Tuesday, November 23, 2010

THE OTHERS

The film is set after World war II in the Britain. Grace Stewart is a catholic mother who lives with her two small children in a remote country house. The children, Anne and Nicholas, have an uncommon disease characterized so their lives are structured around a series of complex rules designed to protect the from sunlight.
The new arrival of three servants at the house - an aging nanny and servant named Mrs. Mills, and elderly gardener number of odd events, and Grace begins to fear that they are not alone.
Every time Grace enters and exits the room, the door closes. Grace tries hunting down the "intruders" with a shotgun but cannot find them.
She is angry with her daughter and doesn't believe her stories until she hears them herself.
Anne draws pictures of four people: a man, a woman, a boy called Victor, and a scary old woman, all of whom she says she has seen in the house.
Grace finds and examines a "book of the dead", which shows photos taken in the 19th century of recently dead people.
A piano is heard from inside a locked room when no one is inside.
Eventually, convincing herself that something unholy is in the house, she runs out in the fog to get the local priest to bless the house.
The gardener buries a headstone under autumn leaves, and Mrs. Mills listens faithfully to Anne's talking against her mother.

No comments:

Post a Comment