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That was a pretty poor reason. (SPOILERS)

posted 9 years ago by RagnarokWarrior
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So... I'm gonna be blunt: I hated Laura a lot worse than the people she was antagonizing.

Spoilers incoming. Alrighty. So, Laura gets passed out drunk and sharts herself. Alright. Bad feelings all around, a few people go full troll on her, then she guns herself down in public. Um. Alright. That's a pretty goddamn weak reason, but whatever. One year later, comes back to kill all her old friends and stand on the "oh, you all have secrets too!".

Laura, my dear, welcome to Humanity 10-frelling-1. People have secrets. It's common human nature to have this. What isn't common is to want to, and successfully, kill people over it. Embarrassing? Sure. But you're supposed to suck that up, buttercup, and get on with life. Not end yourself then come back for them. After she did die, all they did was say kind things. They felt like crap.

But you? You made the choice to end yourself. You went full on drama queen because you made a stupid, and then came back and murdered a bunch of relatively innocent people (standards of innocence may vary from beholder to beholder).

I'm sorry. I couldn't feel bad for Laura. At all. Worse, I actually came off wanting Laura to get purged and sent to the fiery hooks of Hell. Or whatever other torturous afterlife you can think up. She was a terrible person who literally killed people over a stupid frelling video. Sadly, that was not an option: Once again, as is most ghost movies, there is no way to protect or dispel the ghost, and we already knew the ghost knew who put the video up, so why kill everyone else?

I realize I'm overthinking a Ghost Movie, but when people are going on about how it "raises the bar of horror"... and I'm getting bored like, halfway through the movie, I feel I need to step up and say something. People say the best aspect is the story, when the story pretty much seals the deal that Laura was a whiny little drama queen who talked crap about everyone else, then when they kicked her down a peg, ended herself and then came back to kill them all. Over a video of her sharting herself.

Unless of course the entire movie was trying to say "Pretty much everyone's an *beep* even the supposed victim in all this". Then I'd just say "Um... sorry, but your attempt at being Forget Me Not failed. Badly". The least they could have done was make Laura more of a sympathetic character. Finding out how she was alive and after death pretty much sealed the deal that she was a terrible person that the Earth was better off without.

[–] horrorfan1122 9 years ago

If they treated her anything like they treated Val then the video would have only been the tipping point. We also have to remember that in highschool you have such a limited social circle compared to adults and something like that can make it feel like your life is over, on top of that her best friend was the one that filmed it.

You could argue from there about the fact that she should really go after the main character and not all the others, but I feel like in that situation she probably felt like the others are what influenced the main character to grow apart and turn antagonist on Laura.

[–] MooseNugget 9 years ago

Yeah everyone in this movie was a heel.

There are symptomatic "monsters." Boris Karloff was able to pull off very well.

I felt sorry for Laura but I can't ever see me killing myself over some BS on Facebook. Then again I was always more into web forums in middle and high school so I never had much interaction with people I knew in real life on the internet.

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[–] Floyd_Pinkerton 9 years ago

Funny, I always thought Karloff was actually quite professional in his ability to hide the increasingly cumbersome symptoms of his arthritis and emphysema, especially towards the end of his career.

[–] mel2000 9 years ago

I remember Karloff as the host of the TV show Thriller, which was his last showbiz job. He didn't act in many of those episodes so I'm wondering why you say arthritis and emphysema affected the end of his career.

[–] yusef-ghanima 9 years ago

DON'T HANG UP

[–] Flabrezu 9 years ago

Yeah, come on. Probably the entire school was bullying her and she had no friends; she had thousands of people telling her to kill herself, and her uncle likely molested her when she was younger. Just suck it up and move on! You raise an excellent point.

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[–] ciro_1809 9 years ago

Yep, I think it was implied pretty heavily that Laura was raped once. I don't know how cruel or how mean she was, but it was all probably a farce so she could shield herself. To be betrayed again by people that she trusted and to be left all alone... I can see how that would've driven her to suicide.

I'm not justifying her actions as a ghost, but I'm not giving a pat on the back to the bullies and terrible friends she had either.

[–] worth84 9 years ago

I agree with the OP, that is a weak ass reason to kill yourself, and also a weak ass reason to kill others. I just tried to ignore it and told myself that there are some people out there that do things for dumbass reasons and have stupid, petty motivations, and I was still able to enjoy the movie. I do think it would have been better though if the incident that led to her killing herself had been more vicious

[–] hernandez_harold12 9 years ago

Well that type of stuff happens. We can't argue with depression, it does a toll on people. Take the film "The Bridge". A documentary on the golden bridge in San Francisco being a main place for suicides. The film follows some of the people that killed themselves, alot of their lives seems preety average. Depression kills someone eternally, everyone is diffrent

[–] IvyTempleton 9 years ago

It is a weak reason but it's also weak to be cruel to people. What is with that? I never understood why people get off giving someone a hard time. It's not something you have to do to survive. It's not something that actually makes you feel good.

It may make you feel cool (which again is a weakness). Cool people actually look kind of gay in High School. They try so hard to be popular it's embarrassing.

I find human contact repulsive --Larry David

[–] General_Friday 9 years ago

It's a weak reason? Suck it up buttercup?

Let me ask you. Were you blessed/cursed with good looks and quick physical maturity at an early age, which not only turned your uncle on, but other men as well? Did your uncle fvck you when you were just a little girl? Was he someone that was supposed to be protecting you? Did you lack a true father and mother figure as you grew up?

In order to protect your vulnerable interior from being sexually and emotionally abused, did you pass yourself off as someone who was mean, and a bully? But for some reason, those who called you such really were girls on equal level with you, whom were just jealous of your looks? Is it a fact that despite how many people call you a bully, you've never actually picked on anyone lesser than yourself, and actually stuck up for them when true bullies were doing their thing?

Let me ask you another question. Did you have a best friend who you did everything with. That despite all the evil in the world, and nothing to shelter you from it, there was this one girl, who stood by you no matter what? She was the one person who knew how sweet you are on the inside despite how bad things have been around you. She knew you were the one person she had, that truly cared.

Then she too, betrays you. You truly have NO ONE.

If you don't see how bad this is then fvck you. Seriously man, just fvcking fvck you as much as you can possibly be fvcked you fvcking piece of sh*t.

🐺 "The North remembers"

[–] jinx_malone 9 years ago

Isn't the whole point though, that if Blaire had told the truth at any time she could have stopped it all from happening, which is why the ghost is contacting her and Mitch to begin with?

And keeps sending Blaire to that unexplainedforums site where they talk about how all you have to do to get rid of these evil spirits is to confess everything. Blaire refused to confess to the very end, that's why Laura killed them all.

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"It's better not to know so much about what things mean." David Lynch

[–] General_Friday 9 years ago

I'm not sure if Blaire confessing would have saved them all, or if each had to confess their sins. Either way, Blaire never confessed at all. She just kept saying she was sorry after her lies were exposed.

The link to unexplainedforums was sent by Mitch after Laura messaged him. We don't know what she sent Mitch, but presumably it was this link.

🐺 "The North remembers"

[–] jinx_malone 9 years ago

Good point and you're right about that. They would all have had to confess.

I wonder what else, if anything, Laura's ghost was saying to Mitch in PM's? Was he sending that unexplainedforums link to Blaire via a gentle nudge from Laura?

If it was Laura, she really was giving them a way out. Why wouldn't they take it? Were all of them being contacted in some way by Laura that night with links to the forum, but either didn't realize it was her or were too scared to say anything?

I wish Jess would have said something, out of all of them she did the least harm to Laura that we learn of.

I thought this was a scary, fun film and I liked it a lot.

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"It's better not to know so much about what things mean." David Lynch

[–] General_Friday 9 years ago

The way I thought of it was that somewhere in the underworld, Laura was given the power to enact her vengeance on these teens, but there are certain things that need to take place for it to happen that way.

For instance, Laura might have been told that she must give the lives she wants to take a way out prior to killing them. Hence, the link. But she can still manipulate the situation so that it is less visible to them. She can do whatever she wants SO LONG as the means of a way out is provided.

I felt so bad for Jess. She was crying the whole time after Ken, and when she became a sobbing mess when the game started saying, "I always lose" you can kind of tell she knew right there and then she was going to die.

Oh, and I think it was Adam that never really did anything directly to Laura. It's implied he drugged her, but not directly stated by anyone. He fell victim to a vicious, manipulative game by Laura. Adam was the least deserving to die by Laura, but the most deserving by human standards.

Pretty easy to see that Adam cared for Blaire, and didn't given two fvcks about Jess. All hail the sentimental douchebag.

🐺 "The North remembers"