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BAFFLING AND BIZARRE.
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Due to the treacherous nature of the traps, the rooms themselves seem powerful and alive. The vivid lighting gives the space rancid vibrancy, an identity. ) These abysses are feminine in nature, they are wet and the lighting used to film them is filtered as if through flesh. Therefore, the film suggests that the torture chambers are wombs in which the protagonists are reborn – or not. Paul is instructed to move through the tight space, and Mark must open the locked safe to achieve freedom; to achieve rebirth, the uterine seal must be broken.
Mark undergoes his trap (3). - Gordon meets someone illicitly. Possibly Carla, a medical student (referred to, not shown). 44 Saw - The crime team investigate the scene and find a torch with the finger prints of Dr Lawrence Gordon. The nickname ‘Jigsaw Killer’ begins to gain currency (not shown). - Gordon is treating John Kramer. Zep Hindle is an orderly on the ward (4). - Tapp interviews Gordon. They both watch Amanda’s testimony (5). - Tapp drives Gordon home, and intimates that Gordon is a suspect (11).
It is also a view that would dismiss the psychosexual anxieties that drive the genre, anxieties that are clearly explored within the first SAW film. As the SAW series progresses, the character of Amanda, played by Shawnee Smith, increases in significance within the overarching narrative and she becomes an icon. In the first film, her screen time is limited to just two cross-cut scenes. Nonetheless, these scenes – one visceral, the other harrowing – are standout sequences within the narrative, and are crucial to the film’s ideology.