![]() ![]() Noah's skeptical, but asks Rachel for a copy of the video to look deeper into it. While investigating, Rachel watches the videotape herself, a disturbing series of images and brief clips, and is notably distraught when she answers the phone after watching the video and hears, "you will die in seven days." She asks her video analyst ex-boyfriend Noah ( Martin Henderson), the father of her son Aidan ( David Dorfman), for his opinion on the video. A mysterious videotape kills anyone who watches it after seven days, including journalist Rachel Keller's ( Naomi Watts) niece. What Is 'The Ring' About?įor those that have not seen the film, here's a brief synopsis. It's a haunting, psychological nightmare, a race against a personal doomsday clock, and a thought-provoking look at media, relationships, and assumptions. The Ring is not scary, or at least not to yours truly, but that does not mean it doesn't deserve its status as a horror classic. By this point, the video would likely be so divorced from its original format as to be essentially powerless, but not to worry the comments section of each video, in which strangers argue over whether the desaturation is necessary for the intended aesthetic, will end up being deadly in its own right.Let's start with this. Once the internet has been switched back on - let’s be honest, if nothing else, the president would want Twitter back as quickly as possible - the inevitable fallout would remain: lengthy YouTube videos taking apart the original Ring video at length from the point of view of the mistakes made in its original construction. The YouTube Critique Of The Editing And Color Grading Choices There would be protests to object to this decision, but without the internet, it turns out that online organizing gets far more difficult. Secondly, President Trump would step in and sign an executive order to switch off the entire internet while he works out what the hell is going on. Firstly, cable news would get involved, running excerpts of the video before cutting to concerned, and increasingly unwell, talking heads who haven’t quite figured out what repeated exposure can do to them. Once the clip has gone from the internet to television, it would only be a matter of time before two things would happen. Let’s see if a mention on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver can manage that. ![]() Depending on the guest-host of the week and the possibility of involvement by Kate McKinnon, could this restore some of the spooky juju to the clip? Depending on the quality, it could be just the thing that introduces the concept to a whole new audience, but perhaps SNL isn’t the venue to fully return the thing to its most powerful. Of course, the Ring video won’t really be known to have gone viral until Saturday Night Live gets involved and bases a sketch around it. Can a supernatural video still maintain its inexplicable ability to kill when faced with the collective snark of the internet’s film geeks? Finally, we will have a chance to find out. Three days later, a whole new audience would discover the clip when it finally shows up on Facebook’s “Trending” feature, with a “popular article” explaining why it’s what all the kids are into except now they’re vomiting all over the place.įollowing the initial social media response, there would then be more measured follow-ups, including both Honest Trailers and How It Should Have Ended versions of the video, pointing out the cliches on the show and lack of narrative sense in the entire thing. Perhaps people wouldn’t die, but just get very sick, when viewing the edited versions - which would, of course, help with the inevitable Twitter backlash within hours. Would the video lose its power when edited? That would cease to be a question quickly, with multiple versions of the clip - subtly edited, for time and individual aesthetic - showing up on Instagram within hours of its debut online. ![]() As a reminder, here’s the video from 2002’s The Ring:
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