Why not copy the video and burn it then?
See title!
shareYou have to show the copy to someone or Samara will pay you a visit.
sharePlus, the person who burns the videotape also has to make a sacrifice to be Samara's last ever victim since they still have 7 days left.
shareI don't understand at all why making a copy and showing it to someone saves you. Please explain in detail.
shareThe ring was designed to be like a virus.
A virus can't thrive without a living host, just as Samara's curse can't either. By copying the video tape and showing it to another, the curse is able to be passed onto the next person, and more people will be "infected" by it. The title "The Ring" literally refers to the life cycle of Samara's curse.
The Ring is based off a Japanese movie, Ringu, which is based off of a novel by the same title. Unfortunately, these facts didn't transfer well from the novel to the screen.
Granted, it's only in the novel and in the original movie where you had to make a copy and show it to someone in order to survive. The American producers felt this was too dark, and they changed it so only making a copy would suffice. But there are alternative scenes where the American characters did have to show it to someone to survive as well, and Rachel has a prisoner on death row watch the tape in order to save her son.
The American producers felt this was too dark, and they changed it so only making a copy would suffice.
The last line of the American version is the son's, "What about the person we show it to? What happens to them?" share
Good point. The American film was made sort of messy. There are 2 alternative endings to the American film. One is where Rachel rents a movie on the hot pics wall, and then swaps out the movie with her copy of Samara's tape, killing a random stranger to save Aiden's life. The other alternative has a couple scenes where earlier in the movie, Rachel is doing a story about a man on death row, and later drops off the tape for him to view because he's going to die anyway, so her son might as well be saved in the process.
shareWhy did Anna kill Samara?
shareAnna knew Samara was evil. It's explained when Rachel goes to the island to see Samara's father.
shareSo why did Anna tape herself or prepared that tape full of some images?
shareAnna didn't make the tape. Samara did using her supernatural powers. When the teenagers at the cabin wanted to record a football game, Samara used her powers to record her tape instead.
I hope this helps :)
Thank you!
shareMy last question: When Rachel opened the well ,she said :''It's all passed,honey.'' I cannot understand the releation between Rachel's finding and hugging Samara in the well and her spirit's being set free. I mean what happenned when she hugged her? If her spirit had been set free ,how and why did her spirit was set free just by Rachel's hugging her?
shareIt doesn't matter what happens with her body. Only Rachel thinks that she set Samara spirit free and thought that she is an innocent little girl who suffer a lot and it will break the curse because thats what Samara wanted. Actually, Samara didn't and didn't care her rotten dead body anymore and her vengeance full spirit is still her own as always was.
shareI would have just given it to someone on death row.
share