The Ring: A Question of Imagery

[mictlan]

Originally posted by Vodstok

Watch carefully when Rachel is watching the tape of her at the hospital. When the doctor tells her that she doesnt want to hurt anybody and samara says "but I do, and I'm sorry. it wont stop."

The girl playing her does a great job. She doesnt so much say "But I hurt people, and i am sorry, i wish i didnt, but it wont stop"

Something about it strikes me as she was saying "But i do want to hurt people, and I'm sorry. it wont stop"

She delivers it like she means it, saying sorry sarcasticly.

Also, apparently there was a line that was cut out right after she says "But he doesnt know.."

The doctor says "Know what?"
And Samara says "Everyone will suffer."

From what I remember they show her delivering those lines in two completely different ways. When the audience is supposed to think that Samara is abused or neglected she says "But I do want to hurt people, and I'm sorry. it wont stop" like she is apologizing.

After Aidan goes through the "you weren't supposed to help her" bit we are supposed to understand that her parents didn't neglect her, they were just terrified of her. I guess when you find yourself with a demon child you either put them in the barn or bop them in the head and throw them down the well.

Then Rachel remembers Samara saying "But I do want to hurt people" very maliciously, not apologetically.

[mictlan]

Originally posted by otis
it is crazy how they are different, ringu is more um.... i think mythical or religous

The really messed up thing is how different the book is from either film. The book is more of a post-modern sci-fi book than a horror story.




SPOILER

The book reveals that the video curse is actually a mutated version of smallpox, and that Sadako (the Japanese Samara) is revealed in the book as a hermaphrodite. I was not interested in either plot twist and prefer both films as straight-up ghost stories.