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I bought myself the "JU-ON: The Grudge" DVD on Monday, cause there's an American version called "The Grudge" coming out soon, so wanted to see it in the original Japanese first. Beside, I heard it was scarier than "ring" so I was curious. :p
They say curiousity killed the cat... *miows pitifully* And it was a damn lot scarier than "ring!" It also had no plot - I think the director was just out to kill all his characters - but it was well made just for the scare factor. Predictable, but it still managed to keep me glued to the screen in the vague hope that one character would at least find a way to escape the curse... and in the end that was what made the movie: the thought of, "what can you do to stop this?"
I kept coming back to the analogy of a virus or disease that doesn't pick and choose its victims. And that was more disturbing than anything. We live in a world that is so connected through travel and technology that a virus can travel anywhere in the world in just a few hours, we saw it with SARS, and we'll see it with more diseases in the future. Like Koji Suzuki implies in "ring," how do you stop something once it is let loose? And in JU-ON, once the curse starts to affect the living, firstly through contact with a single haunted house, but then if a security guard can die simply from having contact with one person who's been in the house, where will it stop?
And the way Shimizo, the director, is going with these movies (the American version will be the fifth version all up), who knows where he's going to stop! ~_^
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They say curiousity killed the cat... *miows pitifully* And it was a damn lot scarier than "ring!" It also had no plot - I think the director was just out to kill all his characters - but it was well made just for the scare factor. Predictable, but it still managed to keep me glued to the screen in the vague hope that one character would at least find a way to escape the curse... and in the end that was what made the movie: the thought of, "what can you do to stop this?"
I kept coming back to the analogy of a virus or disease that doesn't pick and choose its victims. And that was more disturbing than anything. We live in a world that is so connected through travel and technology that a virus can travel anywhere in the world in just a few hours, we saw it with SARS, and we'll see it with more diseases in the future. Like Koji Suzuki implies in "ring," how do you stop something once it is let loose? And in JU-ON, once the curse starts to affect the living, firstly through contact with a single haunted house, but then if a security guard can die simply from having contact with one person who's been in the house, where will it stop?
And the way Shimizo, the director, is going with these movies (the American version will be the fifth version all up), who knows where he's going to stop! ~_^
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