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Saw

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Saw	comment	Saw is the first film in the Saw horror film series, directed by James Wan and starring Leigh Whannell (who also wrote the film and co-wrote the story with Wan) and Cary Elwes, with Danny Glover, Monica Potter, Michael Emerson, Ken Leung, and Tobin Bell in supporting roles. The film marked Wan's solo feature directorial debutnote He had been a co-director for a movie called Stygian in 2000, and directed the short film that would become the basis of this film in 2003. Originally premiering in January 2004 at the Sundance Film Festival, it was theatrically released by Lionsgate on October 29 of the same year.The film opens with two men, Adam Stanheightnote His surname is never stated in the film itself, nor is it included in the credits; it was Radford in the original script, Faulkner according to the film's producers later on, and eventually retconned to Stanheight in later Saw films. Due to this, he's sometimes referred to by fans as "Adam Faulkner-Stanheight". (Whannell) and Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Elwes), awakening in a dilapidated bathroom chained by their legs to pipes on opposite sides of the room, unsure of how they got there. Between them rests the body of a man lying in a pool of his own blood with a gun in his hand.They soon find a series of tapes which tells them that they're in the middle of a game concocted by the infamous Jigsaw Killer, a man who kidnaps victims he deems not appreciating of life and puts them in life-or-death traps (or, as he calls them, "games") that symbolically reflect a sin or flaw in them and require a great amount of pain to be inflicted on themselves or others to escape alive.Lawrence is ordered to kill Adam before a set time, or else his family — who have been abducted — will be killed. As the two try to find a way to escape, backtracking through their pasts makes them realize that they're far from randomly selected strangers. At the same time, police are trying to investigate Jigsaw and bring him to justice. As both parties continue their searches, the truth is revealed of how tricky and deadly of a foe Jigsaw is.The film's script was written in 2001, but failed attempts at producing it in Wan's home country of Australia pushed the project to Los Angeles. To attract producers, a 10-minute short (also called Saw) was shot, essentially being a prototype of what would be the feature film's Reverse Bear Trap scene, and gained enough interest for the whole feature film to be greenlit.The film opened to mixed reception, but at the time was one of the most profitable horror films since Scream, with its return of over $100 million dwarfing its $1.2 million budget. To the shock of some more familiar with the torture porn gorefests the Saw name would later grow synonymous with, this film is more of a cross between a psychological thriller and police procedural with elements of Mystery Fiction, and is considerably sparing with its gore.A short film titled Full Disclosure Report was featured as a Bonus Material in the film's DVD releases. It follows the titular in-universe documentary TV show addressing the aftermath of the film's events and what has been publicly known from its investigations.Followed by Saw II.
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Saw / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Saw / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: ProducerÂ Oren KoulesÂ plays Donnie Greco in an uncredited role.
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Saw / int_12f9804c	type	Muzzle Flashlight
Saw / int_12f9804c	comment	Muzzle Flashlight: A variant. In a flashback, Adam has to use his camera flash to try and see if there's an intruder in his apartment when the power gets cut. Said intruder captures him.
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Saw / int_15756c9d	type	Where It All Began
Saw / int_15756c9d	comment	Where It All Began: Tapp and Sing attempt to arrest Jigsaw at his hideout, which is where the now-solo Tapp (after Sing died in the first attempt) pursues Jigsaw to again in the climax.
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Saw / int_1713b00a	type	Your Head A-Splode
Saw / int_1713b00a	comment	Your Head Asplode: In his pursuit of Jigsaw, Sing trips a wire linked to the triggers of four shotguns above his head, which end up shooting him in the head. Shortly after, we see his corpse with a sizable chunk of his head missing.
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Saw / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Saw / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Subverted. Tobin Bell shows up for a few seconds as one of Lawrence's patients. Turns out said patient was the one behind the whole thing.
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Saw / int_1dad7003	type	In the Hood
Saw / int_1dad7003	comment	In the Hood: Jigsaw in his first appearance when confronted by police. This of course serves to protect The Reveal.
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Saw / int_1f52ab08	type	Unreveal Angle
Saw / int_1f52ab08	comment	Unreveal Angle: During the flashback to Tapp and Sing raiding Jigsaw's lair, Jigsaw's face is always obscured by numerous scenery details, be it his robe, pieces of furniture or simply the camera angle.
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Saw / int_22a59b45	type	Self-Harm
Saw / int_22a59b45	comment	Self-Harm: Paul Leahy, one of Jigsaw's previous victims, had run a straight razor across his wrists twice. On his tape, Jigsaw asks whether he truly wanted to die or just wanted attention, and as a result, his trap places him deep in a maze of razor wire, forcing him to inflict far more harm on himself to survive.
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Saw / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Saw / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: At the beginning of the film, we can see a key get sucked down the drain of the tub that Adam awakens in. At the end of the movie, we learn that this was the key to the shackle he was in.
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Saw / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Saw / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: "Most people are so ungrateful to be alive. But not you. Not anymore." Jigsaw says this first (through Billy) to someone who's going to live (Amanda), then at the very end to someone who's going to die (Adam).
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Saw / int_23c132d9	type	Beneath Suspicion
Saw / int_23c132d9	comment	Beneath Suspicion: Nobody, not even the audience, ever thinks at any point that the "dead" body in the bathroom where Adam and Lawrence are trapped in is just Playing Possum and is, in fact, the mastermind. At best, they'll think that the mastermind is Zep (one of the victims in the main game) before The Reveal at the end, due to him having been provided plenty of "mastermind equipment" like cameras.
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Saw / int_28848c12	type	Life-or-Limb Decision
Saw / int_28848c12	comment	Life-or-Limb Decision: Jigsaw provides Adam and Lawrence with two hacksaws to escape with, which they soon realize are not meant to be used on their chains, but on their feet. Lawrence manages to cut off his foot and drag himself out of the room, bleeding profusely.
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Saw / int_2c77fae3	type	Darkness Equals Death
Saw / int_2c77fae3	comment	Darkness Equals Death: Happens to Adam twice. On the night that he gets abducted, all of the light in his apartment is cut out. Adam is ultimately left to die in the pitch-black Bathroom.
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Saw / int_2da1421	type	Booby Trap
Saw / int_2da1421	comment	Booby Trap: A set of four ceiling-mounted shotguns left behind for the police. It's one of the few things Jigsaw has ever constructed that fits a rational definition of the word "trap," and the moment Sing falls to it may be the only time Jigsaw has outright murdered somebody in the film, despite his claims that he has never killed anyone and despises murderers.
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Saw / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
Saw / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Tapp has his moments, especially regarding the lengths he's willing to go to catch Jigsaw.
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Saw / int_306b9de9	type	Electric Torture
Saw / int_306b9de9	comment	Electric Torture: Used by Jigsaw to shock Adam and Lawrence a few times. The chains around their shackles are wired up to conduct current.
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Saw / int_31cd5fe7	type	Apologetic Attacker
Saw / int_31cd5fe7	comment	Apologetic Attacker: Lawrence tells Adam he's sorry as he shoots him to save his wife and daughter, and breaks down screaming and crying afterwards.
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Saw / int_33449d14	type	Face Death with Despair
Saw / int_33449d14	comment	Face Death with Despair: At the end of the film, Adam is shell-shocked when the actual Jigsaw Killer reveals himself before him. After being electrocuted by Jigsaw and watching him shut the bathroom lights and walk out, Adam breaks down screaming in despair as the killer seals the door and leaves him to die.
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Saw / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Saw / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: The Flammable Jelly Trap is already sadistic enough with its objective, but there's a floor covered with glass shards thrown in off the books. It doesn't really connect symbolically to its victim; it's just there to make his job a hell of a lot harder. Some of Zep's actions while holding Alison and Diana hostage are needlessly cruel, like forcing Alison herself to tell her husband that he's failed.
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Saw / int_34e3784f	type	Please, Don't Leave Me
Saw / int_34e3784f	comment	Please, Don't Leave Me: After Lawrence saws off his foot, he tells Adam he's going to leave and get them help, to which Adam breaks down and has this reaction as they lay there bleeding and clinging onto each other.
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Saw / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Saw / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Lawrence delivers a litany of them towards the climax, after having kept himself completely devoid of swearing up until that point.
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Saw / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Saw / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Lawrence is supposed to have an American accent, but the British one of his actor Cary Elwes occasionally slips through, especially in the more dramatic scenes. This also happens a few times to Adam's actor Leigh Whannell, an Australian, though it's less noticeable than Elwes' case.
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Saw / int_37d94ed9	type	Agony of the Feet
Saw / int_37d94ed9	comment	Agony of the Feet: Mark Wilson's test was hindered by glass shards spread all around the room to trip his bare feet.
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Saw / int_3929e0db	type	You Need to Get Laid
Saw / int_3929e0db	comment	You Need to Get Laid: In the depths of his determination to solve the Jigsaw case, Tapp is told by Sing that "maybe [he] should find [him]self a girlfriend."
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Saw / int_39a8fc83	type	The Can Kicked Him
Saw / int_39a8fc83	comment	The Can Kicked Him: The main game is set in a bathroom, though neither Adam nor Gordon actually die in it. Instead, Zep ends up dying in it when Adam kills him, but Adam himself ends up being left to die as well at the end of the movie.
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Saw / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
Saw / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: You'd think the creep watching Lawrence and Adam while holding a family hostage is the Jigsaw Killer. But no, he's a pawn himself, and the real villain has been right in front of you the entire time...
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Saw / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Saw / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Adam using the split-second flash on his camera to find the intruder in his pitch-black apartment, considering we know that he's not alone and he's bound to get abducted...
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Saw / int_3d5547b0	type	Perfect Poison
Saw / int_3d5547b0	comment	Perfect Poison: Invoked by Adam when he pretends to pass out from the poisoned cigarette after taking a couple of drags from it. It doesn't fool anyone.
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Saw / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
Saw / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: Tapp doesn't seem to care too much about following standard police procedure. This comes back to bite him when he gets Sing killed and himself discharged.
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Saw / int_4128bc77	type	Broken Tears
Saw / int_4128bc77	comment	Broken Tears: Amanda after just narrowly escaping the Reverse Bear Trap. Lawrence after hearing what he thinks is his family being gunned down, and after being forced to shoot Adam. For Diana, an 8-year-old, it doesn't get worse than being held hostage by a sadistic monster and not knowing where your father is.
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Saw / int_42c186e	type	A Tragedy of Impulsiveness
Saw / int_42c186e	comment	A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Tapp and Sing raid Jigsaw's lair without a permit or backup and, in the ensuing struggle, Sing tries to pursue him on his own. That doesn't end well.
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Saw / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Saw / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Tapp is determined to take down his target, and doesn't care about following police procedure to do it. But given who his target eventually turns out to be, you can't really blame him.
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Saw / int_45554ca2	type	"I Can't Look!" Gesture
Saw / int_45554ca2	comment	"I Can't Look!" Gesture: As soon as Adam starts smashing Zep's skull in with the toilet lid, Lawrence immediately puts his head down and averts his eyes.
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Saw / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Saw / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: ...and daughter in order to retrieve the antidote for his poison.
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Saw / int_4968ed35	type	Door-Closes Ending
Saw / int_4968ed35	comment	Door-Closes Ending: Jigsaw shutting the bathroom door on Adam.
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Saw / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Saw / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Ironically, the most violent acts in the film are hardly shown at all, even in the extended cut. Overlaps with Nothing Is Scarier, as a good deal of the film's horror is created through having the audience imply what happens. Lawrence sawing off his own foot and Adam bashing in Zep's skull in the climax both take place mostly offscreen. We just see the saw begin to cut into Lawrence's foot with blood quickly pouring out, and Adam smashes the toilet lid offscreen but not visibly into Zep. Lawrence's severed foot and Zep's body aren't actually seen until the end of Saw II. This also extends into other depictions of violent events, such as the dead victims of Jigsaw's traps (we mostly see the aftermath, and their struggles are briefly implied) and Amanda cutting open and disemboweling Donnie Greco (she stabs him offscreen, and the gore is mostly kept to one shot of Donnie's entrails).
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Saw / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Saw / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Amanda was just a hapless druggie put into a Death Trap by an insane Serial Killer, where she's forced to kill a man to survive. After the ordeal, she is visibly broken on an emotional and physical level when interviewed by the police.
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Saw / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Saw / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Lawrence survives and goes to get help, and his family is able to evade Zep and live, but Tapp and Sing end up dead, and Adam's only chance to escape was unintentionally lost from the very start, when he drained the key to his chain as he awoke. As a result, he is left to die in the bathroom by Jigsaw, and the film closes on him hysterically screaming in despair.
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Saw / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Saw / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: After the whole situation is seemingly resolved, Adam tries to look for the key for his shackle on the body of the apparent Jigsaw, Zep, only to find a tape recorder on Zep's person, which he plays. "Hello, Mr. Hindle," says Jigsaw, revealing Zep was in fact another victim trapped in another one of his games. Then comes the Wham Shot after the tape ends...
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Saw / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Saw / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: One of the most iconic ones in modern horror. As Adam plays Jigsaw's final tape, recorded for Zep, we see the supposedly dead man in the middle of the bathroom slowly rise in the background, rip the fake wound off his head, and reveal himself as Jigsaw.
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Saw / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Saw / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Most wouldn't expect the first film in a series so synonymous with Torture Porn to be a suspense-filled mystery thriller with Gory Discretion Shots.
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Saw / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Saw / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: From what is seen in the flashbacks, Mark Wilson was a successful man enjoying life. Jigsaw's reason for kidnapping him? He liked to lie about being sick to get days off work.
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Saw / int_5bdffefe	type	Jitter Cam
Saw / int_5bdffefe	comment	Jitter Cam: Downplayed. Shots of Adam are usually handheld and shaky, which mirrors his jittery character. This allows him to foil Lawrence, since his shots are steady and controlled, reflecting his calm and collected attitude.
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Saw / int_614127a5	type	That Liar Lies
Saw / int_614127a5	comment	That Liar Lies: Lawrence, after being told by his wife that Adam is lying.
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Saw / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
Saw / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: The film plays this pretty straight with Zep keeping Lawrence's family hostage.
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Saw / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Saw / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: About half of the film solely takes place in the bathroom Adam and Lawrence are trapped in, partly due to the fact that James Wan and Leigh Whannell were just two guys fresh out of film school with not much in the way of a budget, and only had 18 days to film the movie.
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Saw / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Saw / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: During the flashback that introduces us to Jigsaw lying in a hospital bed as Lawrence's patient, there's a notebook on the table over his bed. Eagle-eyed viewers might spot that the notebook features a drawing of the reverse bear trap, thus revealing the patient's true identity. Take a look at the wall behind Amanda in the shot where she's standing over the paralyzed man, and you'll notice faint writing by Jigsaw. It's possible this was intended for the poor cellmate. When Lawrence loads the revolver to shoot Adam, all of the chambers are empty. This is an easy-to-miss hint that the man on the floor didn't shoot himself, as revolvers have to have spent casings removed manually.
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Saw / int_6941e30b	type	Room Full of Crazy
Saw / int_6941e30b	comment	Room Full of Crazy: One of the rooms in the apartment Tapp rented after getting discharged from the police is covered with thousands of newspaper clippings about the Jigsaw case.
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Saw / int_6de71c57	type	Disc-One Final Boss
Saw / int_6de71c57	comment	Disc-One Final Boss: Zep, who we are led to believe is Jigsaw, was merely another victim forced to play his games.
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Saw / int_70165a72	type	Orderlies are Creeps
Saw / int_70165a72	comment	Orderlies are Creeps: Zep is a hospital orderly who kidnaps Lawrence's wife and daughter, then torments him with photos of them tied up and threats to murder them at a specified time. Granted, that was the test Jigsaw put him in, but considering Zep ends up dead anyway, he could have defied Jigsaw at the cost of his own life rather than terrorizing a helpless mom and little girl.
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Saw / int_71329e49	type	Turn in Your Badge
Saw / int_71329e49	comment	Turn in Your Badge: Happens offscreen. Tapp was discharged from the police force after his actions in pursuing Jigsaw inadvertently got his partner killed and himself severely injured.
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Saw / int_738f4473	type	Documentary Episode
Saw / int_738f4473	comment	Documentary Episode: Though it chronologically takes place after the film instead of during it.
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Saw / int_73ef9ef3	type	Almighty Janitor
Saw / int_73ef9ef3	comment	Almighty Janitor: A last-minute subversion in Zep. He is still pretty resourceful all the same.
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Saw / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Saw / int_74f57438	comment	Cell Phones Are Useless: Jigsaw leaves a cell phone in order to inform Lawrence that his wife and daughter are being held hostage. Naturally, the first thing Lawrence does when he finds the phone is to attempt to call the police, but it turns out that the phone is somehow modified to only receive calls, and not even dialing 911 works.
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Saw / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
Saw / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: Before the reveal of his identity at the end, Jigsaw's face is obscured via Unreveal Angle whenever he appears onscreen.
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Saw / int_7b4cbce1	type	Headbutt of Love
Saw / int_7b4cbce1	comment	Headbutt of Love: Adam and Lawrence get one at the end of the film, Lawrence using it to help calm down the justifiably hysterical Adam after he kills Zep.
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Saw / int_7d791b62	type	Rewind, Replay, Repeat
Saw / int_7d791b62	comment	Rewind, Replay, Repeat: Lawrence replays the part in his tape that he has received from Jigsaw where Jigsaw says that "Allison and Diana will die, and I'll leave you in this room to rot." Turning the volume all the way up allows him to hear the nearly inaudible "follow your heart" clue in the static at the end of the tape. Tapp is seen doing this with a video tape Jigsaw made, which is about the only piece of evidence he has on the guy.
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Saw / int_7e577db	type	Slashed Throat
Saw / int_7e577db	comment	Slashed Throat: Jigsaw slashes Tapp's throat with a concealed blade. Tapp survives, albeit with a large scar across his neck and partially damaged vocal cords.
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Saw / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
Saw / int_7fbe9a30	comment	Freak Out: Lawrence goes completely nuts when he thinks his family has been killed, leading to him cutting off his foot and shooting Adam.
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Saw / int_826ffcc8	type	Demonic Dummy
Saw / int_826ffcc8	comment	Demonic Dummy/Perverse Puppet: Billy the Puppet, the doll Jigsaw uses to communicate with his victims.
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Saw / int_8cb844c6	type	Mr. Exposition
Saw / int_8cb844c6	comment	Mr. Exposition: Lawrence serves this purpose to explain the previous Jigsaw incidents and Tapp's story.
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Saw / int_92163e88	type	Locked in a Room
Saw / int_92163e88	comment	Locked in a Room: The film is about two men waking up in a decrepit bathroom, chained to metal pipes on opposite ends of the room from each other, and they have to figure out why they're there, who put them there, and how to escape, while one of them is forced to kill the other to save his family from being shot.
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Saw / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Saw / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Sing initially plays along with Jigsaw's orders to find the keys for Jeff's Drill Chair game in his lair. After realizing the nigh-impossibility of the task, he simply shoots at the drills and saves the man.
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Saw / int_9553214b	type	He Was Right There All Along
Saw / int_9553214b	comment	He Was Right There All Along: At the end of the film, Jigsaw is revealed to be the seemingly-dead body in the middle of the room that Adam and Lawrence are trapped in. He'd been there during the entire movie, and neither of them noticed.
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Saw / int_959cb9aa	type	One Degree of Separation
Saw / int_959cb9aa	comment	One Degree of Separation: Initially, Adam and Lawrence are apparent strangers. It turns out, however, that Adam was hired by Tapp to spy on Lawrence, who was suspected of being Jigsaw, whose identity is in turn revealed to be that of John Kramer, a patient of Lawrence's with terminal cancer. This was all part of Jigsaw's plan, but Adam and Lawrence didn't know that when they found out.
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Saw / int_974b47a7	type	Men Are the Expendable Gender
Saw / int_974b47a7	comment	Men Are the Expendable Gender: Amanda, the only female test subject, is also the only one to pass her test. The only other female characters put in danger, Lawrence's wife and daughter, survive thanks to Tapp. This is the only film in the series to play this straight; the kill counts are much more equal-opportunity in later films.
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Saw / int_99e87707	type	When You Coming Home, Dad?
Saw / int_99e87707	comment	When You Coming Home, Dad?: Diana often wonders why Lawrence is almost never at home. Of course, his wife doesn't really know, either.
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Saw / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Saw / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: One of Jigsaw's victims, Mark, is put in a trap where he will burn to death if he fails — poisoned and covered in flammable jelly, only able to read the code numbers for the safe with the antidote inside using a candle. He ended up fumbling the candle.
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Saw / int_9ec60b8b	type	White Shirt of Death
Saw / int_9ec60b8b	comment	White Shirt of Death: Adam wears a white T-shirt for the entire movie, which ends up drenched in his and Zep's blood. Played with in that he ends up dying in a bloodless way, as shown later in Saw III. Averted with Lawrence, who wears a white T-shirt identical to Adam's in the Bathroom, but never gets covered in blood and survives the game.
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Saw / int_a08199ec	type	The Dog Was the Mastermind
Saw / int_a08199ec	comment	The Dog Was the Mastermind: The "dead man" in the middle of the room was the mastermind. Oh yeah, he also happened to be an unconscious one-scene patient of Lawrence's.
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Saw / int_a3597c29	type	Magic Countdown
Saw / int_a3597c29	comment	Magic Countdown: The clock in the bathroom passes through significantly more than a half-hour throughout the sequence where Lawrence and Adam focus on the mirror, which only lasts a few minutes.
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Saw / int_a4cd4fc6	type	Cruel Twist Ending
Saw / int_a4cd4fc6	comment	Cruel Twist Ending: Zep, the presumed Jigsaw Killer, has been killed, and Gordon has escaped to seek help for himself and Adam... only for the dead body that's been in the room the entire time to get up, reveal he was Jigsaw all along, and leave Adam to rot.
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Saw / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
Saw / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: The documentary show's host, played by Rich Skidmore, directly states to have the same name as him.
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Saw / int_a5f998ea	type	Stockholm Syndrome
Saw / int_a5f998ea	comment	Stockholm Syndrome: The last we see of Amanda, after giving her testimony of escaping the Reverse Bear Trap, is her claiming to the police — seemingly out of nowhere — that Jigsaw "helped" her. This open end would be explored in the next few films, which fleshed out her character.
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Saw / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Saw / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Detective Tapp and Zep fire multiple magazines at each other without managing to hit anything. For Zep, this is somewhat understandable, since he's just a hospital orderly. However, Tapp is a detective, who should have had multiple hours of marksmanship training in the police force. Though it is somewhat justified that he's been discharged from the force for quite a while and has also driven mad with his quest to discover who Jigsaw is. It's further justified by the fact that police officers aren't known for extreme accuracy in the hits-to-misses ratio.
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Saw / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Saw / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Despite Jigsaw's claims, the man in Amanda's trap is not dead, but rather very much alive and heavily sedated, and he's forced to watch her cut him open to retrieve the key inside his stomach. Adam's fate at the end of the film is being trapped and chained in the dark, abandoned bathroom, with no means of escape.
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Saw / int_aa30e350	type	Sole Survivor
Saw / int_aa30e350	comment	Sole Survivor: Amanda Young is the only known person who survived a Jigsaw trap, at least up to this point in the series.
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Saw / int_ab686f50	type	You All Meet in a Cell
Saw / int_ab686f50	comment	You All Meet in a Cell: The film's premise is that Adam and Lawrence wake up chained to opposing walls in a dingy bathroom. Besides for a hidden key for Adam to escape his shackle, their only means of escape are a pair of hacksaws that aren't enough to cut through their chains, but are enough to cut through the ankles those chains are attached to.
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Saw / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Saw / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Adam upon realizing he's been found out as Gordon's photographer. Later, Zep upon realizing a photo of him was left in the bag at the Bathroom, and his captives now know he's involved.
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Saw / int_b1e81ef2	type	Dead-Hand Shot
Saw / int_b1e81ef2	comment	Dead-Hand Shot: The film has promotional posters featuring both a severed hand (a less grisly variant of which is the page image) and a severed foot, with corresponding taglines ("Every piece has a puzzle" and "Every puzzle has its pieces").
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Saw / int_b39d5719	type	Sadist
Saw / int_b39d5719	comment	Sadist: Zep mockingly waves at Adam and Lawrence through the camera feed while saying "I see you", and threatens Alison and Diana with a gun while listening for their heartbeats to see how much they increase. On the movie's commentary, it is stated that this was done to show that he enjoyed being given power over others.
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Saw / int_b3ca047c	type	Toilet Horror
Saw / int_b3ca047c	comment	Toilet Horror: Most of the film, with all its terror, takes place in a bathroom of sorts.
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Saw / int_b8e38fc5	type	Metaphorically True
Saw / int_b8e38fc5	comment	Metaphorically True: Lawrence says that newspapers dubbing the Jigsaw Killer as such are inaccurate, because technically speaking, he never killed anyone directly; he just put them in situations where death is very likely. The point is really moot, as almost any jurisdiction would consider putting someone in such a situation to be murder, combined with other possible crimes like kidnapping. Plus, that ignores one of the flashbacks to Lawrence's explanation of Jigsaw, in which the latter lures Sing into a booby trap, resulting in his death; this was in turn preceded by a very straightforward attempt to murder Tapp by slashing his throat.
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Saw / int_bb30b9e9	type	Danger Takes a Backseat
Saw / int_bb30b9e9	comment	Danger Takes a Backseat: A variant. Gordon isn't attacked in his car immediately, but when he steps out of it momentarily to use a phone, you see the back door slowly opening...
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Saw / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
Saw / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: In a flashback, a pig-masked figure attacks Adam in his apartment (itself preceded by a Cat Scare of a Billy doll suddenly laughing). The electric shocks Jigsaw gives to Lawrence and Adam.
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Saw / int_c2299d6e	type	Cutting the Knot
Saw / int_c2299d6e	comment	Cutting the Knot: In a flashback, Tapp and Sing manage to catch Jigsaw in his hideout. Jigsaw activates one of his traps to distract them so he can escape. The trap involves two drills closing in on Jeff's head, and the key needed to free him is on a janitor-sized key ring with dozens of others. After some time of trial and error with the keys, Sing gives up and shoots both of the drills to deactivate them.
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Saw / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
Saw / int_c3585f4a	comment	Sing's death via quadruple-shotgun headshot is initially framed from the shoulders down, so we're not able to see how damaged his head is. However, the amount of blood splattered everywhere insinuates nothing good.
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Saw / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Saw / int_c41668cd	comment	Needle in a Stack of Needles: One of Jigsaw's victims, Mark Wilson, is given a slow-acting poison, and locked in a room naked and covered in flammable oil. The antidote is in a safe with a combination lock, and he must read the combination on the wall using a candle. The problem is, the combination is hidden among thousands of numbers with no way to distinguish the real one. He eventually dies.
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Saw / int_c4ac1c0	type	"X" Marks the Spot
Saw / int_c4ac1c0	comment	"X" Marks the Spot: An "X" located on one of the wall tiles gives away that said tile can be extracted. When Lawrence takes out the tile, he finds a box with cigarettes, a lighter and a cellphone.
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Saw / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Saw / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The short film's opening title uses a sound effect from Nine Inch Nails' "Screaming Slave" (a remix of their song "Happiness in Slavery").note Charlie Clouser, the composer for the whole franchise including the short film, was a former touring member of the band, though it's unlikely that this is an allusion to him, since he wasn't involved in the remix at all (it came out about 2 years before he joined the band).
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Saw / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Saw / int_c9868780	comment	Playing Possum: Adam does this when Zep comes in to the bathroom to shoot Lawrence before leaping up and delivering some Extreme MÃªlÃ©e Revenge onto Zep's skull. The real Jigsaw spends the majority of the film mimicking a corpse in the middle of the bathroom.
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Saw / int_ca81eae7	type	Hollywood Darkness
Saw / int_ca81eae7	comment	Hollywood Darkness: Averted with the darkroom where Adam gets abducted, which is in his already dark apartment.
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Saw / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Saw / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: As the film prioritizes suspense over gore, it utilizes this trope even more prominently than the following installments. Of the "Wait for it..." variant: The scene where Lawrence's daughter Diana wakes up and notices there's something beside her. The audience knows just by the shot where the camera zooms into the black void. Zep attacks her later, long after she tells mommy and has daddy help her fall asleep. A pig-masked figure silently crawling out of the back of Lawrence's car. Adam using the split-second flash on his camera to find the intruder in his pitch-black apartment, considering we know that he's not alone and he's bound to get abducted... Sing's death via quadruple-shotgun headshot is initially framed from the shoulders down, so we're not able to see how damaged his head is. However, the amount of blood splattered everywhere insinuates nothing good. And that's to say nothing of the traps themselves. Whereas the sequels are happy to show us most every single gory detail, this movie was very careful to let the traps be disturbing by leaving a surprising amount to the audience's imagination. The Flammable Jelly Trap shows not the moment where Mark steps on the wrong piece of glass, but rather him searching for the combination before implying the worst...then transitioning to a shot of his burnt corpse. The Razor Wire Maze's flashback shows only the start of Paul's game before quickly cutting, because let's face it — you already know what's gonna happen. Even the Reverse Bear Trap, the most explicitly-seen trap that has a very gory outcome, only shows gore in a few split-second shots, and even then prefers to let the audience's minds do the work. For the "Nothing at all" variant, there's the infamous scene where Lawrence saws his foot off, which only shows him beginning to cut into the foot. During the rest of the scene, we switch between shots of his agonized face with some blood splattering on it, and Adam panicking at the sight. Even when Lawrence does finish, we only see him toss the saw aside, and never once do we see his severed foot, at most seeing him crawl across the floor, leaving a barely visible trail of blood. There are plenty of viewers who insist that you do see his foot get cut off, showing just how effective and disturbing the decision not to show most of the scene truly is.
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Saw / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Saw / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: After both try to cut the chains that attach their shackles, Lawrence tells Adam that the hacksaws weren't meant to cut through the chains, but rather to cut off their respective chained feet. Lawrence eventually cuts off his own in order to escape at the climax.
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Saw / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Saw / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: Saw
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Saw / int_d6519b1b	type	Rabid Cop
Saw / int_d6519b1b	comment	Rabid Cop: Tapp's recklessness results in his partner killed, his throat slashed and him being dismissed from the police department. Plus, his subsequent obsession with trailing Gordon blinded him so thoroughly to alternative suspects that he actually saw Allison's and Diana's captor inside Gordon's house and did nothing about it.
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Saw / int_d952cef0	type	Killing in Self-Defense
Saw / int_d952cef0	comment	Killing in Self-Defense: Played with in that it was to save someone else's life; Adam smashes Zep's skull in with a toilet tank lid before he can pull the trigger to kill Lawrence.
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Saw / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Saw / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Downplayed realistically with Lawrence's wife Alison, who is unable to subdue Zep but at the very least holds him off until Tapp can intervene.
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Saw / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Saw / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Zep.
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Saw / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Saw / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: The notorious twist ending reveals where Jigsaw was over the events of the movie. He gets bonus points for being seen as a cancer patient in a scene in the middle of the film and for Playing Possum in the bathroom throughout the entire movie.
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Saw / int_dda12cb3	comment	In a flashback, a pig-masked figure attacks Adam in his apartment (itself preceded by a Cat Scare of a Billy doll suddenly laughing).
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Saw / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Lawrence hearing Tapp and Zep exchanging gunfire over the phone as Alison and Diana scream, making him believe they're being murdered, gets him pretty close. It's when they call him afterwards and he's unable to reach the phone that he's finally pushed over the edge and saws off his foot.
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Saw / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: When Lawrence fails his game, Alison isn't having Zep's sadistic shit and fights him with all her might to protect her child before Tapp bursts into the scene.
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Saw / int_e21e21be	comment	Red and Black and Evil All Over: When Tapp and Sing raid his lair, Jigsaw appears wearing a black cloak with a red interior drawn up. Billy the Puppet has this for a color scheme, with a little white thrown in as well.
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Saw / int_e3847ee8	comment	Cigarette of Anxiety: Adam and Lawrence manage to find a box hidden in one of the Bathroom's walls, which has a cigarette and a note from Jigsaw inside. Lawrence proposes a plan — Adam will smoke the cigarette and pretend to die, since the note implies that it's laced with poison. Although the plan doesn't work, Adam is clearly elated to see the cigarette, and savors it while he smokes it, fluttering his eyelashes, dropping his shoulders and even smiling after he takes a drag.
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Saw / int_e41cf31d	type	Extreme MÃªlÃ©e Revenge
Saw / int_e41cf31d	comment	Adam does this when Zep comes in to the bathroom to shoot Lawrence before leaping up and delivering some Extreme MÃªlÃ©e Revenge onto Zep's skull.
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Saw / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: Downplayed, considering the massive gorefest that the sequels become. That being said, what is shown of the majority of deaths in this movie is still quite graphic, such as Sing's death via a shotgun-powered Booby Trap and Donnie Greco (the "dead cellmate") being disemboweled by Amanda.
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Saw / int_e663d3ef	comment	Only a Flesh Wound: When Lawrence shoots Adam, it's later revealed that he wasn't killed but rather shot in the shoulder. However, this doesn't stop him from having full use of that arm when he bludgeons Zep's head, although it can be argued that shock and adrenaline are playing a considerable role.
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Saw / int_e8760868	type	Space Whale Aesop
Saw / int_e8760868	comment	Space Whale Aesop: Providing methadone and other compassionate care for people with substance abuse disorders? Bad, enabling, creates leeches on society. The best way to treat substance abuse disorder is to bring a person inches away from a gruesome death and make them stab someone in the stomach, look through their entrails and find a key to unlock themselves. Sure, it'll also turn them into murderers in their own right, but hey, better than methadone.
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Saw / int_ea8ba51d	comment	No Full Name Given: David's surname is never stated.
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Saw / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
Saw / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: Chronologically, this short contains the first appearance of Eric Matthews.
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Saw / int_f0508c08	type	Decomposite Character
Saw / int_f0508c08	comment	Decomposite Character: In the final full-length film, David's character is split between several ones: Adam is played by the same actor as him, Leigh Whannell, and displays a similar attitude. Tapp takes David's name as his first name. Amanda is put through the same test as David. Like David, Zep is a hospital orderly.
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Saw / int_f0e85546	type	Unbuilt Trope
Saw / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: The film is surprisingly bloodless for the immense Gorn that's usually associated with the Saw franchise, which popularized the Torture Porn genre in the 2000s. The most brutal Death Trap that the viewer is shown (and the one most in line with typical traps of the series), the Reverse Bear Trap, is one that its intended victim escapes unharmed, and for the others, the viewer is mostly told what the traps did to their victims as opposed to shown. Most of the serious gore only came in the sequels. What's more, Jigsaw wasn't much of a Torture Technician, instead forcing his victims into situations where they have to mutilate themselves in order to survive, and most of the traps weren't the complex clockwork machinery of later films, instead being comparatively simple things like crawling through razor wire, walking barefoot over broken glass, having to read messages on a wall by candlelight to solve a puzzle while coated in flammable jelly, or being chained to a pipe and given a hacksaw that can't cut through the chain but can cut through the foot it's attached to. Today, people watching the first film expecting non-stop carnage would probably be disappointed when they get a low-key detective thriller instead.
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Saw / int_f19e8a55	comment	Bad "Bad Acting": Adam's attempt to fool Jigsaw into thinking he was poisoned, consisting of him pretending to dramatically convulse and choke.
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Saw / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
Saw / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Zep was perfectly willing to kill Lawrence's wife...
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Saw / int_f6370d13	type	Organ Theft
Saw / int_f6370d13	comment	Organ Theft: Discussed when Adam looks over his body and tells Lawrence that they're in a typical organ theft situation where someone has kidnapped them, took their kidneys and put them on sale in eBay. Lawrence assures Adam that's impossible, because if he had lost his kidneys, he would be in extreme pain or already dead.
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Saw / int_f65b8cf3	type	Flashback Within a Flashback
Saw / int_f65b8cf3	comment	Flashback Within a Flashback: A flashback occurs when Lawrence recalls being taken in for questioning by the police. While in the station, he watches Amanda, the only known survivor of one of Jigsaw's traps, tell the police about her kidnapping and torture. This in turn leads to a flashback from her perspective, after which we return to Lawrence in the present.
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Saw / int_f910567	type	This Is a Drill
Saw / int_f910567	comment	This Is a Drill: Jeff's trap involves two drills coming at his neck. Sing has twenty seconds to find the right key in a chain of them. Fortunately, he aborts the game by destroying the drill contraptions with his pistol.
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Saw / int_fb72ee2e	type	Swallow the Key
Saw / int_fb72ee2e	comment	Swallow the Key: Apparently forced on one of Jigsaw's captives, so that another prisoner, Amanda, could be required to cut it out of his body to stop her own rapidly-approaching demise. Contrary to what she'd been told, the key-swallower was not dead when she started cutting, just unconscious.
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Saw / int_fc5e7c2e	type	Lying to Protect Your Feelings
Saw / int_fc5e7c2e	comment	Lying to Protect Your Feelings: When Lawrence throws Adam his wallet to show him a family photo of him with his wife and daughter, Adam opens it up onto to see that it's been replaced with a picture Jigsaw put in there of the two of them bound and gagged, assumedly for Lawrence to find and spur him into killing Adam to save them. Adam is visibly shaken, but tells Lawrence that the picture isn't there at all. Close to the climax of the film, when the two of them are having a heated argument, Adam finally throws Lawrence the picture Jigsaw took, and just as expected, he's completely horrified.
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Saw / int_ffb975c7	type	Third Act Stupidity
Saw / int_ffb975c7	comment	Third Act Stupidity: Early in the film, Adam tries to get a tape recorder that's far out of reach, to which Lawrence suggests using his shirt to snag it, with successful results. When the climax begins, Lawrence is trying to reach a phone just inches away so he can contact his wife; he takes off his shirt and uses it as a tourniquet while he saws off his shackled foot to free himself. Justified in that the trauma of the situation has taken its toll on them, with Lawrence in particular undergoing visible Sanity Slippage throughout the whole scene.
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