Mar 12, 2024
Occured to me that people have probably studied Saw in relation to terrorism. Ran a search and was promptly rewarded with a journal article on the topic that I will read later, but the abstract alone is pretty juicy: "The article analyses the reasons for the popularity of the Saw films in a post-9/11 context, concentrating in particular on the perverse pleasure American audiences derive from the franchise's suggestion that terror is a self-imposed punishment that takes place in highly scripted situations designed to reveal moral strength, rather than a threatening force imposed from the outside, seemingly at random and with no warning."