Sadako duality


I just finished watching Ringu 0, having finally been able to see it with the North American release of the Ringu Anthology. I was a little confused by the entire aspect of the "two Sadako's", a good one and an evil one. What I gathered from the film is that when she was born she was just a single person, but then eventually split into two, one being the "good" version, while another the "bad"?

So is the scene near the end of Ringu 0 where Sadako is standing near the cliff meant to show the reconstituting of the two Sadako's into one body? Why didn't Sadako's father just kill the evil version rather then keeping her locked up and using drugs to stunt her growth? And what exactly did he achieve by preventing her from growing exactly in the first place? I can only assume this is better explained in the novels, hopefully someone out there can explain this a little better to me.

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The prevention of growth was to stunt her psychic powers. I believe the duality of Sadako is all psychological, sort of like the movie American Psycho. What we see manifested as two people is not reality.

Anything else has never made any sense to me.

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The drugs were to stunt the growth of her psyhic powers (even with this Little Sadako was able to kill Aiko.. imagine if she had been allowed to mature).

I think the scene is meant to show the two Sadakos joining, but with Bad Sadako winning over.

It isn't explained in the novels, however, because this movie was (I haven't read the story but I'm pretty sure most of it was original to the movie) based on a short story from a collection of short Ring stories by Koji Suzuki. This book isn't out in English yet, and I'm not sure if it ever will be...

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It is now. You can find Ring and Spiral at your local bookshop and Loop and The Birthday Anthology are available through amazon.

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Actually in the movie they say that her father believed that these psychic powers could be manifested into something solid, like the energy of a person's spirit becoming something tangible...like another person. Sadako was split into 2 by her father who was doing experiments with that very subject and kept the "evil" version of her at home, stunted her physical development by constantly injecting her with the drugs, halting her growth so her power wouldn't diminish as she grew.

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