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...Abiding Citizen” wants to be two totally distinct movies. On the one hand, it aspires to take a play from the “Saw?? franchise and showcase various gruesome and elaborate killing mechanisms. On the other, it wants to be an incisive analysis of the faults of our country’s current legal system. Gray inserts a few not-so-subtle shots of a William Penn statue to imply a moral connection between the just colonist and Clyde. (The only real connection seems to be that they were both in jail at some point...
...from sophomores Kate Mills and Katy Hinkle and freshman Meghan Leddy, and despite often getting three or four swimmers to the wall before the Tigers’ second finisher, the sheer volume of Princeton wins was too much to overcome.“Anyone who was watching the meet saw??that we were a team,” Morawski said. “Swimming as fast as we did and staying that close to Princeton without getting the wins—that was the group effort.”The Crimson’s distance freestylers exemplified that...
...Saw?? is no grindhouse B-movie slash-a-thon, either. It all comes back to integrity: The films don’t need all of that money, and their creators know it. True, the budgets have gone up since the original, but so has inflation, and they haven’t risen at the rate of, say, the “Hostel” franchise, which more than doubled its budget from one to two, even though the sequel brought in less than half the cash of the original...
...Where this particular franchise is concerned, it’s not the filmmakers who have the credibility. It’s Jigsaw. Nowhere in “Saw?? is there one shred of doubt that every single one of Jigsaw’s victims deserves what he gets. We don’t delight in their distress per se, but there is a wholesome schadenfreude in seeing the guilty squirm...
...trouble is, we want that in the real world, too. As the “Saw?? franchise really started to heat up with the third release, the media responded with a flurry of articles about how torture porn raises our appetite for actual torture—quick, painful, cheap justice. President Bush tried to sell us his own Jigsaw level of certitude, marketing himself as the decider, the protector of the homeland, the banisher of the evil-doers, and we elected him—twice. Last week proved that we’ve learned our lesson: Absolute justice...