Saw III
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| German title | Saw III | ||
| Original title | Saw III | ||
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| Country of production | USA , Canada | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 2006 | ||
| length | Cinema: 104 minutes Unrated: 109 minutes Director’s Cut: 118 minutes |
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| Age rating | FSK 18/16 (abridged version) SPIO / JK: no serious risk to young people (indicated) | ||
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| Director | Darren Lynn Bousman | ||
| script | Leigh Whannell | ||
| production | Mark Oren Koules Castle | ||
| music | Charlie Clouser | ||
| camera | David A. Armstrong | ||
| cut | Kevin Greutert | ||
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Saw III is a horror - splatter film in 2006 by director Darren Lynn Bousman and the sequel to Saw and Saw II . Other films in the Saw series include Saw IV , Saw V , Saw VI , Saw 3D - Completion and Jigsaw .
action
The film begins in the old, crumbling bathroom, where Detective Eric Matthews was locked up and chained at the end of the second part. The only way to break free would be to saw off your foot like a previous victim in the room to escape the shackles. But he can't do that. Instead, he smashes his foot with the lid of the toilet cistern, breaks it again and can free his foot from the bondage. Then he limps after Amanda, who locked him in the bathroom. He tries to overwhelm her in a brutal fight, but fails and remains in the corridor, where it is not apparent whether he will ultimately die or not.
Meanwhile, his colleague Kerry, who is looking for Eric with Detectives Rigg and Hoffman, finds another murder victim named Troy. However, this victim had no chance of escaping his trap. It was attached to several chains. A chain of it ran through his lower jaw. But even if he had managed to escape those chains, which he tried, he couldn't have survived because the doors of the room were welded shut. He was ultimately killed by an explosion. Until then, everyone thinks Jigsaw is the killer. However, in this case it is noticeable that Troy would have had no chance of survival even if the task had been passed. Kerry concludes that Jigsaw cannot be responsible for this murder.
When Kerry returns to her apartment, she is overwhelmed and finds herself in one of Jigsaw's traps. Her chest was enclosed in a device that appears to be disarmed with a key, but which is in a glass filled with acid. A screen tells her that she has a minute to free herself, but should hurry because the acid will soon have completely dissolved the key. She tries to get the key, reaches into the glass - which burns her hand - and opens the corresponding lock. However, this had no function, which destroys the initial hope of survival. Just before the device snaps open, Amanda, Jigsaw's assistant (see Part 2), enters the room. Kerry realizes too late that Amanda was behind the murders. The trap then snaps open and her chest is torn apart.
A little later, the doctor Lynn is kidnapped by Amanda and brought to Jigsaw, who is dying. Lynn is supposed to keep Jigsaw alive during the time that Lynn's husband Jeff - who knows nothing about his kidnapping by Amanda Lynn - has to pass a series of tests. Lynn wears a kind of ruff equipped with a sensor that fires five shotgun shells directly at her head when Jigsaw dies.
Jeff was selected because he could not cope with the loss of his son - who was killed in a traffic accident - and since then has had massive thirst for revenge on the one hand and hardly cares about his younger daughter on the other. During the tests, he is confronted with the people who are connected with the accident and the subsequent legal process. In chronological order these are:
- the only eyewitness to Jeff's son's accident who refused to testify in court
- the responsible judge who sentenced the person who caused the accident to only 6 months in prison
- the person who caused the traffic accident himself
He is always given the choice of forgiving them and rescuing them from Jigsaw's equipment or accepting their death. Jeff tries to save the people every time, but usually decides too late.
The eyewitness hangs naked, hung by the arms, in a cold room and is sprayed with water, which freezes very quickly. Jeff has the choice of retrieving the key that is behind the bars or freezing the eyewitness to death. He decides to get the key, sticks his arms through the bars, but his arm is also sprayed and he pulls it back. Then he grabs the key, but too late. The woman is already frozen. Jeff leaves the room.
The judge is lying in a vat with a neck restraint, into which chopped up dead pigs are gradually washed, so that he threatens to drown. To get the key to the collar, Jeff has to burn the souvenirs of his son in an oven, which also has the key. After some deliberation, he burns the son's toys and photos, receives the key and saves the judge at the last second.
The person who caused the accident was attached to an apparatus resembling a cross from a crucifixion and gradually twisted his joints: first his arms, then his feet and lastly his neck. The key to freeing him is hanging on the trigger of a shotgun. As soon as he pulls the key, Jeff would activate the trigger. After hesitating for a long time, he decides to forgive the person who caused the accident and loosens the key from the rope to which it is attached, but should have pulled it to show that he even took a bullet for the life of the person who caused the accident . So the judge who is in the line of fire is hit and dies. Jeff has the key, but is unable to save the man.
After passing the tests, Jeff finds a gun and enters the room where Jigsaw, Amanda, and Lynn are. At that moment, Amanda shoots Lynn out of jealousy. Jeff then shoots Amanda in the neck. As she dies, Amanda learns from Jigsaw that he wanted to check Amanda with the whole test and find out whether she would be able to keep the rules and thus continue his work. Lynn was Jeff's wife, so Amanda's life was in Lynn's hands. If Lynn dies, Jeff would kill Amanda, just as he did. She did not pass this test because it was not about testing the victims, but about pure lust for murder. Because it was she who had changed the traps so that there was no chance of escape. She also helped to kill the person who was left in the room in the first part.
While Lynn threatens to bleed to death, Jigsaw poses a final test to Jeff: he can murder Jigsaw or forgive him. Jeff says he would forgive him, grins at Jigsaw and then kills him with a chop saw since he only had one cartridge for the pistol. This also triggers the device that kills Lynn - which he did not know. Shortly before his death, Jigsaw plays a final tape on which he tells Jeff that his daughter has also been kidnapped and is locked in a small room. Soon she will be out of breath. To find her, Jeff would have to play another game. When Jigsaw dies, all the doors of the room where Jeff stays screaming close. A sequence of the daughter screaming follows.
background
- Filming began on May 8, 2006 and ended on June 19, 2006. The film was shot in Toronto, Canada .
- It was released in theaters in the USA on October 27, 2006 and in Germany on February 1, 2007.
- Production costs were estimated at $ 10 million. The film grossed around 165 million US dollars at box offices around the world, including around 80 million US dollars in cinemas in the USA and around 7.5 million in German cinemas
- Due to the commercial success of Saw III it was announced that three more sequels are planned with Saw IV , Saw V and Saw VI . They want to make Saw an annual institution and release another part every year on the weekend before Halloween in American cinemas.
- The set from Scary Movie 4 , which contains a parody of Saw , was used for the washroom in Saw III . The reason for this was that it was cheaper to use it than to make a replica again, explained director Darren Lynn Bousman in the audio commentary on the DVD.
- On September 7, 2007, the film was released on DVD in several versions in Germany. The DVD was not released in the unrated version in Germany, as the SPIO / JK issued a “criminally dubious” version for this version. Kinowelt published an exclusive Austrian edition of the film, which was released at the same time as the German edition, with the difference that this is the only one that contains the unrated version. The versions that have appeared:
- In Germany: two shortened FSK-approved versions (“No youth release” and “from 16 years”), as well as a SPIO / JK-approved version (R-rated) based on the theatrical version and now indexed by the BPjM. The latter is also available in a limited book collector's edition.
- In Austria: In addition, a version that has been completely unchecked by the FSK or SPIO is published as a Book Collectors Edition (limited to 30,000 copies) (Unrated). This DVD was, however, indicated in August 2007 and was on List B . After a court had examined the film, the film was classified as promoting violence and on List A vice carry.
- In France, a special edition was released on DVD labeled “16”. This is an edition in the original language as well as in French, in this version the film is 103 minutes long.
Reviews
"Disgusting violent and disgusting film that tries to make up for a lack of film-narrative competence with splatter effects that slide into the ridiculous ."
“Flashbacks illuminate the life of Jigsaw and his relationship with Amanda, as well as the background to almost all of the key scenes from the first two films. These flashbacks only make sense if you know parts one and two. Otherwise the viewer is so lost, as if he were stepping into a season of ' 24 ' or ' Lost '. 'Saw III' is something of a reference book for the entire trilogy. Unfortunately, very few dictionaries are as exciting as a novel. Director Darren Lynn Bousman, who also directed part two, is overwhelmed with the constant flashbacks. They disturb the tempo and, above all, the tension of the entire film. "
“Even the borderline brutal scenes in Eli Roth's torture spectacle ' Hostel ' lined up in a meaningful dramaturgy compared to Darren Lynn Bousman's dull-cheeked slaughter, because Roth succeeded in gradually showing the viewer his own dullness. […] 'Saw 3', on the other hand, knows nothing of such narrative tricks, shifts in perspective or reflections on violence. In terms of cynicism, the assertion regularly made in the 'Saw' films that Jigsaw's torture games could show the actors - and possibly also the film viewers - the value of their own lives cannot be outdone. But this would require a moralist of the rank of Hitchcock or Michael Haneke . The 'Saw' makers, on the other hand, are amateurs who believe they can transport the excesses of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib to the cinema without reflection. This mixture of imaginary poverty and pure business calculation is not only negligent, but also negligent. The focus is not on the danger of imitation, but on the fact that empathy can be trained away. Those who regularly watch such films close their eyes even when faced with everyday violence. "
“The second sequel, which was shot entirely in Toronto in just one month, does not place the slightest emphasis on a coherent narrative. The viewer not only has to face the extremely fast cut known from parts 1 and 2, but now the flashbacks to the first two Saw parts also begin with nice (and superfluous) regularity. […] Excessive torture as a supposedly effective means of explaining the value of life to film characters and possibly also viewers is nothing more than a cynical sales pitch; if, however, there is still no narrative skill, the end product can no longer be helped. "
Awards
The film was nominated for a Saturn Award and a Teen Choice Award . Tobin Bell was nominated for the 2007 MTV Movie Awards for Best Movie Villain .
Sequels
- 2007: Saw IV , directed by Darren Lynn Bousman.
- 2008: Saw V , directed by David Hackl .
- 2009: Saw VI , directed by Kevin Greutert .
- 2010: Saw 3D Completion , directed by Kevin Greutert.
Web links
- Saw III in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Saw III at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Saw III at Metacritic (English)
- Saw III in the online movie database
- Saw III in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Box Office Mojo.com: [1] , Box office results Saw 3.
- ↑ Saw III. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.filmzentrale.com/rezis/saw3jh.htm
- ↑ http://www.filmspiegel.de/filme/filme.php?id=3578
