Saw | ContraPoints

In 2004, Lionsgate released a  movie that shocked the world, becoming a surprise box office hit despite  its controversial depictions of extreme violence. The name of that movie, of course,  was Fahrenheit 9/11. –I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Now, watch this drive. –Now, I was born in the 1900s, before the towers  fell, but I never saw that movie because it was rated R and I was a minor. And I couldn't get anyone to go with me because everyone said that it was liberal bulls***. –Like husbands carrying their dead wives and things like that. That was extremely difficult to deal with cause you're  like, you know, shoot. –But one October afternoon, in an act of teenage rebellion, I went to the theater myself and I bought a ticket to the   Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. This was my  cover story. I crossed the box office threshold, intending to begin my new life as a juvenile delinquent. But it turned out Fahrenheit 9/11 wasn’t playing anymore. And I was determined to commit some kind cinema crime,   so I just snuck into a random movie called  Saw, which I knew nothing about and was in   no way psychologically prepared for. In  this movie, Saw, there's these two guys,   Dr. Lawrence Gordon and Very F***ing Confused.  –My name is Very F***ing Confused. –Also known as Adam. They wake up in a grungy bathroom with their ankles chained to pipes and realize they've   been kidnapped by a serial killer known as Jigsaw, who appears to his victims in the guise of a gay   clown riding a tricycle to deliver his signature  phrase, "I want to play a game." –I want to play a game. –I want to play a game. –I want to play a game. –I want to play a game. –I want to play a   game. –I want to play a game. –I'd like to play a  game. –You want to play games, motherf***er? –Now, these games, or 'traps' are like ramshackle  torture-themed escape rooms, where the victim has   to suffer to survive.