For those hording toilet paper

Shimizu gives you bits and pieces, slight images or signs that will factor into a whole later. There's this distortion going on with Tomoko and her friend, Nori. The room is the key, the grudge is the source, and the characters are victims of circumstance (if only their agents had gotten them different gigs). We see Tomoko come home one night (this blog entry is a companion piece to the "Now you see me, now you don't" blog entry), a body dangling just out of frame (but visible enough to recognize as a hanging victim), shoes on the floor (multiple pairs), the light turned on, and the body gone. Cut to later, Nori sees Tomoko's light on, opens her door, and we see in the other room, Tomoko on her ass, a face frozen in horror, and Nori not yet knowing exactly what is happening in that other room. Then he talks to Tomoko, who is not home. He then realizes she's not in the other room, but he has a "visitor" awaiting him. Then Tomoko comes home, discovers her friend, and Shimizu lays it all out, including that eerie tap-tap-tap sound on Tomoko's wall (adding to this scene is the fact that Nori is with her when the sound happens around 12:30 am!). The idea that Nori can be alive and dead in the very same room at the very same moment is just surreal. I think it is quite the mindfuck.