Wow myth, temper temper. If you didnt like it fine, it's not like it beat you when you were a child....
There was a lot of symbolism in the imagery, but it does require a lot of attention. I cant remember everything off the top ogf my head, but there were some obvious things (the flaming tree being the one on the hill, the ladder falling because she stayed in a loft in the barn, her mother in the mirror)
The EKG pad is symbolic of her stays in the hospital, where she was treated like a freak. The face in the bag was her (mom put a bag over her head and suffocated her, also, on the dvd, there is a deleted scene where she gets whacked in the head with a rock.)
Not really sure what the centipede was for. i think that was there to be odd.
the fingers (both the ones in the box and the one with the nail being driven through it) represent her clawing at the inside of the well. She tore her nails off (rachel finds one in the mortar, and the Samara scene at the end shows her with no nails. that is a throwback to Ringu)
The maggots turning into people is a tough one. there was apparently a passage in the book that the japanese original was based on referred to something about "untold masses" or "suffering masses". I think it was left in because it was weird.
You can watch it again here:
http://www.neodymsystems.com/ring/index.shtml
this place has the video from the Ring and ringu. pretty cool.
Ahh yes, also, Aiden was concerned because Samara was onlyu able to reach people who saw the video, AND, the video only appeared because people tried recording a tape in the cabin over the well. Apparently, setting her free, she has more sway and create more. She seems to like causing fear and killing, so this is a bad thing.
I always found it interesting the look of utter contempt on her face just before killing Noah
