Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or die trying...
This movie contains 58 potentially triggering events.
SPOILER
A character leaves and promises to bring help. It is left ambiguous what happens after. (What happens after is revealed in other movies in the series)
A woman is put in a death trap (she survives) and is later seen with mild injuries. A other and daughter are taken hostage, they're crying and menaced with a gun. The film goes to great length to show how scared they are. However, the overwhelming majority of the violence is committed against men
There is a lot of lying and general confusion about what is going on in the film, as well as characters hiding who they are and what their intentions are, but no gaslighting.
no but real pig uterus is used in the reverse beartrap scene - they just bought it from a chinese food place apparently so no worse than a movie buying a real steak for an actor to eat
A man uses a stethoscope to listen to a captive woman’s heartbeat. It clearly gratifies him to hear her fear, but it’s not explicitly sexual gratification.
A mother and child are bound and gagged and held at gunpoint and are shown throughout the movie. In a flashback, a woman wears a device over her head that is lodged into her mouth (it covers most of her face but her eyes).
Multiple victims of Jigsaw's traps are shown to have died (usually showing their bodies in the aftermath). A man has his head blown off by shotguns strapped to the ceiling. A man is shot in the stomach and dies.
I don't think so? Cancer isn't a disability. It's a terminal illness (obviously not in all cases, but it is in John's case). And I don't think there were any characters with any disabilities in the movie
The only officially confirmed deaths in the first film are Paul, Michael, Zep, Detective Tapp, and Detective Sing. While Lawrence's fate at the end of the first film is ambiguous, later films confirm that he did survive, albeit separated from his wife and daughter.
Lawrence meets with a young woman that briefly exchanged longing glances in a hotel room. It is implied they are going to have an affair. There is confirmation from Lawrence later however, that contradicts this directly. He specifically says he did not go through with it.
Sounds of people's injury throughout the movie (Spoilers/ Lawrence cutting off his own foot and screaming./The gun trap that kills detective Sing/the barbed wire trap/ etc)
there is one character that had been taken by jigsaw because of his past of self harm, and is briefly shown in a cage full of razor wire. the imagery can be fairly triggering if you're sensitive to it but no direct self harm is shown in this instance. There are other scenes where the characters hurt themselves in order to free themselves from traps, but it is in order to save themselves and not in the purposeful self harm type of way
not shown on screen, but a character is said to have attempted suicide by slitting his wrists but survived. jigsaw punishes him for this and talks about him very rudely, which could be very triggering if suicide is a sensitive topic for you
Adam constantly panicking through the film, but in the end, when he is in huge physical pain and psychological trauma, he's crying and breathes so heavily, it's unnerving, scary and pretty hard to watch
Adam and Lawrence are both electrocuted in the bathroom, it is a minor jumpscare but it is sudden. There is a sudden cut away to a car chase between Zep and Detective Tapp. The editing of the film in general is very fast paced so occasionally there are sudden loud noises (slamming, yelling, etc)
Screenwriter Leigh Whannell and director James Wan have confirmed that the two male main characters' relationship has a romantic angle. However, their fates at the end of the first movie are ambiguous. From the sequels we learn that one definitely survived while the other was probably killed, however, neither of these is made clear in the film.
it plays into some racial stereotypes. the only Black character is quick to become aggressive, and an East Asian woman is portrayed as hypersexual, she is a med student and very flirty with a married doctor who she later has an affair with
While their ages are never stated, Lawrence has an affair with a med student and it is implied that she is younger than him (but she is a consenting adult).
multiple male characters cry and none of them are ridiculed for it. however, there is a male character who is confirmed to have mental health issues and is tortured for attempting suicide