![]() ![]() The early “Saw” films famously ensured that all of the traps actually worked and could theoretically be built in real life. Kramer’s clever engineering often creates a horrifying marriage of form and function. If you’ve ever wondered what might have been produced if Rube Goldberg and Marquis de Sade hung out, look no further than a “Saw” trap. But the grotesque results often masks the creativity that goes into Kramer’s engineering. Over two decades and ten movies, Jigsaw and his proteges have robbed victims of their limbs, internal organs, fluids, and general dignity in a variety of traps. ![]() If they fail to perform his tasks in the impossibly short time windows that he gives them, Jigsaw feels that they have nobody but themselves to blame for their deaths. Instead he prefers to place his victims in elaborate DIY torture devices that force them to willingly inflict massive amounts of bodily harm on themselves in order to save their lives. While he’s probably responsible for more deaths, dismemberments, and general maimings than everyone reading this combined, he never holds the weapon himself. The man commonly known as Jigsaw is not a serial killer in any conventional sense of the word. It’s a statement that would elicit some pushback from his victims, but it feels like a fair phrasing of his perspective. In an early scene in “Saw X,” John Kramer (Tobin Bell) offers a succinct summary of how he chooses to spend his free time: “I help people enact positive change in their lives.” ![]()
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