan is foiled. Lawrence and Adam start to recollect their abductions. Lawrence receives a call from Alison who warns him of Adam. Adam explains that he was hired by Tapp to investigate and photograph Lawrence. Arguing is heavy until Adam discovers a picture of Zep in Lawrence's house. They conclude that Zep is their abductor. After this conclusion is made, they realize that it is 6 o'clock. Allison and her daughter are able to break free from Zep. This gets the attention of Tapp and Zep kills him. Lawrence, not knowing what was going on, sawed off his foot and shot Adam. Zep came into the bathroom to kill Lawrence, but is beaten to death by Adam who did not suffer a fatal wound. Lawrence crawled away promising to get help for Adam. Adam searches for a key in Zep's body but only finds a tape. He discovers that Zep was just a pawn in Jigsaw's game. The corpse in the middle of the room slowly rises to it's feet and brushes off some makeup to reveal himself as John Kramer, the Jigsaw killer. After stunning Adam who reached for the gun, he says "Game Over" and seals the bathroom shut leaving Adam in there to die.

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//**Theme: Acting God- like**//

The person behind these sick games in Saw is called the Jigsaw killer. He appears to be a very evil, unethical person without any moral compass. And that is certainly what he is. By playing these sick games with people's lives, he shows us that he is a criminal who doesn't care if the "players" of his games will live or die. But, there is also another side of the story. No one can deny that what Jigsaw does is wrong but if you look deep enough you can see that by playing these games Jigsaw is trying to get people to appreciate their lives more. All of his victims have done something wrong in their lives and Jigsaw is punishing these people for those actions and trying to "cure" them. Jigsaw takes the moral laws, and the constitutional laws to his own hands and tries to do what he thinks in his little sick head is the right thing to do. He is the "director" of these games, the god who decides who deserves to go through this horrible experience, to go through this game which decides if the person is going to live or not.


 * //Theme: Karma//**

Karma is defined as one's inevitable destiny decided by their previous actions. Throughout the movie and the Saw series, Jigsaw has a reason for picking his victims. In Jigsaw's opinion, he picks victims that have done bad things in their life and he feels are ungrateful of their lives that are more fortunate than others. He wants to change people to make them appreciate the life that they have because his life will be cut short by brain cancer. Jigsaw feels their previous bad decisions in life make them deserve the game that he puts them through. The question is if they are strong enough to survive the game. Karma is the theme Jigsaw uses to pick his victims.

//John Kramer, the Jigsaw killer.//


 * //Theme: Jigsaw's Modus Operandi//**

Throughout Saw, Jigsaw has a specific M.O. or modus operandi. His M.O. is picking victims that he feels are ungrateful of their life and putting them through intense, sometimes fatal games. With every game, he puts the victims in very strange situations with harsh consequences. In the movie, it is noted that Jigsaw is technically not a murderer. He always gives his victims a way to survive, but most often he manipulates them into killing themselves trying to survive. Jigsaw keeps the same M.O. with every victims of his. Therefore, Jigsaw's Modus Operandi is a theme in the movie.


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