The Others, covered with star for Nicole Kidman, magnific in the paper of Grace. It is end of World War II, but the husband
of Grace not yet came back toward house. Its children suffer of fotofobia, or hipersensibble to the light. Canine tooth in an imponent mansion e
frightful, Grace lives the blackout of her children, to the time where she tries if to keep discerning and hopeful of that the husband one day comes back. It is unaware of that it was died during the war. Grace lives with the two children in a mansion moved away from everything and all. Worried about well-being of the children who suffer from this rare illness, it keeps house in the darkness and all the closed doors. To prevent accidents, as it says, the norm is to lock any door before opening another one. Having finished to contract three new bred one it repasses the important rules to them of the house. Grace starts to coexist one strange phenomenon: her daughter has alucination of one another family in mansion and, to the few, the proper Grace starts to hear frightful noises in some rooms. Amenábar, when creating sensible
personages to the light of the Sun, obtains a way ideal to dive its film in the shades - valuable resource in one has filmed of terror. In this way, The author it involves the spectator in a tenebrous atmosphere and of great tension. After conquered the auditorium, the director plays making the inversion at the expectations, he surprises at two of the strongest scenes, in illuminated aposent; showing that what more scares is not blackout, but any different condition of those to which we are accustomed. The locked doors, the weak light, suggest very efficient claustrofobia to the film. This atmosphere is present until when Grace if it finds to the outdoors why the intense fog also evokes the element of claustrofobia. The Others bring a thematic exploration, in contrast of what it occurs in majority of the films that work with supernatural phenomena, personages try to argue that they in accordance with testify its proper religious beliefs - and this he adds a new dimension they. Grace, for example, does not obtain to understand (or to accept) the presence of espíritos in its house, as catholic, not it admits the simple existence of these entities. Thus, the occurrence of these experiences not only scare it, but also it confuses it when questioning its proper system of values. The film explores these theological conflicts to increase the tension of history, with the important attitude not to criticize any religion. The Other account with an excellent performance of Nicole Kidman in a paper complicated: Grace, the heroine of the film is also a woman of strong and complex personality. Its severity in reation of the children is dribbled by the affection that it obtains to repass. Another interesting work is of Fionnula the Flanagan, who creates the same likeable, but mysterious time, one governanta. The children, interpreted for Alakina Mann and James Bentley, they play well its papers, attracting the affection and taking the public to fear for its security. Working the resources of the sort - house badly haunted - as doors that they are closed alone, musical instruments that they emit confused sounds without they are manipulated, and outcries; The Others are frightful and involving until the end, where the secret is disclosed in way the well elaborated strong scenes.
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