Impressions....

Artist Interpretation, or Hollywood at its tracks...

The Ring is an excellent delve into a Horrific Mystery... fear and anxiety plague the main character, Rachael, as she finds out what madness she has come across... The scenes are discovery are excellent pieces of art... a red leafed tree, across the landscape of endless fields.. as the sun sets behind the tree, it appears as if on fire... the redness of the leaves burn through the sun, reddening its shadows...

as time grows deeper into the film, the trauma and disorientation felt by Rachael is shown through the degration of colors... once a vibrant woman of color.. now the film shows her in an unsaturated state along with the rest of the scene... as the darkness becomes her, the film becomes dirtier.. and the mystery develops onward...

but lets face the reality of the movie... dispite all the beautifully shown imagery, and wonderful plotline of events... this movie is a remake... a remake of the original japanese movie directed by Hideo Nakata, which was a film interpretation from a line of novels writen by Keiji Suzuki...

the first reaction to this movie is of originality.. but Hollywood fuckin' ripped off the original artist of all his visions as made it their own... as quoted by one of the head producers of Dreamworks, "We were frightened and mesmerized by it, and immediately decided we were going to remake this movie"...

what audacity do we have as americans to think once we find some obsecure piece of art that we must make it own just because we saw it first... thats the way almost all of us think... i must own it.. it must be mine... such selfish uncreative feelings...

and besides that, the japanese film spun its own amount of sequels and prequels and side stories... the japanese cashed in on the product as well.... is there nothing original in this world, that doesn't end with the big money ?... it never stops...

and besides all this uncreativity... the new version of The Ring rarely has any good acting... the lead role does a fine job, but all the other characters are below par... the whole first 1/2 hour of the film is straight out of any late 90s horror film... script writings and scenes are taken almost directly from Scream.. the whole phone ringing, and false alarms.. how predictable can you get ??...

i was going to say this movie was qutie amazing, but after finding how far the roots admittingly go, there's not an original idea in this movie at all... after watching the real 'The Ring' which now i should see to understand this movie more, i will now just how stupid this is...

- Dyre - 10.28.02