Nereid
27-09-2003, 22:54
I watched the film Kairo last night, and was a little disappointed. Perhaps I let my expectations deceive me; I had read a number of online reviews (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0286751/externalreviews) that enthused about the intense and terrifying experience the reviewers had had with the film. However I found that the film left me not at all spooked, rather subdued and somewhat depressed, and puzzled. Very puzzled. I was hoping those who had also watched the film could answer some of the questions I have:
What precisely was the nature of the website the characters stumbled across? Were the people shown there ghosts, or people who had become or were about to become ghosts? Were the people ghosts waiting for a living human to construct a real-world refuge for them to inhabit?
What were The Forbidden Rooms? Were the rooms designed to house a ghost unable to find a place in the overcrowded spirit realm? Why were the rooms sealed with red tape? Were the rooms meant to confine the ghosts, preventing the living and unliving from interacting?
Who or what was the mysterious shade Ryosuke encountered in the library?
Why did Taguchi and Harue take their own lives, while Yabe, Junco and Ryosuke simply faded away to nothingness? Did the fact that the latter three characters all directly encountered spirits in one of the red-taped rooms have something to do with the curious manner of their deaths?
What was the significance/symbolism of the black stains? Why did the stain left by Junco disintigrate while the others were left intact?
Harue encountered an entity in her apartment before she died. What was it? Why did she also simultaneously appear on the ghostly website?
What was the significance/symbolism of the black refuse bag Harue placed over her head? Did it symbolise a loss or lack of identity? Was she trying to conceal herself from the world and deny the despair that was consuming her? Something else?
What precisely was the nature of the website the characters stumbled across? Were the people shown there ghosts, or people who had become or were about to become ghosts? Were the people ghosts waiting for a living human to construct a real-world refuge for them to inhabit?
What were The Forbidden Rooms? Were the rooms designed to house a ghost unable to find a place in the overcrowded spirit realm? Why were the rooms sealed with red tape? Were the rooms meant to confine the ghosts, preventing the living and unliving from interacting?
Who or what was the mysterious shade Ryosuke encountered in the library?
Why did Taguchi and Harue take their own lives, while Yabe, Junco and Ryosuke simply faded away to nothingness? Did the fact that the latter three characters all directly encountered spirits in one of the red-taped rooms have something to do with the curious manner of their deaths?
What was the significance/symbolism of the black stains? Why did the stain left by Junco disintigrate while the others were left intact?
Harue encountered an entity in her apartment before she died. What was it? Why did she also simultaneously appear on the ghostly website?
What was the significance/symbolism of the black refuse bag Harue placed over her head? Did it symbolise a loss or lack of identity? Was she trying to conceal herself from the world and deny the despair that was consuming her? Something else?