I was browsing through my movie watchlist, in search of something good to watch. And I came across The Others. I didn't quite remember what about the movie made me list it, I decided to watch it regardless. I thought it would be worth my time despite forgetting what it's about. I honestly did not expect much from the movie when I pressed play. I thought it would just be another one of those horror movies about a woman, her strange house, strange things happen and then a priest comes to exorcise the place. In fact, I figured I knew exactly how it would end. But this movie was completely different. Like it actually flipped the prediction I have of all ghost movies.

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Grace Stewart stays in a big mansion, along with her two children. A girl and a boy named Anne and Nicholas. Her husband who went to war hasn't returned home, leaving it just the three of them. Anne and Nicholas both suffers from a rare condition that makes them allergic to daylight, which means that every curtain in the house remain closed. Grace is very strict about that. And so, the house is almost always dark and gloomy.

Grace hires three new servants - Mrs Mills, Mr. Tuttle and Lydia - to help around the house. From the moment they arrive, weird things starts happening. Doors open on their own, strange noises echo through the halls and Anne starts talking about seeing other people in the house. Grace, being religious and already on edge, starts to believe that was an intruder in her house.

Throughout the movie, she becomes paraniod. She thinks there are ghosts trying to harm her children. She hears voices, sees things move and even starts losing her grip on what's real. And then she learns that the three servants she hired and had working with her were actually long dead, for over a century. After that, the truth drops. The twist I didn't see coming at all.

Grace and her children weren't being hunted, they were the ghosts.

I remember literally sitting there, stunned. All those signs, the locked rooms, the strange servants and even the "intruders" she thought were haunting her, they were actually the living people. Grace and her children died some time ago. She was in a state of denial until the memory of what happened came back to her. It was really heartbreaking for me to watch. She remembered how she smothered her children and then killed herself. That part got me. The movie was no longer scary at that point; it's just sad.

When everything clicked, my mouth literally dropped. The movie had been leading me on from the start and I completely fell for it. The entire time, I kept suspecting the servants and when Grace discovered that the servants had actually died years ago, I thought, "Aha, I knew it". But nah, I was wrong. I had just watched a whole movie, watching ghosts live their lives, feeling bad for them, thinking they were a victim of haunting, but ghost all along, they were the ghosts. The whole movie completely flipped in one scene and then it started to make sense.

Grace and her children remained in the house. They refused to leave even though they were already dead, claiming it as theirs. While the family who moved into the house left.

It's honestly brilliant storytelling. There was no need for jumpscares or blood. The fear came from the truth itself.

I liked how the movie played with perspective. We're so used to seeing ghosts as the scary ones haunting the living. But here, the movie flips it. The living were the strangers and the ghosts were the ones just trying to keep their home. It's genuis.

Nicole Kidman's performance sold everything perfectly. At the same time, she was strict, afraid, protective, and delicate. The shift from anger to confusion to realisation was heartbreaking to watch.

I would rate The Others a 9/10. It was indeed worth my time. If you love psychological horror, this one is absolutely worth watching.

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Source Source I like the way how everything looks dark but not so creepy to, the feeling is that theres so many hidden things that are going to be shown passing the time and there is one revelation, Grace kids Anne and Nicholas never go out of the house, the reason? apparently they have this rare condition where can´t be exposed to sunlight, they break out in blisters and start suffocating which sounds made up but you buy it. Grace has all these weird rules about keeping doors locked, no light can get in anywhere and everything has to be done in very specific ways, at first you think she's just this overprotective mom dealing with her kids medical problems but theres definitely something darker happening underneath. You also think that maybe because Grace now is a single mother because her husband went to war a year has passed since the war end but she doesn´t know anything about him, that situation can make a woman more overprotective definitely but she looks in certain point like a crazy woman with crazy ideas.

Source Source Things that really make me think is the way Grace treats her children, she is a good mother no one can deny that but in certain moments she is more of punisher and with the supernatural events that start to happen things are getting worst, specially with her daughter Anne that keep talking about this boy named Victor and an old woman she sees in the house, Grace truly believe that her daughter is making stories and punishes her for lying creating this awful tension between mother and daughter. The way Grace treats her kids is both loving and harsh at the same time, you can see how her fear for their safety has turned into this obsessive need to control everything they do, she reads them these dark Bible stories about children going to limbo if they tell lies and makes them study in separate rooms if they misbehave but her son Nicholas suffers the most because he does believe in ghost and the house work as an individual being creating this feat in the kid and more when things start happening like doors opening by themselves and piano music playing when no ones there, indeed is scary but apparently the servants knows why that is happening but Grace get no response. Theres a moment when we finally met Grace husband but when he arrived at his house things are not like it suppose to be, a couple that has been separated by war, she is waiting for him with her kids, they are really happy because her husband and father is back but he seems different, almost like they are not there, so in that precisely moment your brain start working and thinking that probably the director is giving you hints of what could really be happening with this family. All the production in this movie was well thought, since the mansion where is develop the story, see all the rooms, all those species that can look comfy and creepy at the same time, the clothe that is always important to represent the time were this story in taking place, the acting both the kids and the adults are great, its all awesome. Director Almodobar, he really knows how to create this suspense environment, he didn´t play with the classic jump scares scenes or brought the infamous horror of many horror movies, not he was constructing a story, step by step, making you believe in what he was presenting and suddenly the scares came and take you by surprise.

Source Source It´s really impressive that this movie didn´t come from a bestseller is all the directors imagination and that makes every moment fell fresh and unpredictable. They way Amenabar plays with your mind, giving you scenes where you truly believe in something and then twisted everything. In this movie heroes and villains doesn´t exist and I mention this because people could think that probably Grace and her kids are the good ones but they are not neither the good or bad ones, and that is fascinating, sometimes a movie doesn´t need jump scare, gore, blood to be scary, sometimes a psychological horror is more disturbing for the most simple reason, your mind is the more powerful machine and if its manage to don´t understands what is seeing and work hard to have true, that true can be more painful and heartbreaking and that is what happen with this movie.

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Para esta ocasión me gustaría hablar de la película Los otros, protagonizada por Nicole Kidman. En esta película vemos a Grace (el personaje de Nicole) como una madre excesivamente estricta, de carácter amargado, con matices muy oscuros, pero esto en realidad se debe a que su única prioridad es cuidar a su hijos y evitar en la medida de lo posible que su padecimiento empeore, viven en una época convulsionada (la guerra) así que ¿Cómo podría sentirse una madre viviendo sola con sus pequeños en una época así? probablemente siempre estaría a la defensiva, pero su problema es que ella no sabe canalizar las emociones y por eso entra en pánico ante los supuestos intrusos y amenazas, lo que me lleva a recordar una de las famosas frases de Sexto Sentido: "Ellos ven lo que quieren ver"

Creo que una madre es una madre sin importar donde esté, (si vieron la película entenderán lo que intento decir) pero creo que una buena madre es aquella cuya única prioridad son sus hijos, los ama y protege en todo momento, por eso debemos celebrar con amor su día. En cuanto a la forma en la que celebramos este día tan especial en mi cultura y país (Venezuela) usualmente ofrecemos regalos a nuestra madre (quien siempre nos dice que sus hijos son su mayor regalo) y también las llevamos paseo a almorzar o a cenar. Aquí les dejo una fotografía de mis hijas y yo cenando con mi esposa.

Para mi fue un gran placer haber participado por primera vez en este concurso, muchas gracias por darle la oportunidad, nos vemos en una próxima oportunidad, Dios mediante.

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Grace es una madre joven que de pronto se ve en la necesidad de contratar a tres empleados ya que desde hacía una semana sus sirvientes habían desaparecido sin explicación. Grace les explica a los nuevos empleados las reglas de la casa que deben cumplir a cabalidad, en especial eso de cerrar una puerta antes de abrir otra y mantener las ventanas cerradas para evitar la luz del día, ya que sus hijos son fotosensibles, es decir, la luz del sol lastima su piel. Pero a medida que va pasando el tiempo tanto Grace como sus hijos comienzan a notar que algo extraño sucede dentro de la casa, empiezan a escuchar voces y sonidos raros, de hecho la pequeña Anne le cuenta que ha tenido contacto con un niño llamado Víctor que vive allí junto a su familia, y la tensión comienza a crecer cada vez más y más detrás de los muros de esa casa a medida que Grace se da cuenta de que lo que sucede no es producto de la imaginación de los niños o los sirvientes, realmente sucede algo raro, algo relevante además porque de pronto, su existencia tuvo un cambio radical absolutamente impresionante 😲.

Hay muchas cosas dignas de resaltar en este film, en primer lugar el guion que está muy bien escrito, con dialogos bien colocados, por otra parte la trama está tan bien hecha que te resulta imposible deducir lo que sucederá al final. Algunos llegaron a comparar este film con Sexto Sentido debido al plot twist del final, pero digamos que es lo único en lo que se parece porque del resto es muy diferente pues otro de los aspectos que me encanta de este es que está contado desde el punto de vista de los muertos, no de los vivos, y de la forma en la que ellos perciben a "los intrusos" descubrimos como son sus emociones, pero además de esto no vemos la historia de fantasmas cualquiera, sino que somos testigos de su evolución, sentimos con ellos la misma sorpresa y la misma angustia al darse cuenta de lo que sucede en realidad.

Por otra parte me encanta la fotografía, Amenábar cuidó muy bien de este aspecto pues algunas escenas fueron rodadas a la luz de las velas para generar una ambientación de misterio, pero al mismo tiempo no son demasiado oscuras, afuera de la mansión por su parte la niebla juega un papel importante y vemos como el color gris toma relevancia como una representación de los sentimientos de Grace

Por otra parte tenemos un trabajo excelso en el diseño del vestuario, donde de cierta forma nos revelan que algo no anda del todo bien, pues si eres lo suficientemente detallista te darás cuenta de que los sirvientes de Grace viste de una forma diferente a ella, y no me refiero a la opulencia, sino que los de ellos lucen anacrónicos y esto se debe a que en efecto pertenecen a una época distinta

Todos los detalles están perfectamente cuidados para que no se escape ningún detalle, para que al final todo tenga sentido. Por otra parte esta película no abusa de los Jumps scares tan usados hoy en día, al contrario, casi no los tiene, el director recurre a sustos genuinos provocados por lo que el espectador ve en ese momento, pero antes de que ocurra el susto existen preámbulos que sirven para ambientar al espectador y mantenerlo en suspenso.

Esta película hizo que comenzáramos a ver el mundo paranormal de una forma distinta, más "humana" por llamarlo de alguna manera, te hace plantearte preguntas como "¿Quienes son los verdaderos intrusos?" o "¿Quién tiene más miedo?" Ellos, "los otros" también tienen emociones, también sienten miedo y también se desconciertan ante las situaciones confusas.

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One of the least appreciated ingredients for a successful film career is good timing. Having a great idea for a film will be less important if the same idea was used before, even by someone less talented. This happened with Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar with his 2001 horror film The Others.

The plot is set in 1945 in Jersey, one of the Channel Islands which had been occupied by Germans during the recently ended Second World War. Those events are, however, of little concern to Grace Stewart (played by Nicole Kidman), a woman who lives in a remote country house. She has two children – Anne (played by Alakina Mann) and Nicholas (played by James Bentley) – who suffer from an extreme form of photosensitivity. Grace, whose husband Charles (played by Christopher Eccleston) is considered missing in action while fighting in the British Army, is extremely protective of her children and doesn't allow not only sunlight, but electricity and other modern appliances in the house. She, however, needs house help and it comes in the form of housekeeper Mrs. Bertha Mills (played by Fionnula Flanagan), gardener Edmund Tuttle (played by Eric Sykes) and a mute girl named Lydia (played by Elaine Cassidy). Grace's children soon begin to experience all kinds of strange phenomena, while Anne claims that she met a strange family, including a boy named Victor (played by Alexander Vince) who claims that the house is theirs. Grace begins to confront the possibility that her house is haunted.

The Others was the first English-language film for Amenábar, who, thanks to imaginative thrillers Thesis and Open Your Eyes, had gained a reputation as one of the best Spanish filmmakers of his generation. His script uses a relatively simple template of Gothic ghost story to create an exciting horror film that looks "old school" in a positive sense. Instead of cheap shocks and CGI effects, Amenábar effectively creates an atmosphere of dread and mystery, while also engaging viewers' brains and allowing them to draw their own conclusions about what is going on. Amenábar can also rely on a relatively small but effective cast which includes Nicole Kidman in one of her more demanding roles. Kidman who, according to her own statements, actually didn't want the role because it was too dark and "giving her nightmares", is very good, but veteran Irish actress Fionnula Flanagan is much more impressive in the role of a housekeeper who apparently knows more than she is willing to tell. The Others is a very good film, but the ending is somewhat too abrupt and less satisfactory than the rest of the film would indicate. But the worst problem for Amenábar is that the major plot twist of his film is not exactly original and that it was used by M. Night Shyamalan two years earlier in The Sixth Sense. More perceptive viewers and even those who haven't seen Shyamalan's film might not be that surprised by the twist, but Amenábar nevertheless manages to keep the film looking fresh and original. Although it didn't make much of an impression at the US box office, it was a massive hit in Amenábar's native Spain and established a box office record that would remain unsurpassed for more than a decade.

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Tengo que hablar en primer lugar de la fotografía ya que es bastante peculiar, en su mayoría es totalmente oscura (por argumentos narrativos) pero a su vez ayuda con la ambientación de esta. Una paleta de colores casi monocromática y un filtro gris para escenas de luz. Los planos me parecen espléndidos, algunos cerrados, otros estáticos y algunos de acercamiento cerrado, lo que como ya saben, ayuda a sumergir al espectador en las sensaciones de los protagonistas (sobre todo cuando se trata de de sentimientos negativos).

Las actuaciones también fueron soberbias, Nicole Kidman hace un papel espléndido, y creo que las actuaciones son las responsables de evitar el tedio en el espectador, ya que la historia se centra en una casa y solo hay 6 personajes recurrentes (o al menos eso es lo que pasa en un principio)

La historia es bastante interesante: Una mujer (Nicole Kidman) está a cargo de sus dos hijos, los cuales padecen de una extraña enfermedad (fotosensibilidad) y una mañana recibe a tres personas que trabajarán para ella debido a que de un momento a otro, sus sirvientes han desaparecido o se marcharon. Su esposo, fue a luchar en la guerra y ella no tiene noticias de él.

Tras una serie de acontecimientos, Grace (la madre) empieza a sospechar que su hija está tras los ruidos y las voces que se suelen oír, ya que ella dice que un tal Victor, es el responsable, pero a medida que investiga, Grace descubre una espeluznante verdad que cambia totalmente la trama.

La historia es bastante dinámica, aborda y desarrolla muy bien el terror. El misterio es muy latente y nos mantiene al borde de la silla, además de que nunca superaré el final, fue épico y la verdad es que no me lo esperaba para nada ya que la película cumple con revelar los secretos muy lentamente y aún así, para cuando llega el final, sigue sorprendiendo, no es predecible en lo absoluto.

And well, people, that's all for today's post, I hope you liked it. Thank you very much as always for supporting my work, I welcome new readers, I love you all very much, I send you a hug and I'll see you in another post.

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The Others is a horror-thriller genre film, released in 2001. This one is directed and written by Alejandro Amenabar. In short, I loved the movie, how it started from usual horror stories to something different, leading us to the ending twist to leave you perplexed in a sudden shock. You can say, that's what most thriller movies do, yes it is but the question is how satisfying that story moved on along with a twist.

The plot begins with a family of four, a single mother and two children living in a big house, her husband is in the war. It was during World War II. So yeah, it's like most of the common horror movies plot, family with kids in a giant house, and there are unusual activities. Same thing happened but there was something more, three servants in their house. She needed servants and advertised for them but that mail was never collected to be advertised and they reached at their doorstep coincidentally.

Oh yeah, another thing, those two kids were suffering from a disease like photosensitivity, so they were never exposed to sunlight, always curtains on the windows and different rules to avoid sunlight. On seeing those scenes you might wonder if something is wrong with them, maybe our agenda of enjoying horror/thriller scenes are related to this cause.

The little girl used to see others' presence that every other denied, she used to see people, maybe those who are dead as per the story progressed. After a while, you may feel suspicious about the servants too, yeah their activities were like that too. You might be wondering how they are gonna survive, another prime question to be solved is, can the living live with the dead? Hehe, they might be trying to escape from that dilemma in which way? Can they? Those were the questions and situations.

So from the usual horror movie prompts it turned into a little bit different, serving us with some beautiful performance and suspense. Maybe the ending would serve you a little more to enjoy. Overall it was a good one, from scripting to all production works, plot, and the overall performance from them, it all synced pretty well from my point of view and I did enjoy it a lot.

Maybe this one has become short but as you know, horror and thriller movies are better with less description. Overall I would love to rate it 8 out of 10. If you are looking for a horror or thriller genre film then go for it, you would surely like it. Happy Watching!

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¡Hola a todos! El día de hoy les traigo la reseña de una las películas de terror y suspenso más inolvidables de todos los tiempos, se trata pues de "The Others". Un título que estoy segura muchos de ustedes conocen y si no es así, pues quédate para que te enteres ¡Comencemos!

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The Others es una película dirigida por el gran director chileno-españok, Alejandro Amenábar, y que tiene dentro de elenco como actriz protagonista a la talentosa Nicole Kidman como Grace, una mujer conservadora y religiosa que aguarda la llegada de su esposo junto a sus dos hijos en una gran casa. La película fue estrenada en el año 2001 y fue premiada con ocho premios Goya.

Reseña de la película:

La historia se situa después de acabada la segunda Guerra mundial con el personaje de Grace, una mujer dueña de una gran casona, casada y con dos hijos, quién decide contratar algunos empleados para que le ayuden con las labores domésticas y demás. Todo esto ya que ella se encuentra sola y necesita ayuda para mantener el hogar, en ausencia de su esposo quién combatió en la guerra y aún no llega a casa.

Grace recibe entonces a tres personas que están interesados en ocupar esos cargos. Estos serán importantes durante el desarrollo de esta historia. La servidumbre está constituida por tres personas; la Señora Bertha Mills, una mujer de avanzada edad pero que posee experiencia suficiente en el cuidado de un hogar, el Señor Edmund Tuttle, un jardinero con saberes en otros oficios y finalmente Lydia, una jovencita que cumple con casi cualquier orden que se le dé.

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Grace les explica a los tres que sus hijos tiene una condición física que los hace fotosensibles a cualquier contacto con la luz solar o con cualquiera que sea demasiado intensa. Por lo que como reglas de la casa está prohibido abrir las cortinas, encender lámparas muy potentes y sobre todo, cerrar las puertas por las cuales han entrado, es decir, todas las habitaciones a las cuales ingresen deben permanecer siempre cerradas para evitar la entrada de luz de una habitación a otra.

Es así como comienzan a trabajar y podemos comenzar a conocer a los demás habitantes de la casa. Los niños son Anne y Nicholas, ambos son bastante reservados, un poco tímidos y temerosos. Pero Anne suele ser más atrevida que su hermano. Su madre es de fuerte temperamento, extremadamente religiosa, conservadora y muy rígida por lo que en cuanto observa que los empleados empiezan a consentir a los niños, está se molesta.

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Es aquí cuando empiezan a suceder cosas extrañas. Anne y Nicholas empiezan a comentar a su madre que hay un niño en la casa llamado Victor con quién ellos hablan y le cuenta cosas. Muebles, puertas, pianos, cortinas y demás empiezan a ser movidos. Grace cree que se encuentra frente algún tipo de actividad paranormal y se refugia en sus libros sagrados e intenta mantener a raya todo lo que sucede en la casa.

Inesperadamente, Grace encuentra a su marido en la entrada de su casa en medio de una gran neblina. Ella se encuentra feliz con su llegada pero el parece no estar contento. Permanece en el hogar pero sin mencionar palabra alguna, hasta que Grace descubre a su marido hablando con Anne y está parece estar contándole algo... El se marcha así como llego y desaparece entre la niebla.

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Anne estudia para su primera comunión y este será el momento de la cúspide de la película. Su madre cada vez más frágil mentalmente, observa como todo se sale de las manos. Sus hijos investigan el hogar y se dan cuenta de que los empleados en realidad están muertos y corren a decirle a Grace. Los tres son perseguidos por aquellos fantasmas y repentinamente una mujer anciana aparece e intenta contactarse con Grace. Está anciana es en realidad una médium que intenta hacer desalojar a los fantasmas de la casa.

Grace es enfrentada por esta médium quién le hace saber la realidad de una vez por toda: tanto ella como sus hijos, Anne y Nicholas, son fantasma. Grace recuerda entonces como fue que ella mató a sus hijos y luego se suicidó al enterarse de que su esposo había muerto en combate. Todo cae por su peso.

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Grace nunca quiso aceptar esa realidad y por ello decidió continuar con su vida como era antes. De hecho su hija Anne en varias ocasiones la acusa de hacer algo, aunque no mencionaba el qué. La servidumbre falleció antes de la llegada de la familia de Grace y solo quisieron hacerle saber su verdadero estado.

El final nos muestra como Victor, es el niño que en la otra realidad, la terrenal, los niños de Grace observaban. Su familia se marcha de la casa cuando la médium les dice que es imposible que Grace y los demás salgan de allí. Grace le pide disculpas a sus hijos y aceptan su condición como fantasmas, dejando en claro que ellos vivirán por siempre en ese lugar.

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Los Otros nos trae una historia de terror muy refrescante aunque toma algunas referencias de películas como El Sexto Sentido y la atmósfera características del director de cine Hitchcock. Definitivamente nunca se prevee que los verdaderos fantasmas era toda la familia de Grace. Tampoco se espera que haya sido ella quién acabó con los tres.

También recuerda un poco a la Casa del Fin de los tiempos, dónde se viven dos realidades diferentes en una misma historia. La familia de Grace en un espacio espiritual y la familia de Víctor, compartiendo un mismo espacio.

Sin duda alguna, The Others será por siempre una película de esas que poco te dejan saber y te sorprenden con un gran final que deja un sin sabor extraño. Hasta aquí este artículo y no me puedo ir sin antes despedirme. Agradezco a todos los que pasan por aquí y apoyan mi trabajo. Un fuerte abrazo y nos vemos en otra oportunidad.

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The Others is a 2001 American horror film starring Nicole Kidman, who won a Golden Globe Award for her role in the film, written and directed by Alejandro Amenabar. It is also the first non-Spanish film to win the Spanish Goya Award.

The story of this film is inspired by the novel The Turn of the Crew, a novel about psychological horror, with a budget of about 17 million US dollars, and revenues exceeded 209 million US dollars, but the story is purely fictional and not, as it is rumored about some horror films, that they are horror films that actually happened

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The events of the movie “The Others”

The events of the film begin from the place where the events take place, which is the English Channel Islands, with the awakening of Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman) from a nightmare, and that was in 1945 in Jersey, and her husband was fighting in France, but he had not yet returned to his homeland, despite the end of the war, and Grace Stewart lives Alone with her two children.

The film tells of how Mrs. Grace woke up one day when she did not find the previous servants, and three new servants she had sent for her arrived at her house, they are the old lady Bertha Mills, the servant Mr. Tuttle, and the little maid Lydia, and Grace insists to give them instructions despite Bertha telling her that they They served in this house before.

Grace told the servants that her sons Anne and Nicholas suffer from a rare type of sensitivity to sunlight, and that they would die if they were exposed to the sun, so she made sure to close all the windows and draw the black curtains, and prevented any door from opening, and Mrs. Grace's response to Bertha was very strong Strict, when Bertha suggested that she try the sun's rays on her children, this rare disease might have gone away.

At this moment, Grace hears strange sounds and movements in the house, she discovers that there is a family of a man, a woman, an old woman, and a boy named Victor living with them in the house. Don't scare her brother.

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Grace scolds her daughter and forbids her to say that because she is scaring her brother, but the girl goes on and tells her mother that she is playing with Victor, and she also told her that the old lady asks her what happened, so the mother gets upset and locks the child into her room

Grace believes that the house is inhabited by evil spirits, and decides to bring the priest, but Bertha tries to stop her because of the fog, but Grace insists and goes out and finds her husband in the fog.

He enters the house with her and she told him what happened, which made him angry and sad, so Grace tells him that she was depressed about what is happening. And she went to look for the curtains, and she fired the servants when she asked them to find the curtains, and their response was that there was no need for these curtains, as she thought that they did it on purpose to kill her two children.

While searching for the curtains, she finds the Book of the Dead belonging to the owners of the old house, only to be surprised that the pictures of the three servants are among the pictures of the dead in the book.

With the increasing effect of intruders in the house and the shaking of the house, he made her take the gun to kill the servants, and she finds Mr. Tuttle in the garden, who tells her of their death a long time ago and reveals to her their graves.

Grace ran to the house to hide with her children, she saw the old lady again talking to Anna and Nicholas holding papers, to reveal to them that they were dead, and Grace and her children shouted that they were not dead and scattered the papers.

The events of the film start from a reverse angle, showing Victor's mother telling her husband that she will not remain in this way, which has become haunted, after the woman who lived in it before, referring to this lady Grace herself, strangled her two children and killed herself.

Then the servants come home again to tell Grace that they are all dead but that they don't know why they are staying in this house, and that they must coexist with any new inhabitants of the house.

The viewer discovers an unexpected ending in the movie, as throughout watching the movie, you will not expect that the angle is reversed and that the protagonists are the ones who died, and it turns out that the “infiltrators” are the only people alive in the house.

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Analysis of the movie “The Others”

This film reflects a different view of any viewer who imagines while sitting to watch a horror movie. The movie talks about a haunted house, but it does not match the type of horror that the viewer might imagine. It is not full of effects, violent shocks, undulating stairs, intervening corridors, tombs, and doors It won't close or won't open, which is what happens in horror movies, some of which are less than movies inspired by a true story.

This movie embodies the state of psychological horror, especially when you see the end of the movie and you will know what the director of the work means. Passion, we may be the reason for the destruction, suffocation or imprisonment of those we love under the pretext of their protection and love.

This movie is in contrast to any horror movie, especially horror movies of real stories, quiet, dark and full of sadness, and the slowness of the characters and events is part of the embodiment of the state of psychological horror that the viewer falls under its influence while waiting for the climax of events, as it is a waiting and evasive game in the first place.

Director Alejandro Amenabar managed to create an atmosphere of vulnerability, and Nicole Kidman managed to convince the viewer that she was an ordinary person in a disturbing situation and not just an ordinary horror movie.

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The Others movie between classicism and philosophical vision

This film sparked widespread controversy, as it combined classic horror with a deep vision of events that embody the state of psychological horror through the mirrored mirror. It carries new and deep ideas that transcend the limits of classic horror to present a deep philosophical vision. The film begins with scenes that suggest classic horror films such as the fog that surrounds With a large house that creates a state of mystery and suspense, but contrary to what the viewer imagines, where the director manipulates the viewer’s imagination throughout the film to find himself seeing the image in reverse, the heroine throughout the film is afraid of the presence of intruders, but the end shocks you that the intruders are the living and that Grace, her children, her husband and the servants are dead.

This shocking ending ranked the film as one of the best films of the twenty-first century, as there is a complete reversal of the accepted standards despite the logical references that are absent from the viewer's eyes amid the classic features surrounding the events.

Where the film shows the two ideas of death and life as two sides of the same coin, the film also presents symbols that refer to deep and mysterious thoughts, the fog that surrounds the house is a deep reference to everything that surrounds one in his life, in addition to the comedy that is perfectly employed through usual life situations, such as ideas The two children during discussions.

The film succeeded due to the integration of all the basic components on which all events are based, such as the strength of the script, the idea itself is new and amazing, and the direction that was able to employ everything in its place, such as lighting, music and mystery, in addition to the wonderful performance of the actors.

I've watched my fair share of horror movies - from grisly to sometimes comedic ones and don't forget the ugly - but there are few that stick out story wise and the way everything unfolds. That's where the movie The Others comes in.

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Some ten plus years ago this gothic supernatural psychological horror film was being broadcasted on the television and I remember watching it early in the evening all alone. It wasn't scary from the beginning, but there were instances where that eerie feeling crept up. Especially when the audience is being kept in suspense and some clues but not all were given, which left me with more questions than answers.

For those who aren't familiar with The Others, it's about a mother named Grace living with her ill Children Anne and Nicholas all alone in a manor during World War 2, until Grace hires some servants. It's during that time that Grace and her family experience strange things occurring in their home, with Anne even seeing "other" people who aren't supposed to be there.

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Grace tries to get to the bottom of it all and even deploys a search party with help from the servants, who appear to have and keep their own secrets from Grace. This got me wondering if they were to be trusted or if the servants were the ones who brought "the others" into Grace's home.

When the answers to all of my questions finally had gotten revealed - which was done in a smart way I might add - it all made sense and the ending had left me with mixed feelings. It wasn't what I had expected and was definitely not written in a run of the mill horror story and yet the story still touched me.

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If you would want to know more about why I formed above opinion about The Others or if you would like to form your own, I definitely recommend this movie. Let me know in the comments below 🤓.

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Let me say this at first: If you have seen this movie please please please do not spoil it for people that have not seen it (you know what I am talking about) because the twists in this movie are remarkable and shocking. This is one of my favorite ghost movies of all time.