{"id":202,"date":"2002-11-03T00:36:23","date_gmt":"2002-11-03T03:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=202"},"modified":"2002-11-03T00:36:23","modified_gmt":"2002-11-03T03:36:23","slug":"the-ring-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"The Ring (2002)"},"content":{"rendered":"

W<\/span>e decided to catch a movie, and this night it was The Ring<\/a>. The movie apparantly a remake of a Japanese movie, Ringu<\/a>. And apparantly that movie also scared a lot of people.<\/p>\n

Before I end up in a rant about movies like these, remakes or not,
\nthere’s one kind of movie I can’t appreciate. You guessed it: I don’t
\nlike horror movies. The generic American horror movie literally dumps
\nthe viewer in a ‘pool of blood’ and ‘anger’. And in most of those
\nmovies, it’s always women who die a bloody dead. Somewhere’s in
\nthe late 80s, mid 90s, things apparantly changed, when directors
\nstarted to concentrate on different photographic effects to scare the
\nshit out of people. Call it the David Lynch or Twin Peaks
\nfactor. Watching the movie ‘The Ring’ convinced me that
\nhorror-movie directors have learned things from Twin Peaks.<\/p>\n

Great photography in The Ring, that’s for sure. The video (as played
\nin the movie) reminds of great silent and absurd (surrealistic) movies.
\nAnd although absurd, yes, the images in that video get to people, one
\nway or another. The ladder that leads to something (‘Heaven is a barn,
\nand hell is a well’), the mirror and the man watching out of the
\nwindow. It could have been a Lynch movie.<\/p>\n

There are flaws. Some clues seem to be missing (how and who?<\/em>).
\nThe effects (somewhere at the end) are neat, but not really impressing
\n(‘Let me guess, she steps out of the video’). And it is
\ntoo easy to swallow that some people don’t die ‘because of the
\nfact that they made a whatever of the movie’. And all those clues
\nto the number seven: we’ve seen that before too, didn’t we?<\/p>\n

But on the overall, a good (and surprising) movie. And better than
\n‘Signs’, for sure. Don’t watch the movie on your own. And count. Seven
\nit is, OK?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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