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...subjects will take orders against their best instincts. Here, Jigsaw has two rationales for his eccentric behavior. One is to punish people he believes are moral transgressors, though his judgments tend to be hasty and draconian. The other is more personal: Jigsaw, eventually revealed as John Kramer (Tobin Bell), is suffering from a fatal brain tumor, and he wants to prove that only having faced death can a man truly savor life. Or, as he puts it a bit more proscriptively in Saw II, "Those who don't appreciate life do not deserve life...
...many variations on body-piercing and self-puncturing can there be before the audience tires of the repetition, or gets exasperated and shouts, "You've been punk'd"? It also has a much larger cast, all of them seemingly graduates of the Off-Hollywood School of Bad Acting. Only Bell, hoarse and recriminating in fine Old Testament God fashion, can summon the depraved grandeur his character requires...
Derrick A. Bell Jr.—HLS’s first black tenured professor who left the faculty in 1990 to protest its lack of diversity—said that Harvard should follow Brown’s lead in appointing a panel to investigate the University’s ties to slavery...
...Rather than rely on the retelling of old stories, Brown appointed a commission to review its history and found that slavery contributed to financing and building the school,” said Bell. “[I] have heard similar stories about Harvard and hope that school officials will appoint a similar body to review the early history of the school...
...stories of slave labor helping to build Harvard Yard and money earned from slavery aiding in its financing [are true], then suitable steps to both acknowledge the facts and make amends should be taken,” Bell added...