Jacobean Drama-Saw

For this particular assignment I chose a favorite movie series of mine Saw.

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The premise of the saw movie is a game, a very sick game. This game is the creation of a serial killer named Jigsaw. The whole movie is about the torture that Jigsaw forces people through such as in the film that I have posted above. In one of the victim of Jigsaw’s games is a girl named Amanda. On her head is a mask which is hooked onto her lower jaw, there is a timer and if show doesn’t unlock the mask before the time runs out, her lower jaw will be ripped wide open. The key to that mask is however is in the digestive tract of her cell mate who is paralyzed on the other side of the room. She lives however her cell mate does not. The entire premise of Jigsaws game is to have someone do the killing for him. His reasoning is that most people are ungrateful to be alive however the person who survives his game wont be.

The movie is Super Jacobean in my opinion. It’s cynical like the way we see it in the Duchess of Malfi. We see most of the killing done in the hands of Bosolo however it’s usually under someone else’s request. Jigsaw is the game master, he will set up the game in a way that someone must die. Another very Jacobean aspect of Saw is the sheer amount of gore in it. In particular, one of the main puzzles Jigsaw sets up is he has 2 guys saw off their own ankles with a rusty saw. The concept Jigsaw provides is something that I really feel is Jacobean. I feel like it’s extremely morally wrong to put someone through murder and near death to prove to them that they should be grateful about life.