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When Adam wakes up in the tub, he opens the drain and the key to his cuffs go down the drain. What was the point? It’s almost certain when he wakes up he’ll pull the drainplug and if he doesn’t he grabs the key, undoes the cuff and leaves.
Am I missing something about the whole key in the tub thing.
That’s where the whole entire plot unravels (I mean, other than having the guy who ends up cutting his foot off uses an ounce of brainpower to try to get the cellphone by luring it in with his shirt, pants or leg). The movie pretends to say that everything has an easy out - but like you said, there’s no easy out to the cuff-down-the-drain. In fact, I can’t think of a way he’d ever be able to recover them - which is another flaw.
Asking about plot holes in movies shows you are concentrating too much on the trivial. Perhaps you need a lesson in setting priorities, like being placed in large cage where electrified spikes slowly pass through the gaps in the bars, narrowing you into the corner with the acid pit. You can slow the pace of the spikes by drawing off some of the current - like putting your forearm across the conveniently-labelled electrodes. It’ll only hurt at first, while the nerve cells are destroyed. One your arm is fully necrotic, you’ll get a chance to remove it in the chainsaw room next door. And never again will you put off your Christmas shopping until the last minute.
Oftentimes for a SAW trap, I can spot at least one work-around, or a way to jam or disable the mechanism. The more elaborate clockwork traps may amuse the audience, but the engineer in me starts looking for weaknesses.
I’ve only seen one Saw film, Saw III, and I couldn’t get over how implausible the whole scenario was. How does an old man on his death bed, helped by one slender female assistant, manage to kidnap half a dozen able bodied adults? One of the victims was very fat, how the hell did they even lift him to get him into the trunk of the car to take him to the building full of death machines? This bedridden man and his deranged female assistant then completely and impenetrably seal off a giant factory. How did they get the factory? Who did the actual labor of sealing it off and setting up the no win scenario machines? And they manage to do all this without leaving a giant trail of witnesses and paperwork?
At least Jason from the Friday 13th films was like, magic or a zombie or something, and that’s why he was so hard to stop. What’s the Saw killer’s explanation for a limitless supply of abandoned sealed off factories and easily kidnapped and transported victims?
This is the biggest question I always have about “death-trap” scenarios in movies, be they action or horror. It seems like the bad guy always manages to commandeer some gigantic factory, power plant, waste treatment plant, meat processing plant, steel mill, or otherwise dramatic and dangerous industrial environment. The only explanation is that these villains must have some high-up union friends.
The answer to the questions in this thread are spoilers for the rest of the series.[spoiler]The key goes down the drain because Jigsaw’s assistant is a psychopath. She likes to kill people for pleasure, and to that end she always makes sure the victims can’t successfully pass the test. Putting the key there in such a way as to ensure it goes down the drain was her doing.
This is directly contrary to Jigsaw’s purpose, so he puts the psycho assistant through her own Jigsaw test in Saw III. She does not pass the test.
Jigsaw has a second assistant, a strong, healthy male. If the fat guy in question is the one from the barbed wire in the first Saw, at that time Jigsaw was still healthy enough to lend a hand, plus he had both the guy and girl assistants.
The entire series was largely written in a couple chunks. It wasn’t a matter of writing the first movie, then starting over from scratch when they got a deal to do each sequel. It was mostly all mapped out from the beginning.
The female accomplice is introduced in the first movie and gives clues that she’s the accomplice, but we don’t get confirmation until the end of the second. The third movie is her test, the fourth introduces the male accomplice, and the fifth is the hunt for the male accomplice. Each movie progressively reveals backstory, with many, many callbacks to previous traps. (The guy in the barbed wire shows up in at least 3 of the movies.)[/spoiler]
Well, alternately… in this economy large industrial properties are being shut down every day. A recession is a deathtrap-builder’s candy store.