The ring
The film "The Ring" is about a young girl who is terribly murdered by her unruly mother. The story shows how the young girl gets people to realise how she was killed in a very disturbing way. The main way to show this is to kill them in a similar way, unjustified and terrifying. Also the fact that you feel you have no control over of what's going to happen to you once you've viewed the tape. It took seven days for her to die in the circumstances that she was in. The person who her message gets through to is Rachel, a New York journalist, who enlists the help of her ex-husband Noah, a video expert and her less than normal son Aiden who is also Noah's son. Her investigations, along with Noah, eventually lead to Noah's death.The film is definitely a horror as there is a lot of suspense and uncertainty, this is shown right from the opening sequence when Becca and Katie are talking on the bed disusing a supposed killer tape and the possible outcomes of watching the tape. Then one of the girls admits to viewing a weird tape the previous week, then to shock you one of them acts out what she thinks will happen to you if you watch the tape. When you realise that she is pretending you feel relieved. One of the ideas the girls had about
At the funeral Aiden decides to venture up the stairs to Katie's room to see whether she has left anything for him in her room. The director of "Ringu" stated that Japan had seen some very violent and bad things happening in the Japanese society, like the Aum Doomsday cult and the insurance killing incident, where people killed themselves for money. The girls at the start of the movie are alone and when the phone rings the music also helps build suspense up until they answer the phone. Aiden also plays a large part in solving the mystery with his drawings that depict the events of about a week ahead of time. Mainly the plot builds up the rhythm of suspense/shock and resolution but the music also helps the rhythm. All she wants to do is kill people and someone was trying to stop her from fulfilling this need. The scene with the two girls is a disaster waiting to happen and you can also predict what's going to happen, but not how it will happen. In my opinion "The Ring" is one of the best movies of the century so far. Hit by a period of time when trade was bad, the technology market crashed. Things start to look up but then Samara kills Noah as his seven days are up. In the killer video you see a mirror straight on and you can't see the reflection of the camera or cameraman in the reflection. This feeling is present in any decent horror movie. The film is not totally resolved, they discover what happened to Samara. It also makes you think what you would do in that situation. This is when you begin to worry for her.
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