In the scene when the guy tries to erase a clip from the interview he took with a girl with shoulder length hair, he can't for some reason, and then she starts shaking her hair like crazy and starts coming towards the screen.
And also, what's going on at the end when he turns around and she's there?
I'm confused! Help me!
i think i said this in a post here a couple of days ago but i really like this subplot. the guy is okizaki and the girl is kanae. i think that the point of the subplot is basically to show the far reaching effects of the curse. okizaki never sees the tape but he is still definitely cursed by it by the end of the film. the other thing this subplot does is elaborate on the idea that being killed by sadako's curse isn't the end of it. many of sadako's victims seem to be in her employ, or at least still suffering. kanae's ghost, betrayed by okizaki, haunts him.
I will s**t down scorpions of pain upon thee!
Cool. Thanks, Asakawa!
shareid say it was because he betrayed her by NOT seeing her tape and much like sadakos rage formed on a tape, so did hers so she is like a second sadako. BUT did ozikaki think he had seen the tape when he watched the experiment (he seemed freaked)or was he just a coward? i know thats pretty much what yor post said, but im just bored and felt like sharing
You silly sausage! what are you doing?!!
yeah
i thought that some how, she became the beginning of a new tape or something and when she was coming towards the tv, she was coming out of it like sadako.
To NeeroX,
I think this is right on about Kanae being like a second Sadako.
But because Kanae's rage is so fresh, and only inspired by a single act of betrayal, and because she hasn't had enough time to let it really fester and grow, her ghost probably isn't as powerful as Sadako's. She stares ominously at the camera in the video that Okazaki was trying to copy/edit/delete, but we never actually she her crawl out of the TV (like Sadako clearly did). We only see her again in Okazaki's jail cell, without seeing an audio-visual device to serve as the medium. In fact, we don't even see her do anything violent, at all. She apparently just scares Okazaki into being considered insane. So it looks like her ghostly powers are only in their early stages at the end of the movie.
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Okazaki saw some of the imagery from Sadako's mind through the eyes of Masaki in the hospital on the new tape copy, which Mai destroyed. For example, he saw Shizuko combing her hair. But he never watched it all the way through.
When he called Kanae back from the newspaper office, he lied and said he had seen the video too, in order to put Kanae's mind at ease, and also to try to get her to open up about what she, herself, had seen on the video tape. He asked her if she knew anything about the woman seen combing her hair, as a way of testing Kanae, and of determining if they were both talking about the same creepy imagery. Kanae confirms that she had seen the hair-combing lady, but she didn't know her name. This let Okazaki know that he had, indeed, begun to see part of the cursed video imagery. He was getting awfully close to incurring the curse, himself! But he certainly did not want to finish with that! So he puts the video tape copy away, and never finishes watching it.
He wasn't a coward; he was RIGHTFULLY very afraid!
But he was a liar.
And his lie cost a beautiful, sweet young girl her life. So he was also a negligent homicider, or manslaughterer.
id say it was because he betrayed her by NOT seeing her tape
I disagree that Okazaki was cursed by the tape. Much like Mai, he never watched the tape in its entirety. He only saw bits and pieces of its imagery, through the eyes of Tomoko's friend, the institutionalized girl Masaki. Therefore, he was never cursed by it.
But he did screw up by lying to Kanae and never watching the tape copy, which got her killed, and made her angry enough to become a vengeful ghost, herself. He basically inspired a whole new curse, which resulted in him getting himself haunted by Kanae's ghost--not Sadako's.
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I'd say that the girl Kanae felt betrayed by the reporter Okazaki because he did not really watch the video tape copy, which got her killed by Sadako, and then she got angry enough with him to become an onryu/vengeful ghost, in her own right.
She was not Sadako. Once she was killed by Sadako, she had anger of her own. She seemed to be guided by her own motives, from that point.