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''Saw III'' is a 2006 American horror film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman from a screenplay by Leigh Whannell and story by James Wan and Whannell. It is the third installment in the seven-part ''Saw'' franchise and stars Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Angus Macfadyen, Bahar Soomekh, and Dina Meyer. ''Saw III'' marks the first appearances of Costas Mandylor and Betsy Russell, albeit minor roles; they would later become major characters in the series. The story follows Jeff Denlon, a man who, after his son is killed in a hit-and-run, is put through a series of tests by Jigsaw in order to try and let go of his vengeance for the man that killed his son. Meanwhile, a bed-ridden John Kramer has his apprentice Amanda Young kidnap Jeff's wife, Lynn, who is tasked with keeping him alive for one final test before he dies. Development began right after the successful opening weekend of ''Saw II''. Filming took place in Toronto from May to June 2006. Whannell aimed to make the story more emotional than previous installments, particularly with the Amanda and Jigsaw storyline. The film is dedicated to producer Gregg Hoffman who died on December 4, 2005. ''Saw III'' was released on and was a financial success, opening to $33.6 million and grossing $80.2 million in the United States and Canada. It is the highest-grossing film of the series in the international market with $84.6 million and the highest-grossing film in the series with $164.8 million worldwide. It received mixed to negative reviews from critics. Bell was nominated for "Best Villain" at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards and the film received nominations for a Saturn Award as "Best Horror Film" and Teen Choice Award. ''Saw III'' was released to DVD and Blu-ray Disc on and topped the charts selling 2.5 million units in its first week. It was followed by ''Saw IV'', released in October 2007. ==Plot== After Amanda Young seals him in the bathroom, Eric Matthews escapes his shackle by breaking his foot with a toilet tank cover. Six months later, he is still missing. A SWAT team led by Lieutenant Daniel Rigg discovers the site of a Jigsaw game in which the victim, Troy, had to escape a bomb by ripping chains from his body. Rigg calls Detectives Mark Hoffman and Allison Kerry, who is guilt-ridden over Matthews' disappearance, to the scene. Kerry points out that the door was welded shut, breaking Jigsaw's modus operandi of giving his victims a chance to escape. She is abducted from her home that night while reviewing Troy's tape and awakens in a harness that is hooked into her ribs. She manages to retrieve the key from a suspended beaker of acid and unlocking it before the timer expires, but it tears her rib cage apart anyway, killing her. Lynn Denlon, a depressed doctor, is abducted from the hospital. She is brought by Amanda Young to John Kramer, who is now bed-ridden from cancer, and is instructed to keep him alive until the other victim, Jeff, has completed his game. As Kramer explains the rules, Amanda locks a collar around Lynn's neck that is connected to Kramer's heart rate monitor and will detonate if he dies or she moves out of range. Jeff awakens in a box in an abandoned meatpacking plant and learns from a microcassette recorder that he must undergo tests which will lead him to "the man responsible for the loss of his child". Flashbacks show that after his son Dylan was killed by a drunk driver three years ago, Jeff became unstable. As a result, he is now estranged from his wife and neglects his daughter Corbett. The first victim, Danica Scott, was the only witness to Dylan's death and refused to testify in court. She is naked and chained at the wrists in a meat freezer between two poles which begin spraying ice-cold water at random intervals. Though Danica convinces Jeff to help her, she freezes to death before he retrieves the key. The second victim, Judge Halden, sentenced the killer to only six months in prison. He is chained at the neck to the bottom of a large vat which begins filling with liquefied pig corpses. To retrieve the key, Jeff must also incinerate his son's belongings; he reluctantly does so and saves Halden. The third victim, Timothy Young, is the killer himself. He is strapped to a machine that will twist his limbs and neck in turn until they break. The key is tied to the trigger of an enclosed shotgun. Jeff eventually decides to help Timothy, but the shotgun discharges and kills Halden as he retrieves the key and he is unable to free Timothy before his neck breaks. Unable to reason with Amanda, Lynn performs an improvised surgery on Kramer's head to relieve pressure on his brain. He hallucinates about a blonde-haired woman during the surgery and declares his love out loud, which Amanda misinterprets and distresses over. As she leaves, flashbacks show her becoming Kramer's protégée, abducting Adam for the bathroom game, and returning a few days later to give Adam a mercy killing out of guilt. In the present, she reads a letter addressed to her which drives her to hysterics. After the surgery, Lynn and Kramer speak privately and Lynn admits the ordeal has renewed her appreciation for her family. Amanda returns to tell Kramer that Jeff completed his tests, but refuses to remove the collar. It is soon revealed that Amanda is disillusioned with Kramer's philosophy and does not give her victims, including Troy and Kerry, a chance to live. It is also revealed she fought with Matthews when he escaped the bathroom. She hints at killing Matthews, though Kramer believes she left him for dead. Jeff arrives just as Amanda shoots Lynn in the back. He shoots Amanda in the neck with a gun assembled during the tests. As she slowly dies, Kramer sadly reveals that Lynn's game was hers: aware of her inescapable games and unwilling to let a murderer inherit his legacy, he tried to test her will for her subjects to live, even hiding his knowledge of Jeff and Lynn's marriage. After Jeff sees to his wife, Kramer offers to call an ambulance for Lynn if Jeff takes one last test: to choose between killing Kramer and forgiving him. Jeff tells Kramer he forgives him and slashes his throat with a power saw. The sickroom door seals itself as Kramer plays a tape which reveals that Jeff has failed his test by killing Kramer, the only person left who knows Corbett's whereabouts. In order to save Corbett, Jeff must play another game. The tape ends as Kramer dies, and the collar detonates and kills Lynn, leaving Jeff trapped in the sickroom with the three corpses. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Saw III」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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