Before you die you see the ring

Rating: 7/10 (19 January 2014)

The Ring is a remake of the Japanese film Ringu . It can be classified as horror and thriller, the second category is the best classification. The film was released in 2002 and was directed by Gore Verbinski, the director of Pirates of the Caribbean. Everything starts when the niece of Rachel Keller dies in a completely strange way. At the funeral, she meets some friends of her deceased niece and during a conversation she discovers the existence of a tape, a legendary tape that supposedly kills all who watches it. Rachel then starts a race in search for truth. Her son Aidan is a young psychic who immediately senses that something wrong and paranormal is in this story. Rachel finds a copy of the dreaded tape, and skeptically, she just watched. At the exact second that the tape ends, the phone rings and a voice tells her that she has seven days. Then comes Noah, Aidan's father. He is more skeptical than Rachel and gets to mock the former partner for believing in the history of a tape that kills. He ends up watching the tape too, and because some strange happenings, he changes his minds about the veracity of the urban legend. The problem begins when Aidan, suffering from insomnia - probably caused by something supernatural - decides to watch the tape . Rachel finds him sitting on the floor of the room just when the last image passes. Then Rachel and Noah begin a journey to save their son. It's a real race against time to find out as much as they can about the tape and its motive to kill people. After several bizarre events and some deaths at the end of the film, Rachel unravels some of the mystery and save herself from the curse, she also manages to save her son. Gore Verbinski used and abused from oriental techniques to cause fear in movies. Terror of The Ring is the one caused by bodily mutilation or constant appearances of monsters. Terror is totally psychological, leaning on the great atmosphere of suspense that the plot provides. The movie has subliminal passages (in the passage of a particular scene to another, it is possible to identify the appearance of an image by fractions of a second) and a surrealist aesthetic with influence. The images on the tape are complex, a total nonsense at first glance, all carefully fitted to unravel the mystery(which by the way is just completely unraveled in the second film) the viewer can understand the meaning of each. Moreover, the shadows of the actors were taken to make a greater impact in the mind of the viewer. The film was highly praised, one of the few remakes that did not disappoint. The only criticism made very soon after launch was towards the end, which was confusing for many. One needs to watch the film very carefully to understand (or else watch the second movie, there are almost all drawn) the whole story. On the issue of performance, David Dorfman gave a show. His way of interpreting a gifted and sensitive boy convinced and won. His interpretation was as good as Haley Joel Osment in AI Artificial Intelligence. Always serious and sentimental without many statements. Naomi Watts also played very well its role as sloppy and desperate mother. The plot has a few holes, for example, does not explain the relationship between the call and the curse. Also it uses much scares cliché, with a tense music in the background and moments of silence. But even so it's a great film for those who enjoy suspense and mysteries to unravel. The "villain" in the end, is not that villain so. Recommend watching calmly, paying attention to the smallest detail to understand the end.