Who is willing to undertake the Journey to See Sadako

In order to know if Sadako can have a redemption arc, we must meet Sadako where she really is

​

We have to ask—who is Sadako, really? 

​

We must seek to understand her. Understand the human under the curse, the soul behind the suffering

​​​

- Bring up the: Who is she? Where is she at? What were/are her values? What does she believe in? What experiences shaped her? What did she look forward to? but in a deeper way that really dives into it and answers these tackles these questions instead of merely raising them.

​​

The Simple Things We Don't Know

​

​​​​

Let's analyze the roots of her curse. What's going on here? ​

​​

Watch the Cursed Tape Here (Youtube search results)

​

​

​

​

​

​

- So, how would we save Sadako? Can we reach her? 

​

- We have to map things out. 

​

- Our protagonists will have to map things out. 

- Investigate

​​

- Question: I wonder how this would work, because its not like they can just go back ...would they go by rumors? How would they receive this information? Perhaps its through a dream. Perhaps someone around them is affected by the curse. Perhaps its through visions. Or even emotional sense. Empathy. 

​

Another question: how do they break through and persevere in spite of the sense that Sadako's too far gone? That she would resist all redemption. 

​​

- Perhaps this comes from Mai, the protagonist of Ringu 2? Possibly, perhaps the scene after? Hmmm... Ah, I see, it appears I need to go more abstract...But what would this mean for the 2019 Sadako version? 

​

- Ah...I notice the previous movies seem to tend to create arcs for characters, but then throw them away from the scare of the next movie and a "Scary ghost girl" movie. If we tie in the previous movies and continue those threads r.

​​

In order to do that, 

​

But there has to be a key moment of revelation: the characters will eventually realize that the ultimate, overarching cause was those who initially feared her extraordinary nature, when what she truly needed was unconditional love, which led to the cursed tape. In turn, people fear the cursed tape, would only reinforce the curse, because then we end up where we started, and it becomes a cycle. If fear was what brought about the curse, and the resulting curse multiplies the fear, it only follows that the curse will then be multiplied. Sadako's curse is self-reinforcing. In effect, they will realize that they fell into a self-fulfilling prophecy. 

​

It's a cycle. It's a ring in the worst sense. In order to survive, . Few, if any, would ever seek her out—they are either unable or unwilling, and as for the vast, vast majority, they are both. They either collapse in fear, or they avoid it entirely, passing the burden to someone else. Just as how in the cursed tape you must make a copy of the tape in order to .

​

​

Sadako couldn't do anything couldn't talk to anyone, was not understood, maybe doesn't even know how to make herself known, perhaps was too vulnerable and the . 

​​

Now when we break down the curse, it's surprisingly similar to what we already know about the human psyche. When the heart bears too much and cannot process all of it, it often buries it deep down in the subconscious. But sometimes, the person is 

​

Psychology: Psychological projection, venting, need to lift a burden, need to be seen, need to process it, need to find meaning for it, need others to share the burden. How art and literature convey emotion. Her memory is disjointed, just as unprocessed and unresolved trauma is embodied as disjointed memories and things that don't make sense. And so, when it's not processed, it manifests as this unprocessed, raw, disjointed, seemingly nonsensical sequence of memories. People think in symbols. People process in symbols, process in words, and process in experiences. But without actually trying to process it, it just remains as raw experience pushed deep into the unconscious. Eventually, it was projected because of Sadako's unresolved trauma pushing out and manifesting that way. That's my personal interpretation for how the curse works.​​

​

Sadako has a story that needs to be heard. Not only that. Not only does she have a story, she is a story that needs to be heard. That's why the curse keeps spreading. It needs to be known and truly honored. It is a story that will not stop until it finds resolution—the good ending it deserves. It needs to find redemption. The emotional magma that drives her story . That's what her curse is. A dormant volcano of tragedy, all trapped in a well, full of churning, turning magma of profound human voids, upon voids, upon voids. ​​

​​​

Yet Sadako's story through her tape so far has only been receiving fear and confusion in response, which only exacerbates the emotional magma that churns through it in the first place. It increases the intensity of that magma, causing it to bubble and jerk more violently within the well of the volcano it is trapped in.