Originally posted by the ninjak
I've always wanted to one day sit down and absorb the "actual" plot of the entire run.
Maybe it's actually good and it wasn't released in the right way to harness a devoted audience.
I work on and off as a projectionist and was able to view to a degree all of them and there always seemed to be a heavy level of manipulation involved.
I also like the idea of how if you survive the tests you have a new awareness and have to aid Jigsaw in his vision.
Very parasitic unless you die from th virus you become the virus.
Is Jigsaw an actual necessary push in the right direction of evolution.
Cool villain/hero.
It's cool how it has created such a large myth over the last seven years, as large as it takes other series decades to create (granted, Saw came out with a new one every year).
I think it devoted a huge devoted audience. The movies totaled about $415 million in the U.S. and $851 million worldwide. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/series/Saw.php
Yes, each one has its manipulation. They all have a twist at the end that points out some details that were either unmentioned, ignored, or were a play on words.
You don't have to aid Jigsaw in his vision. It's just revealed throughout the series that some of his survivors end up helping him because they see how the traps helped them and they believe in the cause.
You see in some of the movies that the games don't always help. The survivors have to accept what Jigsaw meant to teach them. It's like Jigsaw's the teacher and the survivor is the student. The teacher can teach, but if the student is focusing on something else, no learning will take place.