Saw III- Tobin James
Interview: Tobin Bell on Saw III Morality
Of course, Jigsaw gets to decide who is worthy and who is not. “I don't think he’s judgmental, although it might seem like he is,” said actor Tobin Bell. “I think he just picks and chooses very specific situations and he does his absolute best to deal with those situations.”
For example, Bell thinks Jigsaw will let a lot of normal development issues go. “He makes judgments but he makes them in very specific windows, very small windows. There’s a lot of other stuff that happens every day that he just lets go by. He’s not more judgmental than any of us are. We all make judgments or observations about things. We’re all prejudiced in our own way perhaps. But I think he thinks very specifically and very scientifically. Somebody asked me yesterday, ‘How would he feel about college students who pretty much take a lot for granted. They don’t particularly appreciate their blessings. They’re always looking for the next excitement. Would he approve of that?’ and I said, ‘Yeah, I think he would. I think he’s smart enough to recognize that people are 19 only once in their life and it’s going to take them a while to be able to learn what the values are for them.’ That’s what I mean by he’s not judgmental.”
The judgments Jigsaw makes are actually carefully thought out, not arbitrary frustrations. “I think he sees things and goes, he sees and he goes, he sees and he goes, and then he’ll talk with Amanda and something will happen within that conversation and they will zero in and decide to act on a particular course because of a particular reason that’s this big. So yeah, there’s a judgment the same as there’s hard judgments to be made for all of us. Do we quit or do we go on? Do we ask for a raise? Do we not? You know what it is? We live in a world that’s not black and white. It’s a grey world. There’s a lot in between yes and no.”
Bell knows firsthand that Jigsaw’s message is getting out, as fans approach him on the street. “When 15, 16 year old kids, six of them will come up to me with their skateboards and they’ll say, ‘You’re the man, you’re the guy’ and I’ll say, ‘Well, yeah.’ And they say, ‘We love Saw, when’s the next one coming out?’ I say, ‘A couple of weeks.’ And I say, ‘So what is it about Saw that you like?’ And they say, ‘Well, geez, it’s so whoa.’ And the power of the whole thing, but then one of them will say, ‘And you know, it teaches you stuff.’ And I say, ‘Well, what do you mean by that? What is it teaching you?’ And they said, ‘Well, like when you said to the guy, “If you knew the exact moment of your own death, how would it change how you live your life?”’ The fact that 16-year-old kids are thinking about that or 15, is just great. I’m like okay, because I’ve been thinking about that for years and I still haven’t figured out how to do anything about it because you know how it is. One day, you get up and you’re like, ‘Ah, geez’, you’re bitching about this and complaining about that. You feel like, ‘Oh my God, I gotta do this and that’s terrible and the bills.’ Why is it that the human condition is such that our blessing, which is something that Jigsaw talks about all the time, our appreciation of blessings, why is it that we can’t seem to focus in on our blessings? It’s so much easier for us to focus on the negativities. And here you’ve got 16-year-old kids thinking about and talking to you about stuff like that. I’m like great!”
Saw III opens to theatres tomorrow, October 27th.
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