Saws Unbeatable Trap Can The Flammable Jelly Victim Possibly Escape

Saw’s Unbeatable Trap: Can The Flammable Jelly Victim Possibly Escape?

The ‘Flammable Jelly’ trap in Saw is only shown briefly, but it still manages to baffle in terms of how to actually beat such a confounding trap.

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Saws Unbeatable Trap Can The Flammable Jelly Victim Possibly Escape

The Jigsaw killer from the Saw franchise has concocted some infamous traps, but one trap in particular seems near impossible to beat. The original Jigsaw killer, also known as John Kramer, operates from the viewpoint that all of his traps are beatable, therefore believing himself to have a moral advantage over other killers. Kramer states that his Saw traps are actually not intended to kill, and victims will survive if they have a strong enough will to live. Kramer begins his serial spree after being diagnosed with cancer, which made him realize how precious life is. As a result, his victims tend to be those whom he deems do not have a big enough appreciation for life.

In the first film of the franchise, Saw, a menagerie of crime scenes left by Jigsaw’s games are shown throughout the film as part of an ongoing investigation into the murders. One of these crime scenes shows a burnt corpse in a room. A flashback reveals the corpse to be a man named Mark Wilson. The room is dark and has thousands of numbers written on the wall, shards of glass covering the floor, and in the middle, there is a safe with a candle and some matches on top of it. Mark is naked and covered in flammable jelly, and told by Jigsaw through one of his signature tapes that he also has a poison running through his veins, just to make the trap eviler. Mark has to light the candle, being careful not to set himself alight, and walk over the glass to illuminate the numbers on the wall. A specific combination of numbers will open the safe, which of course contains the antidote.

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This ‘Flammable Jelly’ trap doesn’t fit Kramer’s beliefs that all of Jigsaw’s traps are beatable. This specific trap instead seems like random tortuous things thrown together mercilessly. It isn’t stated by Jigsaw that the correct numbers on the wall will be grouped together, or written in a different color, or emboldened to make them stand out. So, Mark seemingly has to escape his trap through trial and error trying a multitude of different combinations. He also suffers the fate of either the poison killing him first, or accidentally burning himself alive as he desperately tries to make his way through the numbers as quick as possible. Rather than being built on the idea that the trap is beatable if the victim has a will to survive, it seems to be built on cruelty and luck–a lot like Amanda’s unbeatable traps.

There is the further complication, too, of why Mark Wilson was chosen by Jigsaw as a victim. His tape states that Mark claims health insurance money because he is seriously ill, but Jigsaw says he’s seen him “up and about”, therefore he couldn’t possibly be ill. This in itself seems a weak reason, even for Kramer who has a variety of problematic reasons for choosing his victims, as he couldn’t possibly tell by mere observation whether Mark was seriously ill or not.

This particular Saw trap was shown for a minute or so in the film, which may explain why it seems so brashly thought through, but it nonetheless baffles as to how to efficiently beat it. Saw’s disturbing traps have become iconic as pop culture phenomenons over the years, being deeply dissected in terms of how to triumph specific traps in the most efficient (and least deadly) ways possible. The ‘Flammable Jelly’ trap from the first franchise installment, though, is nearly unbeatable unless the victim has luck on their side.

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