Saw Vii The Final Chapter Sparknotes

“Live or die, the choice is yours” (Saw VII: The Final Chapter). This is a very familiar quote we have all heard from any Saw film, and it really emphasizes the harsh reality of life. In the movie, Saw VII: The Final Chapter, a deadly conflict rages over Jigsaw's brutal legacy, as a group of Jigsaw survivors gather to seek the support of a fellow Jigsaw survivor Bobby Dagen, who wrote a book on his survival from Jigsaw and whose own dark secrets unleash a new surge of terror. Kevin Greutert’s, Saw VII: The Final Chapter, qualifies as a modern Captivity Narrative because it includes Jigsaw dehumanizing his victims by placing them in very gruesome situations, shows how uncivilized Jigsaw was being in these “games” he created, and forces his victims to come to terms with the fact that they are in a life or death situation. The movie is primarily about Bobby Dagen and his lies about the tests or games he was put through by Jigsaw. Jigsaw then uses that to his advantage by placing him into each trap he claimed to have been in to his readers in order to get Bobby to value honesty. In the reading from class “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” by Harriet Jacobs, she believes that there is no one who will ever really understand how severe slavery is unless they themselves have to …show more content…
Three of his allies are selected for these games. The first test is his publicist Nina, who kept his secret while editing his book and is the Speak No Evil Test. The second is his lawyer, Suzanne, who obviously defended him although she knew he was lying about his experience, which makes her to be part of the See No Evil Test. Finally, Dagen's best friend Cale who knows of his lie to gain consciousness, and has heard the truth from Bobby but acts as if he doesn't know, and of course makes him the Hear No Evil