The original story known as the Saw franchise has now ended according to it's latest title, Saw 3D (2010). From the very beginning, back in 2004, after watching part 1 with intrigue and amazement, and after confirming that it's sequel was just as qualified as the original, I never could wait for another entry next year.
Indeed, the modus operandi behind the Saw franchise has always been the strongest point for me to watch them, besides the clever twists. And then of course, the brutally crafted traps from each part. After giving it some thought once upon a time, I always classified each Saw movie as thriller first, horror second.
Because the movies really are generally speaking about living out your life, overcoming the mistakes you have done and be reborn, through unspeakable horror of symbolising traps. Controversial decisions have been made by the serie's characters, but more onto that later. Now I know that the franchise is largely despised by many types of persons, such as veteran horror fans, critics who only look at the acting parts, sequel whiners as in "a trilogy is enough"(well done on the daring decision to continue the story beyond Saw III!) and the retarded ones that labeled this as "torture porn". That's like combining golf with porn in a random movie and call it a golf porn movie. Really's because that's what it's about apparently, EXCEPT there is no porn to be found in the Saw movies! No one jacks off to these traps. Reminds me of another moronic quote, ah yes, "Get a life", but enough about humanity's unstoppable word diseases that have been accepted into society.
But the movies never really lowered my interest for them, even if Saw V is the weakest one, they all have several or more connections towards each other, and because of that the whole plot was well thought out in most cases. And we have been through a lot actually, just try out a Saw marathon sometime, will you be able to keep up with the clues, the motivations for each character, the deadly victims and their traps and then be able to talk about plot holes? Sure, there are certainly plot holes, just look at the associated Saw forum boards on the internet, but imaginations do not limit ourselves towards thinking about the circumstances of each scene hmm? What I mean is that sometimes the writers would not be able to think about every alternate solution towards the situation, and I can see why.
Why? Because have you seen some of these traps? And what the human mind and Trial and Error bring to the table considering them? That's right, some of these characters were panicking so much, that is why they kept making mistakes even when they were being tested. Just to bring out an example, Bobby could had used his jeans to lessen the damage in his final test, but consider then that you were him himself, and you've just been through a twisted revival sequence, listening carefully each time to what Billy the doll had to say regarding instructions, and then you see your wife screaming in front of you, and the time keeps ticking. Yeah, consider that just for a moment.
The serie has seen plenty of interesting characters in my opinion. John Kramer, otherwise known as Jigsaw was of course the best character, especially when listening to him in Saw II, my personal favorite. And you know what? It was a good decision by the writers to diverse Jigsaw's accomplices so much from each other. Amanda was a short living one who messed up all of her own designed traps(if I remember clearly) and had even failed her own test in Saw III, Hoffman was on a personal ruthless crusade to judge everyone be it with Jigsaw's methods or by his own, murdering behaviour, in order to never get caught. I believe he really was ready to go on a massacre after killing Jill and already leaving a bloodbath behind in both Saw VI and 3D(by the way, I prefer to call it VII or 7), all because of his sister's death.
And then there is the one person shrouded the most in mystery after being one of the earliest survivors of Jigsaw. Dr.Gordon lives. The truth is out. And in his final scenes in Saw 3D, it is clear that Jigsaw's legacy will live, beyond the story, as he and his fellow "pig men" show us that the copycats won't die as long as the motivation for doing this madness exists. They will try to assimilate him and his ideals as precise as possible. He ends the story just in time, and we see flashbacks of confirmed theories that the doctor was in fact helping Jigsaw in medical courses all along.
The majority of people might have disliked this all, but I am sure that this era of torture will be missed, primarily because of it's storyline few have acknowledged to be so fascinating throughout the whole deal. It will never be a series for everyone however, knowing that we are dealing with an extreme bloody series with plenty of suspense, controversial moments, mind blowing twists, creepy dolls and a great story most of all. It is definitely, definitely my favorite horror series.
Hello Zepp. Goodbye Dr.Gordon.
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