Saw II

. During the time when her daughter is with Hades, Demeter becomes depressed and causes winter. (disputed — see talk page). However, Hades tricked Persephone into eating the food of the dead so Zeus decreeded Persephone would spend six months with Demeter and six months with Hades. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Although some argue that he depended on a significant amount of uncuntrolable events to happen, that is not the case because as we later learn it was all a recording and he knew before the cops arrived what was going on. Zeus ordered Hades to return her to Demeter, the goddess of the earth and her mother.
Even more so than then the previous film, Jigsaw's diabolic "games" require a large amount of planning, causing some film critics to liken his murderous schemes to Rube Goldberg machines. In Greek mythology, Hades kidnapped Persephone to be his wife.

Jigsaw is shown, still sitting in Matthew's van, badly beaten but smiling. In addition to this, novels such as Ethan Frome also use a winter setting to mirror the bleak, frozen feelings that the characters harbor. Matthews, chained to a pipe, is left in the room alone only with the light from his flashlight and his gun now just out of reach. There are many films in which a winter setting plays an important role, Fargo being an example. "Game over," she says, iterating Jigsaw's catchphrase. Other uses of winter in the graphic arts occur in Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland. Matthews then watches helplessly as Amanda closes the door on him. The land of Frigia is also featured in the serial Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.

In a series of flashbacks we understand why Jigsaw was happy to sit back while Matthews tore his work up and see that Amanda was the one who brought Daniel back to be placed in the safe. In Alex Raymond's comic strip, Flash Gordon, there is a land called Frigia, where it is always winter. Playing the tape, Matthews learns that Amanda has become Jigsaw's protégé and has now taken his place. LeGuin's novel The Left Hand of Darkness is set on a planet named Winter. When Matthews wakes up, he finds an audio cassette player lying next to him. Ursula K. He had been there already when the SWAT team came into the building and found Jigsaw, two hours earlier; had Matthews followed the rules to Jigsaw's "game", he would have found his son "in a safe, secure place" just as Jigsaw had told him. Winter is one movement in Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons;" and there are many examples of four paintings, all showing the same scene in different seasons.

The timer in the room at Wilson Steel expires and a safe across the room opens to reveal Daniel, wearing an oxygen mask, weary but alive. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, where it was always winter but never Christmas. The attacker removes the mask, it is Amanda. S. Matthews drops to the floor. Some use winter to suggest death, as in Robert Frost's "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening." Some use it to suggest the absence of hope, as in C. He approaches cautiously, but the person inside, wearing the same animal mask from the first film, leaps up and stabs him in the leg with a syringe. Winter is highly symbolic of many things to many people and has been used to represent various things by artists in all media.

Matthews gets into the darkened bathroom, and sees someone lying in the bathtub. Although causes include genetic disposition and stress, the prevailing environmental influence is decreased exposure to light due to winter weather patterns. A shot of a syringe here explains how Daniel has survived the exposure to gas. Symptoms include sleeping more, tiredness, depression, and physical aches. Meanwhile Detective Matthews enters through a back door, finds the open trapdoor and goes down to search for Daniel. The severest cases of this type of depression is diagnosed as seasonal affective disorder (SAD). We now know how Jigsaw was able to say 'I haven't looked at the monitors for a while but I assume [Daniel] is still sitting in a corner...'. Around winter months, a gloominess, called "winter blues" or "February blahs" or "Holiday depression"-- during November and December in the northern hemisphere-- is informally noted amongst people.

For Kerry and the movie audience it turns out that, as mentioned above, the images on the monitors, shown in the movie in parallel with the events filmed by the video cameras, were not a live feed, but were showing a recording of earlier events, and that the broadcast location where the SWAT team has arrived is not the location where the events have taken place. Passing seasons change the habits and moods of people. While the SWAT team enters what they and Kerry assume to be the same house, Kerry is watching the monitors, confused that the cameras aren't showing them in the house. Larger plants, particularly deciduous trees, usually let their upper part die, but their roots are still protected by the snow layer. He moves in to kill Amanda, Daniel suddenly jumps forward, crushing Xavier's ankle and, using the hacksaw from the first movie, slits Xavier's throat, killing him. As for perennial plants, many small ones profit from the insulating effects of snow by being buried in it. Xavier, now insane from the poison, takes his knife and slices a section of skin off the back of his neck. Annual plants never survive the winter.

Amanda tells Xavier that Daniel is dead and that if he kills her, he won't be able to find out the number on his own neck. To survive the harshness of winter, many animals have developed different behavioral and morphological adaptations:. Lawrence Gordon's severed foot are still there, in a state of advanced decay and covered with fungus and mold. This effect is compounded by the larger distance that the light must travel through the atmosphere, allowing it to filter more of this already limited heat. The bodies of Adam and Zep, and Dr. In regions experiencing winter, the same amount of solar radiation is spread out over a larger area. He follows them, cornering them in the infamous bathroom from the first movie. During winter in either hemisphere, the radiation from the Sun hits that hemisphere at an oblique angle.

They go through the hatch just as Xavier breaks through. When it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, the Southern Hemisphere faces the Sun more directly and thus experiences warmer temperatures than the Northern Hemisphere. Amanda pushes aside the safe, revealing a trap door underneath. It is this variation that primarily brings about the seasons. Amanda and Daniel retreat to the first room as Xavier tries breaking through the door to get at them. The planet is tilted at an angle of 23°27' (23 degrees 27 minutes) to the plane of its orbit, and this causes different latitudes on the Earth to directly face the Sun as the Earth moves through its orbit. He finds the dead bodies of the victims littered throughout the rooms. For example, winter occurs in the Northern Hemisphere when the Earth is closest to the Sun.

Matthews gets inside, still believing that the video images were live. The popular belief that winter is caused by the Earth moving away from the Sun in its orbit is not true. Jigsaw gives Matthews the key to get inside. Our planet remains tilted on its axis, and this has a dramatic effect on the weather. Jigsaw shows Matthews the house in which the events has taken place. Elsewhere, in Chinese astronomy (and other East Asian calenders), winter is taken to commence on or around November 7, with the Jiéqì known as (立冬 lì dōng, literally "establishment of winter".). Almost immediately after this, the police finally locate the broadcast location of the video feed and take off for that location. However, in the United Kingdom and Ireland the winter solstice is traditionally considered as midwinter, the winter season beginning November 1 on All Hallows or Samhain.

Without telling his team, Matthews leaves with Jigsaw in his van. In meteorology, it is by convention counted instead as the whole months of June, July and August in the Southern Hemisphere and December, January and February in the Northern Hemisphere. Xavier reads her number and leaves her to die in the contraption. Astronomically, it starts with the winter solstice (around December 21 in the Northern Hemisphere and June 21 in the Southern Hemisphere), and ends with the spring equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere and September 23 in the Southern Hemisphere). She discovers too late that the blades are arranged similar to a Chinese finger trap, preventing her from removing her arms once inside; the edges dig deeper into her flesh the harder she pulls. A rare meteorological phenomenon encountered during winter is ice fog, which is composed of ice crystals suspended in the air and happening only at very low temperatures (at least 10 degrees below zero Fahrenheit). On the underside of the box are two holes just wide enough to put one's arms through, once pushed past the blades covering them. Blizzards often develop and cause many transportation delays.

While pursuing Amanda and Daniel, Xavier comes across Addison who has fallen victim to another of Jigsaw's contraptions - a glass box suspended from the ceiling that contains an antidote. Outside the equatorial areas, winter is cold and (particularly in the Northern Hemisphere) snowy. She goes back to rescue Daniel. Measured astronomically, winter begins on the shortest day of the year, and each day of winter has more sunlight than the previous one. Amanda finds Jonas's body and realizes Xavier means to kill them all. Nighttime predominates the winter season, and in some regions it has the highest rate of precipitation as well as prolonged dampness due to permanent snow cover in such areas. The effects of the toxin are starting to become more severe, and Laura succumbs to the nerve gas. Meteorological winter is the season having the shortest days (which vary greatly according to latitude) and the lowest temperatures.

Addison finds a picture concealing a photo of Daniel and Matthews together, marked "Father and son"; this may make the others hate Daniel for being the son of the cop who framed them all. . He kills Jonas by hitting his head with a club with large nails sticking out, and then goes after the others. However, many cultures in Europe consider winter to begin in November. These numbers are supposed to be the combination to the safe in the first room which holds an antidote. Contemporary meteorology takes winter to be the months of December, January, and February in the Northern Hemisphere and June, July, and August in the Southern Hemisphere. The different colors represent colors of the rainbow and putting them in the order of the rainbow will unlock the safe. Depending on place and culture, what is considered to be the start and end of winter vary.

It's in the back of all your minds.". In areas farther from the equator, winter is often marked by snow. In the house, for the movie audience seemingly meanwhile, Xavier has snapped and is trying the kill his fellow captives to retrieve the different colored numbers written on the back of their necks (the answer to Jigsaw's cryptic clue "You all possess the combination. It is the season with the shortest days and the lowest temperatures. Savagely beaten and battered by Matthews, Jigsaw utters his "Game over," catchphrase and finally agrees to take Matthews to the house, but only if he can take him alone. Winter is one of the four seasons of temperate zones. After growing tired of listening to Jigsaw and helplessly watching one captive after another die while the timer runs down, Matthews finally snaps and unleashes his rage on the old man. Most notorious however was an unofficial strike by gravediggers.

Daniel helps Amanda out of the pit. Lorry drivers, train drivers, nurses, most public sector employees, refuse collectors, and workers at Ford Motors all went on strike. The door's timer expires, sealing the door forever. The Winter of Discontent is the name for the British winter of 1978-79, during which there were widespread strikes. He races to the lock but fumbles with it. Russian Winters of 1812/13 and 1941/42. Stabbed with dozens of needles, Amanda finally finds it and gives it to Xavier. Mice and voles typically live under the snow layer.

Xavier grabs Amanda and throws her into the pit, yelling at her to dig through them to find the key. Snow also affects the ways animals behave, as many take advantage of the insulating properties of snow by burrowing in it. The message says a key is in the pit that will open a door concealing another antidote. The heavier winter coat made this season a favorite for trappers who sought more profitable skins. Daniel pulls back a sheet to reveal a pit full of syringes. The coat is then shed following the winter season to allow better cooling. On the tape, Jigsaw condemns him for his life as a drug pusher and states that if he wants to escape, he must wallow in the filth that he made others wallow in. This improves the heat-retention qualities of the fur.

Forcing open a door into another room, the captives find another tape, this one marked for Xavier. Some fur-coated mammals grow a heavier fur coat during the winter. Henceforth, Jigsaw resolved to test the human ability to overcome great suffering in order to save his or her life. Examples are the ptarmigan, the arctic fox, the weasel, the white-tailed jack rabbit or the mountain hare. However, Jigsaw survived the suicide attempt, despite severe injuries. The color of the fur or plumage are changed to white in order to be confused with snow and thus, to retain their cryptic coloration year round. Through a series of flashbacks, Jigsaw is revealed to be a terminal cancer patient, who attempted suicide by driving his car of a cliff. Resistance is observed when an animal endures winter, but changes in ways such as color and musculature.

Matthews is on the verge of cracking, but decided he has no other choice but to hear Jigsaw out. This is the case of squirrels, beavers, skunks, badgers and raccoons. All the while, the timer is ticking away in the room with the monitors. Some animals store food for the winter and live upon it instead of hibernating completely. The game is simple, he just has to sit with Jigsaw--by himself--and listen to what he has to say. For example, gophers, bears, frogs, snakes or bats hibernate. The Jigsaw killer insists that Matthews has to play a game to save his son. These animals "sleep" during winter and only come out as warm weather returns.

Obi is burned to death before they can get him out, and both antidotes are lost. Hibernation is a state of reduced metabolic activity during the winter. Obi climbs inside to retrieve them, the door closes and the furnace ignites. the cardinal do not migrate. Laura finds another door which leads to the basement, with another tape marked for Obi which reveals how he had assisted Jigsaw to get the others in the house and explaining that there are two antidote syringes inside a large furnace in the room. However some birds, i.e. The terrified captives begin to explore the house. Migration is a common effect of winter upon animals, affecting basically birds.

Amanda reveals to the others that she has had to play one of Jigsaw's games before, and pleads with them that they have to follow his "rules". Ice Sculpture - elaborate sculptures are carved out of blocks of ice. The gun discharges into Gus's eye, killing him. Ice diving - a type of penetration diving where the dive takes place under ice. The lock is rigged to fire a gun pointing directly at the eyehole. Ice fishing - the sport of catching fish with lines and hooks through an opening in the ice on a frozen body of water. The key has a note warning them not to use it to open the door in the room, but Xavier ignores the message, and turns the key in the lock while Gus looks through the eyehole. Ice boating - a means of travel in a specialized boat similar in appearance to a sailboat but fitted with skis or runners (skates) and designed to run over ice instead of (liquid) water.

Amanda, (a survivor from the original film) breaks through a loose section of a brick wall in the room they found themselves in, and finds a key and a tape recorder containing a taped message from Jigsaw explaining their predicament: they have been exposed to a deadly toxic nerve gas (specifically sarin, which Jigsaw himself references as having been used in the real-life gas attack on the Tokyo Subway) and will die within 2 hours unless they find the antidotes that are hidden around the house (they are given the clue that they all have the combination to the safe in the back of their mind, and that the combination can be found "over the rainbow"). Ice Skating - a means of traveling on ice with skates, narrow (and sometimes parabolic) blade-like devices moulded into special boots (or, more primitively, without boots, tied to regular footwear). The story switches to the captives in the house. Snowman building - creating a man-like model out of snow. The police also believe this. Snowshoeing - a means of travel in which one is able to walk on top of the snow by increasing the surface area of their feet. However, by showing those images in parallel with the events filmed by the video cameras, the movie suggests that it is a live video feed. Snowboarding - an increasingly common sport where participants strap a composite board to their feet and slide down a snow-covered mountain.

The images on the monitors are not a live feed, but are showing a recording of earlier events. Snowball fight - a physical game in which snowballs are thrown with the intention of hitting someone else. He later notices that all other seven are people he has framed for crimes they did not commit. Sledding - a downhill activity where the user uses a sled to glide down the hill. On one of the monitors, Matthews sees a room with eight people forced to play Jigsaw's latest game; among them is Matthews's own son, Daniel. Skiing - the activity of gliding over snow using what is now fiberglass planks called skis that are strapped to the skiers' feet with ski bindings. As they start to take him away, he directs Matthews and the others to an adjoining room, which contains several monitors showing various rooms of a house, along with an electronic timer counting down from 2 hours. Bobsledding - a winter sport in which teams make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked purpose-built iced tracks in a gravity-powered, steerable sled.

Very ill due to his advanced stage cancer, he offers no further resistance as the SWAT team handcuffs him. After some of the accompanying SWAT team fall prey to one of Jigsaw's booby traps, they find Jigsaw. After his initial reluctance, his former partner, Kerry, finally convinces him to join the team entering the building to arrest Jigsaw. Detective Matthews is called to the scene, as the deceased was his informant, and discovers a message scrawled on the ceiling which reads, "Look Closer, Detective Matthews." Matthews spots an engraving on the metal contraption, and believes he knows where Jigsaw is - the Wilson Steel building.

The terrified man fails to extract the key in time and is killed. As he gets up from the chair, he triggers a timer built into the device. A scalpel has been left for the man to carve the key out from his eye socket, if he chooses to do so. The TV cuts to the man lying on an operating table with a shadowy figure standing over him, as Jigsaw tells him (and an x-ray photo confirms) that the key to unlock the device has been implanted behind his eye.

When the timer goes off, the device will snap closed, impaling the man's head with several sharp nails lining the inside of the device (like an iron maiden). Jigsaw's recorded message tells the man that as punishment for being a police informant, spying upon and betraying others, and for not appreciating life, he has to play Jigsaw's "game". A nearby TV turns on, showing the familiar "clown" figure Jigsaw employed in the first film. A device is secured around his neck.

The film starts off with a man waking up alone, seated in a chair in a grungy, sealed room.
. . Darren Lynn Bousman took over the directing duties of the film, and also co-wrote the story's script with Leigh Whannell, the original film's co-writer.

It was released in most parts of the world on October 28, 2005, but not released in Australia until November 17, 2005. Saw II is the sequel to the 2004 horror/splatter/thriller film Saw. Made for only $4 million, Saw 2 grossed over $116 million worldwide, which includes $87 million in the United States. One of the posters for the upcoming Scary Movie 4 (2006) parodied the "close-up on severed fingers" poster for this film.

Following the film's opening weekend gross of $31.5m, Lions Gate Films commissioned Saw III (which is scheduled to be released on October 27, 2006). The entire movie was shot in 25 days. The whole film was shot in one building. The original poster was used for most other countries, however.

A new poster was produced, still using the fingers but not explicitly showing that they're severed. In August 2005, the MPAA rejected the poster for Saw II which used two severed fingers to resemble "II" in the movie's title. Tagline: Oh yes...there will be blood.. Donnie Wahlberg as Erick Matthews.

Emmanuelle Vaugier as Addison. Shawnee Smith as Amanda. Glenn Plummer as Jonas. Tony Nappo as Gus.

Beverley Mitchell as Laura. Dina Meyer as Kerry. Erik Knudsen as Daniel Matthews. Franky G as Xavier.

John Fallon as Video Techie. Tim Burd as Obi. Tobin Bell as John/Jigsaw.