John Kramer , aka Jigsaw or Jigsaw , is a serial killer from the point of view of the law, but despite the many trials in which his victims found themselves, they always had a chance to save their lives and rediscover its value. This was precisely Jigsaw's main goal.
Although his methods had nothing to do with humanity - by putting a person through pain and suffering, he forced him to turn to the main instinct - survival , often causing himself physical harm or moral injury.
Biography of the maniac Jigsaw - John Kramer
Before becoming Jigsaw, John Kramer was a brilliant engineer and worked for a construction company. His wife, Jill , is a physician and founder of a drug rehabilitation center. Soon, several misfortunes occurred in John's life in a row that changed him forever.
John Kramer - aka Jigsaw and Jigsaw
John was a loving family man and when Jill became pregnant, he began preparing the house for the arrival of his son, who was due to be born in the Year of the Pig according to the Eastern calendar. For little Gideon, his father made a crib and a wooden marionette doll . However, when Jill suffered a miscarriage due to being hit in the stomach by a doorknob during a fight with one of the drug addicts.
John fell into a deep depression and left the family and did not make himself known for a long time until he was found in the workshop by Jill and Kramer's business partner. However, it was no longer John who was sitting at the table; his character had changed radically - not a trace remained of his former cheerfulness. Not wanting to see anyone, he drives his wife and friend away.
Soon, Pila gets worse and learns that he is seriously ill with cancer from his attending physician, Lawrence Gordon .
Lawrence Gordon: one of Jigsaw's assistants, but passed the test first (Saw: The Game of Survival, 2004)
Treatment does not give any results, and the tumor continues to grow. William Easton , the sponsor of Jill's clinic, refuses to pay for his experimental treatment.
John wanted to be treated in Norway, but he needed funds, but Easton refused him, considering that it was not profitable for his company, and even John’s attending physician did not approve of this idea. Moreover, Ulyam reminded Kramer that if he resorted to treatment not approved by insurance, he would be deprived of all insurance payments.
This pushed John to suicide: he decided to drive his car off a cliff, but survived. From the car with serious injuries, Kramer felt more alive than ever, because after going through all the moral and physical torment, he became a completely different person. From this moment the story of the Constructor began.
Box with blades
This is a large transparent aquarium suspended from the ceiling. There is an antidote inside the box. However, if a person puts both hands through two holes at the bottom of the box, he will no longer be able to pull them out, since the holes are surrounded by very sharp blades. It turned out later that it was possible to open the box without harming oneself on the other side. A girl named Addison falls into this trap: she dies from loss of blood.
What is the idea behind the Saw Constructor?
Remembering how a person feels alive before the moments of death, Jigsaw decides to remind other people about this. Seeing how they waste their lives pricelessly, killing themselves with alcohol, drugs, or otherwise poisoning themselves, John is finally confirmed in his beliefs.
One of Jigsaw's victims is tested using a puzzle trap (Saw 2, 2005)
Most of the traps and mechanisms created by Jigsaw symbolically reflect some mistakes of the people he places in these machines, so most often they must hurt themselves, thus punishing themselves for wrong decisions made in the past
Jigsaw's first victim was Cecil Adams , the same drug addict who caused the termination of Kramer's wife's pregnancy. Wanting Cecil to realize all his wrong lifestyle, Jigsaw for the first time utters his catchphrase, which has become his calling card:
"I want to play a game." Saw
Having passed the test out of despair by cutting his face, Cecil freed himself from the Saw structure and immediately attacked him, which the latter foresaw, so he prepared a coil of sharp wire (yagoza), in which the victim became entangled and died from his injuries. After this, Jigsaw cut off a piece of skin in the form of a puzzle piece, after which this will become a mandatory action with all dead victims.
Due to the uneven edges of the skin cuts, the press dubbed the new maniac Saw .
Among Jigsaw's victims were many of his acquaintances: William Easton, Amanda Young, Lawrence Gordon.
Cool room
Troy wakes up to find various parts of his body chained directly by the flesh to the walls and ceiling (with one of the chains threaded through his lower jaw). There is a timer bomb in the classroom (with one and a half minutes remaining). Troy manages to get rid of almost all the chains - except for the one that is threaded through the jaw, the strongest bone of the human skull. He fails to pull out this chain and does not have time to defuse the bomb. The victim of this trap dies in any case (even though the chain cannot be pulled out of the jaw with bare hands): the door to the classroom is welded shut.
Is John Kramer a killer?
There is a debate among fans of the franchise of the very first film: is it correct to consider John Kramer a killer? After all, he didn’t kill anyone with his own hands; most of Jigsaw’s victims were killed in traps built by him or his followers.
But there is a case in the franchise where John Kramer was directly responsible for the death of one of the victims - Adam Faulkner, who was locked in the fateful room in the first film of the franchise. At the end of the film, Kramer, who had been pretending to be a corpse all this time, left Adam in the room to die. Again, John did not kill him with his own hands, but knew that Adam would die there and he had no means of getting out. Does this make him a murderer? Most likely yes.
Adam Faulkner, whom Kramer left chained to die
John Kramer himself in no way considered himself a murderer, but rather a savior. He looked at all these trials from the point of view of helping his victims and was convinced that he was directing their thoughts to the value of human life, which should be treasured.
Many people who went through the tests of the designer really changed like John and could never live the same way after that.
History of character creation
The image of the intellectual maniac-psychologist was created by director James Wan and screenwriter Leigh Whannell. In 2003, the short film “Saw” was released in promo format. The filming was carried out with the aim of arousing the interest of film companies in the story and creating a full-length horror film based on it. Soon he was invited to Hollywood to work with the full version of the film.
Wan and Whannell wanted to create a recognizable image of a maniac, different from other serial killers, to write down the character in detail. A villain has appeared on the screens who does not touch the victims during their death. Kramer does not consider himself a criminal and openly despises those who stain their hands with blood. John's methods are more sophisticated. The hero wants to change people, to reveal to them the value of their lives, and not to deprive them of it. The image had no real prototype, and creepy games in films appear based on the dreams of the creators of the series.
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John Kramer and the Billy Doll
From one of the “captives” Kramer receives the nickname “Constructor”, as John creates complex mechanical structures for traps. The main role in the films of the series was played by actor Tobin Bell. The performer's textured appearance and masterful acting made it possible to create an impressive image of a killer on the screen. Bell was able to convey the character's ability to subtly sense human psychology in order to predict the outcome of the “games.”
Placing the next victim in a chamber space, the maniac watches her and directs her actions using a voice recorded on film. Instead, a frightening-looking Billy doll comes to the captives on a three-wheeled children's bicycle. The doll also appears on the screen installed in the “playing” room and tells you what to do. Billy’s terrifying voice was “given” by Tobin Bell himself - the actor voiced his “messenger”. Sometimes Kramer himself finds himself next to his victims, while people are not aware of the maniac’s immediate proximity.
Followers of the maniac Constructor
Since Jigsaw was only an engineer, he had accomplices and followers help him with some of the tests.
The most famous followers of John Kramer were: Amanda Young - she forever forgot about drugs after the incident, Mark Hoffman and Lawrence Gordon. The latter helped Pila when surgery was required, as he was a doctor.
It is worth noting that after John managed to correct Amanda, his wife Jill joined him, accepting her husband’s beliefs, since despite all her attempts she was unable to cure Amanda of drug addiction.
The doll that John created for his son became the prototype for another mechanical toy through which Jigsaw announced tasks to test subjects.
A terrible puppet of Saw, through which the maniac announced tasks to the victims
John himself put on a pig mask, and then his assistants, kidnapping people for testing.
Saw did not receive any manic pleasure from the suffering of his victims, but on the contrary, John believed that the people who came to him could not otherwise realize the value of their life, treating it as a given. His hard work and brilliant intellect as a mechanic, coupled with an understanding of human psychology, helped him build his trials from which it was always possible to get out, but quite often other people had to die to do this.
Death Mask
This device is somewhat similar to the Iron Maiden, a medieval torture device. A character named Michael, who was an informant for the corrupt police officer Eric Matthews, woke up with an open mask on his face. The mask had numerous spikes on the inside, and the key to it was surgically hidden behind Michael's right eye (meaning the victim would have to sacrifice an eye to save his life). Michael failed to free himself from the mask; he could not bring himself to gouge out his own eye.
Pendulum
This trap is designed to kill, but Seth, who woke up chained to a table by his arms, legs and neck, does not know this. He is given the task: to destroy his hands by putting them in a vice that is located next to the table. With difficulty, Seth manages to do this, but the shackles still do not open, and a huge steel pendulum attached to the ceiling cuts his body in half.
Rack
A rack is a cruciform device to which a victim is nailed, whose head, in turn, is enclosed in shackles. Once the timer is activated, the parts of the rack rotate 180 degrees in turn, breaking the victim's limbs in several places. After the arms and legs were broken, the frame holding the head slowly began to rotate, so that the victim, named Timothy, died from a broken neck.
Angel
The trap is a complex device: the victim's breasts, a girl named Allison Curry, are enclosed in a corset, which is attached to the ribs using thin pins. The corset is attached to the ceiling with chains, so Allison hangs in the middle of the room. Behind the device there are metal arches to which the pins are attached. Directly in front of the victim there is a vat of acid, in which the key to the trap is located (after some time it will dissolve in it, and the “player” himself will experience terrible pain). But even after taking out the key, Kerry could not free herself: the corset turned out to be impossible to remove with her bare hands. Once activated, the arches suddenly opened like the wings of an angel, tearing out Allison's ribs.
Car
Evan wakes up in a car at a scrap yard. He is naked to the waist and glued to the seat with the skin of his back. Jigsaw's voice from the tape recorder tells him that he, his girlfriend Tara, and his two friends are racists and they must pay for it. The car is on jacks, the girl is lying under her (with her face directly under the wheel), and in front and behind the car are chained guys. The voice says that unless Evan lifts himself off the seat (thus realizing that, despite the color of his skin, all people are the same inside) and pulls the lever, in 30 seconds the car will fall off the jack. The film ends, the car engine starts, Evan tries to free himself with all his might, but does not have time - the car falls, crushing his girlfriend, drives through the garage, tearing out Dan's jaw and hands and knocking down Jake, chained to the door, drives into the yard, crashes, after which Evan by inertia, he is torn from the seat and thrown out, from which he instantly dies.
