The Saw series brought us one of the most ferison character in the horror movie, John Kramer. He was well known as a serial killer, the so called “games” put people in life depended situation. This will bring the actual humanility in the test and see if they truly appreciate the life they have. This is also why John Kramer become the Jigsaw killer. He wants to teach people a lesson. For those who have no appreciation for the life they had. Deep inside what motivated him is the idea of saving the human kind. People have a healthy body, a family and people they love, when they ever did anything wrong, the society gave them a second chance, but they never learn. They do drugs, cut their own body, and attempted to suicide. That’s why John Kramer was trying to teach them a lesson. And the best way for them to learn is by the share of blood. Only at the despaired situation, they will make to choice to either just let go and die, or choose to live and actually pay the price. What my research focus on the psychological for the serial killer. The research will be important for my adaption. My adaptation is going to be from Jigsaw’s successor, Dr. Lawrence Gordon. He doesn’t have much scenes from the movie. But as he was working with Jigsaw. His perspective changed as he know more about the reason behind Kramer’s actions and transform from a vitcom to the only successor of jigsaw.
“Aston, James, and John Walliss, eds.: To See the Saw Movies: Essays on Torture Porn and Post-9/11 Horror”*This article discusses and solving each of the question that relate the movie to the 21th century. It explains the specific principle of Jigsaw’s trap and how does each of it work. The detail of the traps and the consequences (the harm) it could bring planted what makes us fear in the society these days.
“They view the series as a telling and instructive outgrowth of the millennial moment: "the horror film in general, and the Saw films in particular, offer audiences opportunities to confront, understand and possibly work through the traumatic nature of a post-9/11 America" (Aston & Walliss qtd, in Wandless 515).”
Let’s put it this way, what scares people the most is not getting killed, is losing freedom. You have to play by the rule if you want to survive. Jigsaw don’t kill you, he never do it by his own hand. You pick your own path, what you do make the decision between life and death.
“Robert D. Keppel: consulting detective”*
The best way to know a serial killer is to speak with him face to face and find out. The more time you spent with them. You will get to know them. And understand the psychological motivation for these people. There is always a need to fill by killing.
“For example, Bundy told Keppel that the best way to interview a serial killer was to leave aside all judgment. The interviewer who could understand that for the killer some murders were "okay" because they satisfied a need was the person best poised to receive the most detailed and intimate information. "And that's the level of interview a good investigator should be able to have with a suspect," Keppel later wrote.” (55)
These serial killers always thinks that their work is important, and it’s right. According to they knowledge, they never made mistakes, it’s the society that is wrong. Just like Jigsaw, he thinks that what people do is wrong, they had a chance of a good life but they don’t value what they have. So this is why understand the psychology of them is key to know them better.
“America's scariest home videos: serial killers and reality television”*
Today, the society view serial killer differently. They don’t seems like symbol of fear anymore. People actually make TV shows for them. The serial killer become an element of entertainment. Everything feels less elevent when we watch it in the TV. This also explain why people become less scared of these killer.
“Although television and fairy tales are at opposite ends of the historical continuum of popular culture, they address many of the same audience concerns. Both deal with the most common anxieties of their dominant audience--the threat of violence--as well as with the most common resolution of problems--the initiation of revenge. Because we have displaced so much of our cultic violence onto the television screen, we might do well to recall just how much violence inheres in the stories of our youth. (233)”
All these violents, all these has been import into these TV shows. They get in to the mind easily.
“"I've never murdered anyone in my life. The decisions are up to them.": ethical guidance and cultural pessimism in the Saw series”*
Like it was mentioned in the previous passage. The most fearson fact in this society is not only your life is threatened. Also that Jigsaw want you to make the choice between life and death.
“In particular, we will situate our argument within Bendle's (2005, 4) claim that popular culture, echoing wider shifts within American culture, has witnessed a movement from what he terms a Promethean view of human nature that sees human beings as able to be improved, to a more pessimistic, Augustinian view emphasizing "human sinfulness and weakness ... a dystopian vision ... anti-humanism ... [and] conservatism." We will locate the Saw films within this cultural trajectory, in particular focusing on the "games" and the use of torture and how these rituals disturb a clear moral and ethical vision as the franchise moves unsteadily between conservative and liberal ideologies.”
The society is making it’s us all lazy and less responsible for their own choice. To understand and learn what is acturly important. Blood must be shared. That’s why the there is people that look up to Jigsaw and endorse his work.
“Jigsaw's Real Killer and Twist Ending Explained”*
Jigsaw is an everlast legend. Even the story for John Kramer has ended. But there is still people that carry his work after he died. These young Jigsaws believes in his work but also they are complete different individual not like John Kramer. So there is not always the same spirit carrys in the game. Which make it less like a test, more about just turtle people for fun.
“Each film deepened the lore of the Jigsaw Killer - real name John Kramer - his disciples and corrupted moral ethos, typically topping it all off with a shocking rug-pull.” (1)