Maybe a stupid question, but I've never understood that.
shareIt saves you because Samara's goal is to spread evil & damnation....and you've just helped her do it by making a copy & showing it to someone else.
You're keeping the evil cycle spreading.
Samara's father alludes to this when he accuses Rachel of 'spreading evil stories like sickness'.
That is what Samara is doing: Spreading evil & death.
If you help her, you are spared yet damned. If you don't, you die.
I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus.
Didn't he discover America?
Penfold, shush.
when you make a copy and show it to someone else, it's like transferring your virus. but the person who catches it should show it to others as well.
shareI get that making a copy helps to spread the curse, and could help you to get it seen in the 7 days. But I can't recall anything (please correct me if I'm mistaken) that clearly indicates that someone who spreads the curse via their copy - but does NOT copy the tape - would die.
Another point is some victims are clearly dying without knowing that spreading the curse would save them, so Samara is arguably slipping up by not making sure that they know this!
John, so how did rachel save herself , I mean how did she exactly save herself ?
shareThe film is short of unclear about that, so is the Japanese version, but the novel is quite explicit. It's always struck me as odd that the films would cut that bit, since if Sadako/Samara wants the viewer to copy the tape and pass it on why wouldn't she tell them?
In the book the tape starts out with a message commanding the viewer to watch until the end and ends with a message telling the viewer how to save themselves - it's literally a virus that wants to reproduce, just showing it to someone else isn't exactly reproduction.
As an aside, in the books the kids erase the ending as a joke (so the message is just "If you do not want to die, you must -" and then it cuts to commercial). Eventually it turns out that doing that altered the viruses DNA so that each copy still spreads the virus but copying it/showing it to someone else no longer saves you, in a twist it turns out that the reporter protagonist lived because he made a record of his investigation - his report became a new outlet for the virus.