The grudge is the movie about a curse that is born when someone dies of extreme anger
or sorrow.
The curse takes the form of a ghost, that’s capable of killing whoever it comes into contact
with.
The curse is passed on from person to person and it goes on forever.
It’s a terrifying concept to think about.
It’s a good thing that a curse isn’t born every time someone dies in extreme anger or
sorrow.
But what if the grudge wasn’t just a film, what if the grudge was real.
Lets imagine what it would be like, at least for the next few minutes.
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The first time I tried to watch the grudge, I actually couldn’t get through it, I left
the theatre and watched team America instead.
That’s how scared I was.
So you can understand how difficult it is for me to imagine what would happen if the
grudge was real.
But I’m going to do it for you, dear subscribers of life’s biggest questions.
The Grudge is an American supernatural horror film released in 2004 that was actually a
remake of a Japanese film called Ju-On: the grude.
And we all know just how much the Japanese love their supernatural horror.
Basically, the premise of the grudge is this.
Every time someone dies while being extremely angry or sad, a curse is born.
The curse appears as an entity where the person died.
The entity is known as an onryo ghost, which is a Japanese term for a vengeful spirit that
can cause harm to the living to try to redress the wrongs it experienced while it was alive.
According to Japanese urban legend, An onryo driven by vengeance has the power to cause
their enemy’s death, and also cause natural disasters.
The people who encounter the curse die, and then the curse is subsequently reborn and
passed from victim to victim.
Hense the name of the film, the grudge.
First things first, If the grudge was real, it would mean that every time anyone was murdered,
a curse would be born.
Unless the person who was murdered died without being angry or sad, but I would imagine that
being murdered is a pretty traumatizing experience.
Being murdered by a lover would definitely cause anger, or even extreme sadness, even
if the victim only felt those emotions for a short period of time before they died.
But if the grudge was real, it would give victims of murder a chance at revenge..
The story of the grudge dictates that the curse will appear as an entity wherever that
person died.
As we know, murderers often return to the scene of the crime that they committed.
It would mean that all victims of murders would have a chance to kill their murderers.
If the grudge was real, it could mean that people would be far less likely to commit
murders.
Knowing that it’s possible that the person who you killed could inevitably come back
as a vengeful spirit, that could then kill you would make a lot of people less likely
to commit murder.
I mean its not rocket science, you commit first-degree murder because you want to get
rid of someone.
The idea of your victim coming back for revenge is just not on the table.
I mean, you could technically avoid the curse as long as you stayed away from the place
where you committed the murder, but what if that place was your house?
If you committed murder in your house, you would inevitably have to move.
But this creates a problem that would end up with you being caught.
Whoever moved into your house after you would then encounter the curse, and likely die.
If the police knew about the death curse, it would be pretty difficult to get away with
murder.
Every person that lived in your house after you would die from the curse, and it all started
with the murder that was first committed.
All the police would have to do is figure out who the curse started with, and boom,
they know who the murderer is.
Then also address the curse being born out of the people who die of extreme sorrow.
Remember, its not just someone that dies in anger, The curse can also be born if you have
died of extreme sorrow.
An example of people who die of extreme sorrow could be prisoners of war.
Imagine what would have happened if the grudge was real in nazi Germany.
The combined sorrow from all of the prisoners at nazi death camps would have essentially
wiped out the Nazis.
Another example of someone who dies of extreme sorrow is someone that commits suicide, and
sadly, a lot of people commit suicide.
About 1.4 percent of all deaths are suicides.
Essentially someone that’s suicidal that knew about the curse could use their suicide
to get back at people who have wronged them.
A suicidal person could send out messages to the people who have wronged them asking
them to visit, then kill themselves so that the curse is born, and then when they are
visited by someone, for example an ex lover, the curse would kill that person.
And according to scientists, you really can die of a broken heart.
According to a study At Harvard medical school, if someone significant in your life dies,
your risk of heart attack increases to 21 times higher within the first day, and within
the first week, 6 times higher.
It’s the combination of stress, a lack of sleep and forgetting to take medication that
puts people who are mourning at risk.
Essentially if the grudge was real, we would all be pretty much screwed.
I know we say that a lot on this channel, but its true.
Think about it.
Every time someone dies of extreme anger or sorrow, a curse is born, and every time someone
came into contact with the curse, they would die, likely of extreme anger or sorrow, and
it would go on forever and ever until the end of time until there would be no one left.
Well there you have it, these are just a few examples of what I think would happen if the
grudge was real.
Let me know what you think would happen in the comments below.
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