Many horror movie lovers would view the “Saw” movie series as a simple story about a man killing his victums in weird and spontanteous traps, but this theory of re-creation that this man puts forth actually has a connection to the same theory of creation as Victor did in Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstien.” Jigsaw as they would call him, puts individuals in traps that would represent a flaw in their live style and represents a “lesson” that they have to learn. In “Saw II” the second movie of this series, Jigsaw shows this representation of this creation within individuals as each individual go through their trap and has the choice within their self of succeding or failing. These scenes of these individuals going through their traps demonstrates the same type of creation within each person that Victor shows with his creation of his monster. The Jigsaw series is really another Frankenstein by Jigsaw trying to re-create or change his victums through his traps that he personally set up for them based on their non moral ideal flaws.
The scene that I would focus on for this writing project would be the scene where Jigsaw reveals the plot and the purpose of the whole movie to it being about the “test” of one police detective (Matthews). A police man is called to the scene after a message is found on the wall directed at him. Later, he follows a SWAT team to an abandoned steel factory, where they find John Kramer( Jigsaw, who is heavily weakened from his cancer. Computer monitors in John’s lair show that eight people are trapped in an abandoned house: among them are Matthews’ son, who Eric previously argued with, and Amanda Young, ( Jigsaw’s only known survivor. The eight victims have two hours before the nerve gas filling the house kills them, but John promises Matthews that he’ll see his son in a “safe, secure state” if he simply talks with John for a while. Reluctantly, Matthews agrees to the conditions in order to buy time for the tech team to arrive and trace the video signal. Matthews disobeys Jigsaws rules and goes to the house where he believe he will find his son but instead ends up in a trap himself. I would focus on this ending scene of matthews going in the house because towards the end, the movie reveals everything from why the eight victums are there to how this all connects to matthews and his son daniel. This scene is very full and actually shows that matthews trap was actually his son being in the house with the other seven victums and the movie was about his test of his flaws of being impaciente and an unfair cop.
This can represent “Frankenstein” by one element that Jigsaw always put in his traps. The element of re-creation; he believes that each and everyone of his victims can make it through his traps thus learning their “lesson” and becoming a new person. If they become a new person within their self, then that means they think differently, act differently, have a different mindset and attitude, and the old them is completely dead. Well, this can relate to Jigsaw being like Victor and creating his own monster; but it would not be a monster for worst but it would be a monster the better. Jigsaw is having that same act of using technology, machines, and “the hidden law of science” (44). The only difference between Jigsaw creating a new person or correcting their flaws to Victor creating his monster, is that Jigsaw wants to help people and not just experiment for the love of science.
