Review of The Ring (2002) by Joseph M — 26 Dec 2018

I don't want to see this movie ever again. This film is so scary, so frightening, so outstandingly horrific, that you'll only want to see it 3 times at most before letting it slip away into nostalgia and vague memories.

So many good movies like "The Ring" are like that. Ghost stories are often better for memory than precise attention and "The Ring" won't be a barrier instead of a work of art, especially if we only remember it a little.

Why has this movie been hated by the public at large? What makes people tick on this one? It's quite simple: there's a little girl. She's in some pictures for the movie and I won't spoil you with too much detail.

A little girl becomes a ghost who haunts people through a modern curse; we look at the girl and become fascinated by her until we realize we're also horrified, and as we're coming to grips with the little girl, we want to love her; however, by loving her, we also deny the evil which persists in her, and people die because of her, so our sympathy and anxiety over her story just damage our imagination needed for survival and defense in our own lives as bad guys are talked about in the news with the world we live in.

That's the horror. A little girl goes beyond death and enters her dimensions within spiritual means of deception and murder. She's totally playing with her victims and she smiles to pretend at her goodness.

We don't want to hate a little girl and a completely evil ghost like her makes us squeamish and unreliable to her and ourselves. Only see this movie again if you've totally forgotten about it.

Vague memories, remote possibilities, near chances, will prove or disprove one's trust for this girl. A little girl like her is like Miss Muffet only that she'd frighten the spider away rather than herself.

Ever since I saw this movie years ago I've gotten nervous from time to time when I see objects that look like her (broom, office chair, flashing beams of light, etc.). Normally I don't hate children, but in this case, I believe it's completely healthy, and right, to trust this little girl less and less as she rises from the dead only to prove the notion of time when given its dark flavor of revenge.

She has revenge against people who have nothing to do with her. How evil is that? All because of the strange family she lived in during her mortal existence on Earth she has hurt and destroyed innocent victims.

We can't have sympathy for her! Evil speaks during her life and continues speaking after she dies and she just simply can't really pass "away". And I do pity her on different aspects- hair, dress, shoes, gentle voice.

.. the "evil" here is misleading me into appreciation when she deserves none of it and needs a permanent shutdown.