Although it was a divergence from the book, did anyone else get the impression that Sadako being reborn as Mai was Sadako's choice and possibly at Ryuji's request, or maybe as a 'gift' to him?
Or is this just a bad attempt at rationalising the studio's decision to give Miki Nakatani more screen time...
oo! nice idea.
i think i've said before but i actually liked a couple of the differences in the film from book. it's been a while since i watched this but the way mai gets impregnated by the curse is kinda interesting in the film. in the book it's just her own investigations and she doesn't get too involved in the rest of the story.
the hills are alive with the sound of screaming!
I agree with the screen time bit! lol!
But I always thought that Sadako just always took the form of the woman she was born from. So, if she had caught Reiko on ovulation time, she'd have come out looking like Reiko, if she had caught Tomoyo or that Yoko girl, ditto. It just happened to be Mai who got caught at ovulation time first and Sadako came out looking like Mai. OH MY GOD! Imagine every woman in the world looking different but mulitple Sadako's being born of them?
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I don't think so. Ryuji can't have been that fond of Mai if he sold her out to Sadako? I always thought Ryuji liked Reiko more then Mai anyway. Still, I think its clever that Sadako seems to come out looking like the woman she's born of. In the book she doesn't, but if there are tones of Sadakos walking down the street it would be rather strange and people might catch on quicker to the Sadako curse. At least in the movie, if there are Sadako walking down the street looking like and pretending to be the woman who they came out of, they might get away with it for years before people start to catch on.
shareIf the film had been straight supernatural horror, I would accept that Sadako could be born looking like Mai -- on the grounds that it's a creepy, effective idea, whatever the logic.
But when the film goes to such lengths to explain the "cursed" videotape as containing Sadako's DNA information -- which is "opticlally" transferred to those who watch the tape, who then become a host that spread the DNA like a virus -- well, after all that lengthy exposition, the film should damn well stay true to its own scientific rationalization: IF IT'S SADAKO'S DNA, THEN SHE SHOULD LOOK LIKE SADAKO, NOT LIKE HER SURROGATE MOTHER.
I agree that that would have made more sense, however Sadako wasn't reborn entirely as her previous self in the book. The new Sadako had both a womb and testicles. If something as fundamental as that could change, then appearence could as well, I suppose.
I'm not sure that she would take the form of whoever she's born as, because then they wouldn't all be genetically identical, which would throw off a lot of the story.
I'd probably find it easier to dislike the idea of Sadako looking like Mai if
a) I didn't think that Miki Nakatani had done such a good job (equal to her peformance in Chaos, imo)
b) I didn't dislike the actress playing Sadako, she just didn't seem right to me
If they are supposed to be giving birth to a person it should take longer than a week (and certainly longer than overnight - which is how long the pregnancy seems to take in the movie).
If you can have an overnight pregnancy, then frankly all logic has already gone out of the window. Heck, how do you contract smallpox by reading a journal???