Ringu 0: Bâsudei (2000)

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   yukononun

   I can't quite articulate why I didn't like this movie, as it was well done. Most of the actors were great, especially Yukie Nakama as Sadako. The story was pretty tight, and coherent for the most part.
   Perhaps I didn't like it because of the whole

   double Sadako thing, which I'm admittedly still confused about

   . Maybe it was because

   [the troupe brutally beat Sadako to death without any hesitation. I understand that they were scared and plagued by nightmares, but it already seemed like they were considering murder within the first 45 minutes. Considering that Etsuko immediately agreed to help Akiko murder Sadako (despite Sadako still being pretty normal at this point) was strange. Can nightmares really drive someone to kill? I understand that one woman had already died, but that was it. It wasn't even confirmed that it was Sadako. Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but I really don't get it]

   , and that

   [the "nice" Sadako didn't do anything wrong, yet received three horrific deaths. THREE. I understood that the one at the end was coming, it was Sadako after all, but did she really need to be bludgeoned by the troupe and then her father? Wasn't that long, agonizing death in the well enough?]

   . Or maybe it's because I didn't feel that the combination of romance/drama and horror balanced well together. I don't know.
   
   What I do know is that scene with

   Akiko and Etsuko hiding from Sadako

   was bloody marvelous. Creepy, yet moving. If the whole movie was similar to that, then I would've loved it.
   
   If you're not interested in watching the movie, especially after reading what I wrote, then at least watch from when

   Sadako revives for the first time

   until after the scene with

   Akiko and Etsuko

   . It really was great. 6 years 10 months ago

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