"The Ring"
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Submitted by lezlee on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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"The Ring"
Your eyes are transfixed to the television set, unmoving, watching the series of gruesome events that are flashing before your eyes. Staring. Trying to make sense of it all, but you can't. What happened to this little girl that maintains your attention on the screen?
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The telephone rings. Who could that be? It seems that the call was timed ever so perfectly as you sit still staring at the television set, confused. You walk over to the telephone and pick it up, cautiously with unsteady hands. "Hello?" Silence. All of a sudden, a reply. "Seven days."
This is the thrilling plot of "The Ring." When a person watches a specific videotape, they die a disturbing death precisely seven days later, no questions asked. A few people in the movie have already died with a face of terror, which cannot be described. A reporter gets on the case to uncover the mystery of the tape. She too watches the tape andÂ…RING! She also gets the creepy phone call. She knows that she has exactly seven days to figure out what had happened to the little girl and find a way to escape the same fate as the others that had previously watched the tape.
Drawing the viewer into the movie is definitely something that is a must. The director of "The Ring" handles the material proficiently, having the viewer be concerned about the woman, the man, and the boy. He does this by having some substantial character development for the three leads, while building the suspense. He sometimes resorts to cheap gimmicks though. An example of this is counting down the days remaining. The story playfully jolts the audience with false starts, which sets the viewers nerves on edge. This conveys to more subtle scares, as the woman goes into places we know she shouldn't go. She has an innocent quality about her, which draws the viewers to care for her. She also draws the viewers into her mounting sense of frustration, helplessness, and of course, fear.
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