The Ring revolves around a woman named Rachel Keller who's investigating the death of 4 teenager's, once in which was her niece. She learns that all the teenager's died 7 days after watching a movie that's said to kill you after 7 days. During the investigation, Rachel watches the video and is given a week to live, and it becomes a race against time to find out how to stop the curse. It becomes even worse when her son watches the film and stopping the curse becomes even more important in order to save her life and her son's. Rachel's life soon becomes entwined with Samara Morgan's, the young girl killing all the people after seven days and hopefully with this information a way to end the curse. The first layer of this movie is that how it's impossible that a tape can kill of people after watching it. But then in the second layer it becomes believable once you become the victim and are given only seven day's to live before Samara comes for you. The way this movie shows darkness/evil is through the character's, the plot line and objects in the movie. In the first way, the antagonist, Samara, is killing off people after 7 days without any remorse to what she is doing. Samara was an evil child who was killed by her own adoptive movie by drowning in the well. Samara put her message on a tape which was how the curse began. The plot itself shows darkness in how people die out of revenge and by how all of this began simply began from an evil child and how she became more powerful when killed. Some of the objects in the move that represent darkness are the TV, the well, the phone and the tape. The TV because Samara uses that as a portal to getting to her victim's and killing them after seven days. The well because Samara died in the well and as a result turned her into the menacing character she is now. But the two most dramatic objects were the tape and phone because the phone showed just how real the tape was after watching it. After watching the tape to the end Samara would call you on the phone and tell you that you've got seven day's to live. A character can represent darkness by but has happened to them in the past and how they treat character's in the present. Samara is an example of this. A connection I can make to this movie is by Text to text to another movie, The Grudge. What these two movies share in common is that their main antagonist's were both killed and became powerful after death. Using their power's they turned on the living world and started to kill off whoever got in their way.
EQ: How does the study of fiction and nonfiction texts help individuals construct their understanding of reality?
There is a fine line between what is true and what is made up. What is shown in the movie is that at first nobody really believes that a tape can 'kill you'. Once the tape is watched it's first like, this is nothing but a hoax. But when the phone rings after the tape is finished, and a voice says 'seven days', in the back of your head you see it as nothing but a coincidence, but you're also thinking about how true this may be. Rachel experiences this, and then goes about trying to figure out if what she thinks is happening, really is happening and isn't fake. Once she learns that this tape is genuine, that there's history behind what has happened, and how this is all Samara's doing, Rachel accepts and understands her reality.
