So on Monday I finished the Saw series until I can get a hold of Saw 3D. I think I’ve seen enough blood, guts and complicated machinery for awhile and feel the need to counter-balance it with light-hearted rom coms. Except I hate rom coms … zom rom coms on the other hand (10 cool points if you can name 2). But never mind the future, we should live in the now and so I’ll get started. John would be proud…
Saw 6 is different from the previous 5 because it increases the level of gore while bringing in new elements that
slap the audience silly and stun them senseless while making us see that these are bad people. “We already know they are bad people because they’re there!” I hear you say, but are they? Lets look at 1 or 2 people that I can remember and that fit my point: my favourite girl Amanda, what did she do wrong? Drugs – they’re bad but enough to possibly loose you’re life over? Maybe. She cut herself – she was sad but enough to have your jaw ripped apart? A little extreme. She doesn’t seem like a bad person to me but maybe my small amount of affection clouds my judgement. Lets look at … Lieutenant Riggs from Saw 4. He was tested, although not through physical traps like the others but tested never-the-less, to see if he would basically follow Jigsaw’s game in order to save Eric Matthews and Hoffman. Is he a bad person? Kinda, he killed the woman and the beginning although she did attack him, he also made that fat man lie on the bed and strapped him in so he had to choose between getting his eyes poked out or having his limbs ripped off. These people weren’t tested because they had done bad things to other people, more that they weren’t living their lives the best way they could in Jigsaw’s mind. However, the people in Saw 6 are bad people.
slap the audience silly and stun them senseless while making us see that these are bad people. “We already know they are bad people because they’re there!” I hear you say, but are they? Lets look at 1 or 2 people that I can remember and that fit my point: my favourite girl Amanda, what did she do wrong? Drugs – they’re bad but enough to possibly loose you’re life over? Maybe. She cut herself – she was sad but enough to have your jaw ripped apart? A little extreme. She doesn’t seem like a bad person to me but maybe my small amount of affection clouds my judgement. Lets look at … Lieutenant Riggs from Saw 4. He was tested, although not through physical traps like the others but tested never-the-less, to see if he would basically follow Jigsaw’s game in order to save Eric Matthews and Hoffman. Is he a bad person? Kinda, he killed the woman and the beginning although she did attack him, he also made that fat man lie on the bed and strapped him in so he had to choose between getting his eyes poked out or having his limbs ripped off. These people weren’t tested because they had done bad things to other people, more that they weren’t living their lives the best way they could in Jigsaw’s mind. However, the people in Saw 6 are bad people.
Saw 6 also switches up the narrative a little bit because instead of just having 1 or a few people go through the film only to die at the end which makes them unique to that movie as well as seeing Jigsaw and whatever accomplice he’s got, we see 3 stories being played out. The first is following William Easton, a bad man who basically makes the decision whether someone lives or dies to do with their insurance. He is an asshole right from the beginning and frankly, I didn’t care that his right side got squished but what was sad at Hank/Janitor getting killed 
. Anway, we follow Willy as he goes through 4 tests that award him with 1 key each which unlocks the explosives around his wrists and ankles. To get these keys, Will has to make choices whether someone lives or dies. First time it’s between him and the Janitor, which can hold their breath the longest because if you breath in, the clamps around your waist close in. Forget diets, you wanna look thin, stand in between these and you’ll be flat (and/or dead) in a matter of seconds. The second test is Jigsaw’s way of testing Easton’s formula in determining who lives and who gets their bucket kicked into the afterlife; a healthy file clerk who has no family and is generally a bit of a loner (by the formula, he should be the one to live) or the lovely old biddy who is Willy’s secretary, has family but is ill. This scene had me rooting for Will’s heart and it prevailed, much to the disappointment of the guy who got hanged with barbed wire … Sorry mate Anyway, 3rd task = William has to lead a little lady through a steamy maze (not like a sauna, like putting your face over a boiling kettle. Anna why did you do that? Steam doesn’t smell of anything – it’s water) in under a certain time or the little lady gets a bolt through her brain. But it’s never that simple, at certain parts there is steam blocking the path so dear old Willy must turn a switch and direct the steam … into his face! Or arm at one point I think but never mind, he must take the pain from the lady and put it on himself! This heroic effort is completely pointless in retrospect because the key to the bolt firing mechanism is in Willy’s side and he ain’t letting any woman near him with a mini circular saw so she dies. His final task is choosing which 4 of his 6 co-workers he is going to kill with a shotgun. Now, lets be serious for a moment. I know that is difficult but honestly, I felt sad at the 
end of this scene. I URGE YOU TO WATCH IT. I won’t go into detail but it is a good scene. At the end when we think everyone is either dead or safe from the tests … good old Willy meets up with his wife – an annoying reporter lady that was going to get hurt one day or another – and, here’s the best part, the wife and son of one of the patients Willy refused help for! Imagine it, spending an hour of your life, battling through tests where you choose whether or not to kill someone for someone else and then when you think you’ve done … your life is in the hands of the loved ones of someone you could have saved. BUMMER. So, right about now I let out a pity sigh and whispered “you’re $!£(^& mate” as the SPOILER son takes the lever, chooses die, and a rack full of little knives comes crashing down into the back of William, which then AS IF IT COULDN’T GET ANY WORSE!!!! fills with corrosive acid which disintegrates his body… So sad … so sad … But awesome to watch 
Anyway, after that unplanned essay, I was going to quickly mention that the other 2 narratives are following Jill, John’s ex-wife and Hoffman. We as the audience don’t really know anything about this shiny brown eyed woman and so there are quite a few questions floating around our minds, such as what was in the box John left her? (SPOILER 6 envelopes, 5 containing info on the people needed for the above traps, the last being about the bastard of the film, my least favourite guy – Hoffman (yay *sarcasm alert*) OOH! And they were supposed to be working together :O ) What secrets is she possessing? Will Hoffman kill her? So much intrigue…
The last narrative is about the aforementioned assholio numero uno – Hoffman. Will he get caught by the police considering they are starting to catch him? Will he kill them? (SPOILER – yeah. There were some inconsistencies to do with tapes and stuff between the traps set by Jigsaw and the ones set by Hoffman, the voice on the tape of Seth, who killed Hoffman’s sister, wasn’t the same as Jigsaw’s and so when the audio gets played with by a tech woman, it turns out to be Hoffman’s voice. To which he slices Erickson’s neck (ew), grabs the poor defenceless tech lady and holds her in front of him so he doesn’t get shot by Perez, who then gets stabbed lots of times. What a lovely man. Lastly, what will happen to Hoffman?…
The greatest part of the film for me was right at the end when we see what the note said that made Amanda cry all those films ago right before she went and shot Doctor Lynn, and the surprise return of Jill. It was a blackmailing Amanda into doing what Hoffman wanted or he would tell John that Amanda was there that night when Jill got smacked by a door and so lost her baby Hoffman sees the note on the desk, strikes a confused face and suddenly gets tased by Jill (yay! )
Hoffman sees the note on the desk, strikes a confused face and suddenly gets tased by Jill (yay! )Now listen carefully, cos I love this part. If you’ve seen the other films you will have noticed that no trap is used twice right? Well,
that very famous “Reverse Bear Trap” is back that was modelled by Amanda in Saw 1 and Hoffman gets to be the new model!! Frankly I think Amanda wore it better but I’d prefer to see Hoffman’s face get raped by metal any day. Unfortunately that doesn’t quite happen because Hoffman has brains and breaks his hand to free himself, then when the timer runs out he jams the front of the contraption between two bars to stop it flinging his face across the room. He removes the fetching head piece only to show a cheek that resembles The Joker’s.I love this film because it switches up the other movies by forcing someone to make morale choices regarding someone else’s life as well as their own, along with frickin’ awesome violence – I 
forgot to mention that the first scene involves a contest between two people as to how much of their own bodies they will give up in order to live. Gross I know. You’d think the fat man would win because he has, well, fat that he can donate but oh no, the woman chops off her arm. Now that’s dedication! Poor fatty… the fatties never win The fact that the story wraps up nicely is a bonus, but does throw up gnarly questions like what is going to happen to Hoffman? And Jill? Will Jigsaw’s work live on? Will the fatties ever win?
forgot to mention that the first scene involves a contest between two people as to how much of their own bodies they will give up in order to live. Gross I know. You’d think the fat man would win because he has, well, fat that he can donate but oh no, the woman chops off her arm. Now that’s dedication! Poor fatty… the fatties never win The fact that the story wraps up nicely is a bonus, but does throw up gnarly questions like what is going to happen to Hoffman? And Jill? Will Jigsaw’s work live on? Will the fatties ever win?I hope so, fatty, I hope so…
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