explaining to my non Saw fan friends the tragedy of Adam’s death and Lawrence feeling guilty and Amanda killing Adam and Hoffman killing her and then Lawrence killing Hoffman in the same place Adam died and
very strong image in my mind of how when lawrence goes back to practicing medicine sometimes he’ll be in the middle of surgery with his hands inside someone all covered in their blood and when he blinks, instead of whatever nameless patient it is this time lying on the table, it’s adam. sometimes this is horrifying and upsetting. sometimes it’s deeply erotic and horny. sometimes it’s both. it depends
people are talking about how he lied to lawrence; that's a fair point, but I think the fact that he lied to Lawrence and he's an honest person are two things that can coexist, while being contradictory. it's his CHARACTER that's honest, like how he says in the movie. photography is the study of the truth. you take a photo, it's simply an image of events that have happened, that can't be changed. (of course, you can doctor the photos, but that's not what adam does, so I think its irrelevant). his character is a contradiction to jigsaws, a man who knows what he is, and honestly thinks less of himself as shown in the script when he tells lawrence he's nothing. John is a man who hides behind a persona, thinking he is a God. the fact that he lied to lawrence in the beginning of the movie doesn't change the fact that through parts of Adam's character and his themes, we can see that his story is one of change and honesty, and despite that being jigsaws whole ideology, it got him killed. him lying to a man he was stalking while he was kidnapped and confused, thinking he may be behind it all, doesn't chance that.
Honestly Adam is the most honest and real person in the entire saw franchise. He doesn’t lie or hide things or pretend to be something that he is not, he is what he is and doesn’t hide that. He is a poor photographer who stalks people and lives in a shithole of an apartment, and he accepts that. Even his job is the very raw truth, as he says his camera can’t lie.
In a series where everyone lies and hides their true self, Adam is the exception. Sadly this honesty does not save him from his fate. He was unable to win, his game was rigged, and so he dies.
Even in death he exposes the raw truth, the cult of jigsaw was never about saving people, it was punishing them, and the way he died exposes that ugly fact.
man i hate all of you “lawrence didn’t come back for adam” truthers. you gotta be CRAZY delusional like me and think that lawrence pleaded on his hands and knees DAILY to get his little boyfriend from that crusty bathroom. like lawrence was heavy sobbing trying to get adam back. i am a lawrence tried so incredibly hard to save adam truther.
I feel like a great example of The Duality Of Reigen is how he manages to take out an entire squad of Claw goons with charisma and Sakurai's cursed cologne, but the manga reveals that the reason he knows how the cologne works is that one day he got bored, sprayed it directly into his own face, and lost a client when they arrived for their appointment to find him passed the fuck out on the office floor.