EJsGirl if you are afraid of the dark at your own house, I highly recommend you leave The Exorcist firmly encased in the packaging! <shudder>
djf750 you make some good points, but I think assuming that someone would necessarily be at her sister’s house helping her is a mistake. I mean, I would and you obviously would, but not everybody’s like that. Maybe she felt she was helping by doing the investigation. I don’t know. But otherwise, I agree with you, about the phone call at the boyfriend’s. There’s no safety in NOT answering the phone, is there? Having him answer it, after watching the tape, would prove what she’d been telling him was true.
(I think. It’s been a few months since I’ve seen it, in the theater.)
djf750, I think you’re missing the poijnt that these are all bits to help show how self absorbed in her carreer and herself she is. Not being with her sister, acting as though nothing happened, picking her kid up from school an hour late and continuing to talk on the phone when she shows up…it was her character. Honestly, her behavior in those scenes is not unrealistic at all. There are a LOT of people out there who are so absorbed in work, that they put everything on the back burner. I mean, this woman really shows no signs of care for her own son for the first half of the film, what makes you think she’d put her life on hold to comfort her sister?
As for not letting him answer the phone, I don’t really recall her stopping him from doing so, I just remember them not answering it, and her deleting the answering machine’s message. I don’t thin k it would really have mattered to help him believe because [/SPOILER]according to the Japanese version, you only received a phone call if you were in the cabin/area where there well was located. The ex never got a phone call, and niether did the son. They made a note of pointing that out in the Japanese version; if she had played the machine, I’m sure it would have been someone from work or a telemarketer or something.[/spoiler]
As for Noah making a bad father…I believe that. The guy looked like he was in his mid twenties, and judging from the way he lived, he was in no position to raise a child, or be a father. Some people just aren’t cut out to be parents, and Noah was a prime example.
Now, the bit with the horse, i agree with. If it were me in that instance, the second the horse started acting out, I would have run to the other side of the boat.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if there’s a difference between the American release of Ringu on DVD and the original Japanese version? I’d hate to watch it and find it’s been re-edited for some stupid reason.
Well, the IMDB listing for Ringu doesn’t list any alternate runtimes on the first page, nor is there a different American version listed in the alternate versions page, so I’d have to assume there’s no difference.