Sadako-a merciless mockery of the media industry

Rickey 2022-01-01 08:01:50

I didn't like to watch horror movies because I thought they were too shallow. Most of them show that a certain soul was bullied in a previous life, so revenge frantically. Very scary and ignorant. But from "The Ring of Midnight", I seem to see a kind of irony, a kind of ridicule.

After watching the deadly video, the female reporter Asakawa showed it to the former husband the next day. Ryuji seemed to be the kind of Japanese man who was not afraid of death, and he dismissed all supernatural events. But learning that their son Yang Yi had also watched the video, they decided to lift the curse together. After going through all kinds of dangers (please allow me to use such a vulgar phrase to summarize the horror scene), the curse seems to have really been lifted, and Asakawa is also spared. (If it is an American blockbuster, they should remarry) But the movie did not end there. The next day, Asakawa learned that Ryuji had passed away. She doesn't care too much about her ex-husband (there are still such women), but she is very worried about the safety of her son. She thought about it repeatedly and finally found that she had copied the video tape and showed it to others (Long Si), but Rong Si had not done any copying of the video tape. It turns out that copying the videotape and showing it to others is the key to unlocking the curse. Their previous efforts were completely useless. Just keep copying, endlessly, and there will be no more bizarre deaths.

I don't know what the original intention of the director is. But I think this seems to explain a mathematical proposition-infinity. The population can be regarded as infinite. Watching the video once by the second person can save the life of the first person, and the third person can save the second person...This is endless (endless). Thanks to the number of people on earth!

Judging from the logic of the movie itself, it seems to be conveying such a black humorous fact that the media is a tool for spreading curses. The various media that we cannot live without day in and day out, do they come from a fatal curse? People on the earth sometimes get tired of it, but they can't leave it. Since the way to lift the curse is to let the curse be entangled, then it is difficult for us to distinguish the merits and demerits of the media, which is good or bad. (The more convincing point is that Sadako's mother officially committed suicide because she could not withstand the pressure of the press; and when the Internet bubble was about to burst in 1998, the birth of this movie had its epochal significance)



Ha ha. A horror film that once scared people to death, I dismembered it so that there is no sense of mystery.

But only in this way can I truly eliminate my fear.

Turn off the lights.

sleep.

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Ringu quotes

  • Reiko Asakawa: Take my photo...

    [hands Ryuji a Polaroid camera]

    Ryuji Takayama: Look at me.

    Reiko Asakawa: Hurry up!

    [Ryuji takes the picture and looks at it. The picture of Reiko's face is blurred]

  • Reiko Asakawa: Four people died from watching this videotape!

    Ryuji Takayama: [laughing] Then go to the shrine and get exorcized!

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