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Date: 2003-03-16 19:26:02

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i believe their is indeed a kinship between aidan and samara, because if you'll notice... in almost every scene that aidan is seen sleeping, he's either faking it or immediately awake. so you get the impression of either no sleep, or very little. he does indeed share some physical characteristics with her, as well as psychosocial. aidan's mother is always working, samara's was always working too. aidan's father didn't involve himself in his life, and samara's tried his best not to.

the thing that grabs me the most, though. is the song that samara sings in front of the well. i've recently purchased the dvd, so i've tried my best to figure out just what she's singing. i've only deciphered two phrases "it never stops" and "it's never-ending". if you get around to watching the credits, keep watching still, at the end of the movie they play the song again, sort of reinforcing the idea of continuity.

i also believe samara's birth was that of natural origin, just not that of her mother, anna morgan's. it's obvious that her body wasn't suited for offspring, as her every attempt at pregnancy was a miscarriage.

i believe they fertalized one of anna's eggs and implanted it into the womb of a horse. there are too many links for me to dismiss this idea. though anna speaks of truly wanting her child, there is distance in her eyes and in her actions. this is sort of foreshadowing, just to put some space between samara and anna.

also, the "pictures" of the horse on the rockingchair looks strikingly similar to the pictures produced via ultrasound. so if samara were indeed inside of this horse, a pregnant horse [pregnant so her body would be in the proper stages to care for offspring] she would be seeing [babies can open their eyes in utero] another inhabitant of this horse's womb, only a horse, not a human. and if you remember, one of the "pictures" samara saw was of needles being inserted into the body of a horse, and an image of a human being [long-haired, we'll assume it's a girl (samara) laying inside of it]

also, when rachel dreams she's in the psychiatric hospital, she does indeed get a flash of herself sitting in a chair with electrodes all over her body. she's linked with samara, as is everyone else who watches the tape. this explains why the horse on the boat went insane after being touched by rachael. also, think about the prospect of a horse being shipped via a boat to another destination. this leans toward travel of not only human beings, but horses as well. so it may be farfetched, but assuming the horse traveling then with samara-like rachel would be lending to the idea of a horse traveling overseas with samara beforehand.

as for the deaths. i believe the expression on their faces is not only indicative of seeing samara, but also of the way she last saw the world before she was thrown into the well. with that plastic bag over her face she was no doubt gasping for breath, and nose bleeds are also closely linked with suffocation. we saw katie's death. the boyfriend, josh, he "killed himself" but we don't know how. the two friends die in a "car accident" not a car CRASH. the differece is, crash implies hitting something solid, accident does not. all of these deaths are somehow located around or near water. be it there to begin with, or brought on by samara. if you see the edited bits, put in the dvd, *spoiler* the innkeeper who let's rachel stay in cabin 12 also dies, in a boat, on water. the horses die in water. samara died in water. those who died on land were soaked in water. samara is simply lending her experience to anybody who sees it.

the horses are obviously involved in a lot of the story, so it the water, as is the way that samara died, the way she was treated by her parents, and the parallel drawn between her and aidan.

as for the tape itself. most of it is self-explanatory. the

3-legged goat: perhaps
images samara saw from her vantage point of a fetus inside of the horse.
the maggots: the maggots are tied to the flies that come flying out of the well. maggots become flies.
rivers of blood: this supports the idea of some greater evil.
thousands of bodies, flinging themselves upone one another: also, i feel this indicates some other level of evil.
the ladder: the ladder to the barn loft.
the centipede: the one in her file folder.
i do not, however, understand the severed fingers. any ideas?

i don't know, this is just my guess. i took a stab at it =D