Ring

Film - 1998

8,3

90.1K

Ring it's a movie with Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Hiroyuki Sanada, Yuko Takeuchi, Hitomi Satô Full cast. Directed by Hideo Nakata. Original title リング, runtime 96 minutes. Genres Horror, Thriller.

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Balkan Castevet

Nakata's Ringu maintains, even today, all its visual and expressive power; Sadako's curse does not lose its strength in a world, our contemporary one, dominated by social media and where a click is enough to watch on video but rather acquires greater power, her curse is infinite, in the film she needs a physical copy of a box to expand, today this curse would be even more devastating. The film begins with images of the dark sea, "in the brackish water the spirits celebrate", then from the television image of the baseball game we move on to frame the two girls and in fact Sadako's curse is already anticipated here as we move from the television image to the real world just as Sadako acts. The staging, the photography, creates dark and disturbing atmospheres, the interiors of the houses have a musty yellow color with omnipresent touches of black in the scenography also through the objects present on the scene which always give a sinister sensation to the story. There is no shortage of bluish hints that recall water, therefore the well, it is no coincidence that the first girl victim of the film wears a shirt aqua green or in any case in "aquatic" shades. Ringu is also a film of reflected images, the characters involved in the story will see their image reflected in the turned off TV; from this point of view, Yoichi, son of Reiko and Ryuji, now a former couple as they are divorced, is framed from behind as he stares at the turned off TV and, turning around, we notice his reflection which already indicates his connection with the spiritual world. The sequence of the stairs during the funeral with Yoichi still the protagonist, she is excellent, the boy standing at the foot of the stairs creates atmosphere, his progress, the shot from above, his being always subject to the environment, never master of it, creates anxiety and the I arrive in the room of the girl who died at the beginning of the film, Read all

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A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.