The Ring? Questions? (warning spoiler!)

[jfulcer]

Ok, so if the girl comes to get the victims from outta the TV, how did she get the ones that were in the car? I can understand the first other two as they were near a TV for her to crawl out of, how did she get the ones in the car?

And what's with that ending? How does copying the tape STOP her? I don't get it. I woulda thought that since she found the body, it should all be stopped. I know she said she'll never stop, but copying the tape stops her? huh?

 

[Jeff in BigD]

Dude, I totally didn't think about the car part, good point.

I thought the ending was pretty weak (especially disappointing since the rest of the movie was so good), but I'm sure the production company wanted an out in case they want to make sequels, regardless of the fact that it's not the type of movie that needs them.

 

[zakatak]

OK... I spent way too much time (30 minutes) of my life on the Yahoo movie message boards about this movie... I can answer your questions and then pose one of my own.

First, the car victims. She supposedly could travel through tv waves so she probably came out of the radio waves and either made the car malfunction in some way or scared the begesus out of them as she crawled out of their radio (lol).

Second, she wants more and more people to hear and understand what happened to her so she wants the people who view the tape to make a copy. "Hunka hunka man" didn't make a copy so he bit the big one in the end. (so sad). It may also be why the owner of the shelter mountain cabins is still alive and why the video was there???? Who knows?

Here is my question. The family lived on the island which was pretty far from the victims (woman had to travel two days). WHY oh WHY was the well beneath cabin 12 at Shelter Mtn.? Now, in the movie they show the well, girl and mother looking at horses before the mother kills her and dumps her in the well. That is showing that the well was on their property, right? Or did they have two farms? Either way, then the well shows up at Shelter Mtn. This wasn't explained at all in the movie and bothers me (to date lol).

Anyways. Go search on Yahoo movies for the message board. There are alot of goof offs, but some decent ideas.

Karen

 

[sammi]

Boy this is one movie that I just couldn't understand at all!

My DH and I saw it a few weeks ago and after it was over we kinda just stood and stared at each other as if to say "is that it??" LOL

My DS (22) and his DGF and friends saw it Friday night and loved it! I think it might have something to do with a "generation gap"??? LOL

 

[tink29]

jfulcer, maybe the car had a TV and VCR in it??? I know our van does!

Did anyone notice when you got to see "her" face, that she looked JUST LIKE the girl from Exorcist?!?!!!!!!!! I think that may be where they are leading too, if making a sequel.

I'm also a bit puzzeled about the Cabins in the mountain. Was this land the family owned too?? I HATE it when a movie doesn't explain things out. My mom and I were a bit disappointed in the ending!

 

[Jeff in BigD]

I noticed that she looked like the little excorcist chick too. And I guess her creepy eye is the "ring" they see before they die.

The thing was I wanted it explained when it was over. It didn't even have to be a scientific explination & could have even been a "she had magical powers, but only kinda" cop-out. I don't even have a problem with leaving an ending where the viewer has to decide the ending for themselves, but you have to at least give them something to work with.

 

[nancy679]

I just saw this movie this afternoon, I dont recall a car accident---who was in the car? I have a lot of questions too, I'm gonna check out the Yahoo site.

 

[GEM]

I didn't get it either. I just didn't understand what was going on. I never figured it out. I sort of enjoyed it, but I had way more questions than answers when it was over.

I thought the "ring" was the circle of light you could see around the cap of the well when you were inside the well looking up. I figured that out at the end when the chick was down in the well and somebody slid the cap over the opening.

But I never figured out HOW or WHY she was causing all this stuff and what on earth the video tapes had to do with any of it? And the horses????

 

[jfulcer]

Originally posted by GEM
But I never figured out HOW or WHY she was causing all this stuff and what on earth the video tapes had to do with any of it? And the horses????

The girl, while she was alive, must have had some sort of 'aura' to her. That's why the horses killed themselves, they could sense something was wrong with her. That's why they kept killing themselves (and why the horse on the ferry killed itself - the blonde chick was 'touched').

Why was she doing it? She said so, she can't help hurting people and she'll NEVER stop. It wasn't really even about being found, that's a red herring. It's about her 'aura' being propogated via that tape and it's copies. She must have made the tape from the 'beyond'. Remember they said they tried to record a football game and got this instead? She must have 'sent' it - all the things in the video were things she rememdered from her life of h*ll with her parents. I think it was really her dad that wanted her dead...

 

[Jeff in BigD]

Originally posted by nancy679
I just saw this movie this afternoon, I dont recall a car accident---who was in the car? I have a lot of questions too, I'm gonna check out the Yahoo site.

At the beginning, the girl mentioned that she along with her BF & another couple watched the tape. The car accident wasn't shown, but it did show the paper reporting the accident, showing that the niece, her BF & the couple all died at 10PM. It was the other couple that was in the car.

 

[Jeff in BigD]

Originally posted by GEM
I thought the "ring" was the circle of light you could see around the cap of the well when you were inside the well looking up. I figured that out at the end when the chick was down in the well and somebody slid the cap over the opening.

Yeah, initially that's what you're supposed to think, but when you see what happens to her ex, you realize that the ring is her freaky dead eye right before you die.

 

[disnee15]

Also the Husband left a ring on the newspaper with his coffee cup, if you could catch that. If you wernt like my wuss friends and had thier hands over their eyes the ENTIRE movie. Ya so the car accident got me too... That little boy remeinded me of Hally Joe Osment in "The Sixth Sense" except not as girly.. hehe...

 

[Tinkbell]

I so hated this movie. I didn't even find it scary until that last scene when she climbs out of the tv. My boyfriend and I were trying to figure out where this tape came from. We gave up and just agreed that she had some supernatuaral powers. We did figure out that copying the tape meant that the person was helping her by spreading the message.

We also thought that the girl's dad knew that copying the tape saves you because he asked the blonde chick if she made a copy. What does it mean? Who knows.

 

[kinlaw6450]

Remember though when the doctor was talking to her. They had images that she had "burned" to film?? Same scene when she said she couldn't help killing and wouldn't stop. I figured she had this "power" and thats how the images from her mind got on the tape.

I didn't even grasp the car accident thing (duh!)

 

[GEM]

Originally posted by jfulcer
The girl, while she was alive, must have had some sort of 'aura' to her. That's why the horses killed themselves, they could sense something was wrong with her. That's why they kept killing themselves (and why the horse on the ferry killed itself - the blonde chick was 'touched').

Why was she doing it? She said so, she can't help hurting people and she'll NEVER stop. It wasn't really even about being found, that's a red herring. It's about her 'aura' being propogated via that tape and it's copies. She must have made the tape from the 'beyond'. Remember they said they tried to record a football game and got this instead? She must have 'sent' it - all the things in the video were things she rememdered from her life of h*ll with her parents. I think it was really her dad that wanted her dead...

Yeah, I got that. But I wanted to know why she had this aura and why she couldn't stop hurting people etc. What was wrong with her in the first place? I guess I wanted more information about her BEFORE she was killed.

And I totally missed the eye at the end, I guess. I had sort of stopped paying attention by then.

The location of the well didn't make sense to me either.

I thought the film was interesting visually, but that's about it.

 

[WDWHound]

Originally posted by GEM
Yeah, I got that. But I wanted to know why she had this aura and why she couldn't stop hurting people etc. What was wrong with her in the first place? I guess I wanted more information about her BEFORE she was killed.

And I totally missed the eye at the end, I guess. I had sort of stopped paying attention by then.

The location of the well didn't make sense to me either.

I thought the film was interesting visually, but that's about it.

The aura was just something the girl had. It appears she was born evil and apparently came equiped with an evil aura as standard equipment. I got the sense her parents messed with something really evil in order to get pregnant. Remember that her father said that his wife was never intended to have a child. Also, the doctor said that the couple had left for a while, and when they came back they had the kid and were claiming to have adopted her.

I never concluded that the girl had to come out of the TV to kill. We only heard of 2 cases in which she did so (the first and the last deaths of the movie). It is not mentioned in any of the other deaths. Remember, she appear to people in their dreams as well, so she seemed to be pretty versitile as to how she could manifest herself.

The whole scene on the fairyboat was a bit over the top. If the nice horsey begins freaking out when you appraoch. it might be a good clue that you should back away. But no, our heroine persists in trying to make friends with Flicka, until she learns first hand that horses dont water ski very well. Still, this was the only scene I didn't like in the movie.

Regarding the well, I got the impression the parents took her away to murder her. I think the idea was to kill get her as far away from possible, just to be safe. On a related note, did anyone notice that the resort was shut down when they returned to it? It had been open just 7 days before.

I loved the ending of this movie, with the kid asking what will happen to the person he gives the video to. I thought that was a nice touch. The images on that video were so haunting (no pun intended). They really stuck with me.

 

[jfulcer]

Originally posted by Jeff in BigD
I noticed that she looked like the little excorcist chick too. And I guess her creepy eye is the "ring" they see before they die.

No, I'm not sure that's really the 'ring'. The 'ring' is the cover on the well going over the top to seal her in after her mom pushed her in. I remember one scene where they showed her 'view' from the bottom of the well as it was being closed. Imagine, that was the LAST thing she saw, that ring just out of reach before she died.

<b>The whole scene on the fairyboat was a bit over the top. If the nice horsey begins freaking out when you appraoch. it might be a good clue that you should back away. But no, our heroine persists in trying to make friends with Flicka, until she learns first hand that horses dont water ski very well. Still, this was the only scene I didn't like in the movie.</b>

We thought that too. We're sitting there saying "Well DUH get away from the horse!".

<b>On a related note, did anyone notice that the resort was shut down when they returned to it? It had been open just 7 days before.</b>

I saw that too, but didn't really understand the significance of it. Maybe the owner knew she was fishing around for the tape and didn't want to stick around any longer. I thought it was pretty obvious HE knew about the tape. Or maybe it was just an explanation as to why the cabin was unoccupied.

<b>We also thought that the girl's dad knew that copying the tape saves you because he asked the blonde chick if she made a copy. What does it mean? Who knows.</b>

Hmmmmmmmm maybe he did know.

<b>Remember though when the doctor was talking to her. They had images that she had "burned" to film?? Same scene when she said she couldn't help killing and wouldn't stop. I figured she had this "power" and thats how the images from her mind got on the tape.</b>

Oh yeah! She said she just 'thought them' and they happened. So that's how her power to manipulate images started. She started with x-rays and then switched to magnetic media. Sounds plausible .

 

[Jeff in BigD]

Originally posted by jfulcer
No, I'm not sure that's really the 'ring'. The 'ring' is the cover on the well going over the top to seal her in after her mom pushed her in. I remember one scene where they showed her 'view' from the bottom of the well as it was being closed. Imagine, that was the LAST thing she saw, that ring just out of reach before she died.

Yes, but she said "when you die, you see the ring". The blonde was the only one that was down in the well & saw the well being covered up. So in order for the ones to have seen the well-ring, they would've had to seen it through some evil projection or hallucination.

 

[perdidobay]

I enjoyed the movie, not the best I've ever seen but not the worst either. I was still trying to piece things together when I left the theatre. Wasn't the actress that played the little girl the same one who was the voice of Lilo in Lilo and Stitch?

 

[jfulcer]

Originally posted by Jeff in BigD
Yes, but she said "when you die, you see the ring". The blonde was the only one that was down in the well & saw the well being covered up. So in order for the ones to have seen the well-ring, they would've had to seen it through some evil projection or hallucination.

I thought I remember seeing a scene, prolly about the time they were showing the mom shoving the kid into the well, where the cover was pushed over and there was a clear view of the sky. The girl that was in the cabin and fell in wouldn't have a sky view and I thought I remembered it. Then again, I don't remember seeing a cover next to the well when she got pushed in either, so maybe I'm on drugs or sumthin.

Maybe it was that 'evil projection' that caused their faces to distort so much.