the others storyline
The story of the movie "The Others" revolves around a woman who lives in a large house with her son and daughter, where they live in complete darkness inside the house, due to the extreme sensitivity to light in her two children, and her daughter sees some things and people that no one else sees, and then there is mystery and excitement, when the mother gradually begins to feel what her daughter sees, but without tangible evidence of that, and the story begins to gradually become clear so that the mother can realize the whole truth, and at the end of the movie we see a real surprise waiting for her.
The movie is considered one of the horror and mystery movies, despite the absence of very scary scenes, but the horror is represented in the unknown that you do not see, and this is the source of the movie's strength in my opinion, as we see the extent of the mystery of the story until the last moments, which makes you passionate about removing the mystery.
The Others offers us a wonderful performance from its heroine Nicole Kidman with the two children, and you feel with it a lot of addition to its story, and it deserves great praise, especially since most of the scenes were filmed in the presence of weak lighting, which makes the focus on the faces Powerful, to see the emotions coming from it very clearly.
The Others movie events
One of the strangest beginnings I have ever seen in my life, as the film begins with a mother screaming while sleeping on her bed, then she gets up and turns around and looks at her watch, then sighs with relief, as if she had a very disturbing dream.
The doorbell rings and Grace (Nicole Kidman) opens it to find three people, two women and a man, so she asks them to enter on the basis that these are a group of servants who came to work in the house, as she had announced her request for servants a short time ago, so they entered and got to know each other quickly, and she began to introduce them to her customs and those of her children, and the most important things that they must be careful of in this house, and where they sleep, then she took the two women to get to know her children, the boy Nicholas and the girl Anne, and she also informed them of the children's sensitivity to light, and the necessity of keeping the curtains of the house drawn and the doors closed, when entering from one place to another, then after that she ordered them to start their work after that in the house.
One of the two ladies started making breakfast for the children, when she heard the girl saying to her, “Are you going to leave us like the others did?” and also saying that their mother had gone crazy. Her brother shouted at her that this did not happen, when Grace entered and asked the lady to go out with her. Then she told her that the advertisement for the servants had not been published, so how did they come here to work? The lady told her that they came by chance, because a big place like this house needs servants. She also told her that she knows the place well, because she used to work there years ago. Grace was convinced, which made her tell her that her children sometimes have strange thoughts, and that they should not pay attention to their strange talk.
The beginning of the terrifying events was when Grace was helping the two children with their studies, and teaching them never to lie, she separated them from each other, and put each of them in a room to study alone, and she was in the hall of the house, when she heard a child crying, she quickly ran to Nicholas' room but did not find anything, so she rushed to Anne's room, and did not find anything either, so she confronted Anne that she heard her and that she certainly did not imagine that, so the child told her that the one crying was Victor, so she asked her who Victor was, and she replied that he was a spoiled child who was here a minute ago, and that his family was here with her as well, so Grace asked her to be quiet and not to say such lies, and asked her where he was now, so she indicated to her that she had gone from there, so the mother found an open door and was shocked.
Grace thought that the servants had done it, and that they had forgotten her orders not to leave the door open, so she brought the two ladies and scolded them severely, although they denied it, but they finally yielded to her rebuke.
Victor kept appearing in the house, and the only one who saw him was the little girl, Anne, but her mother Grace did not believe this, and decided to punish her by keeping her alone, until she learned never to lie, until something happened that made Grace completely suspicious, as she was sitting knitting clothes and heard a sound in the upper room, and saw the two women outside the house, so she went to see what was there, and found her daughter sitting on the stairs, and the room was completely locked out with a key, so she asked Anne where this sound was coming from, so Anne pointed to the room, so she opened it very carefully and entered and then closed it behind her, and the strange thing is that she found it completely empty, then suddenly she heard whispering between two people, so she was very terrified, and began to lift the sheets from everything covering it, and she found a mirror in which she saw the reflection of the open door that she had closed, so she ran out of the room quickly and asked her daughter where they were, and her daughter replied that they had just passed by here, so she looked everywhere but did not find any trace of them.
It was a really terrifying and mysterious scene, but it carries some implications. If there were really people, why didn't she see them? Why was her daughter the only one she could see, and why were they with them in the house? And many other questions that this scene makes you ask yourself.
Grace decided to search the whole house, she was really afraid of what happened, and she attributed all of that to the presence of an unknown intruder, but she did not find anything, except for some strange pictures in one of the rooms, of people who seemed to be sleeping, and when she asked the maid if she knew anything about these pictures, the maid answered her that these pictures were of dead people and not sleeping, and that these pictures were taken of them because they believed that their souls would live through them, according to their strange beliefs at the time, so Grace's reaction was that these were superstitions, and she ordered the servant to get rid of these pictures.
Continuing the frightening events, Grace heard the piano playing that same night, and when she went to the piano room and opened its door, the playing suddenly stopped, and when she entered, the door closed behind her by itself, so she locked the piano with the key, and went out and stood trying to close the room door easily by itself, so it closed by itself forcefully and quickly, as if someone had kicked it hard, so Grace fell to the ground, and got up and tried to open the room door, but it had been locked out from the inside, so she screamed at the maid, and when she came to her, she took the room key from her, opened it, and then entered quickly to find the piano open as if she had not locked it, it was a truly frightening shock to her.
Grace decided to seek the help of a priest to bless the house, she began to believe that there was something demonic in the house, so she decided to go to him to bring him, and the maid tried to dissuade her from doing so, but she was determined, and after she went out, the maid stood with the servant, and they said something about her thinking that the house was haunted, and the servant asked her when they would show this and he was pointing to the ground, so the maid told him that everything has its time, and ordered him to hide it well, and the picture moved to what they were pointing to to find a tombstone.
At the same time, Grace walked in a thick fog, and then got lost, and did not know where she was going, then suddenly a person appeared in the fog, and when he approached, there was a strange surprise, it was her husband Charles who had returned from the war, so she threw herself into his arms, then they returned home together.
The scene of the father meeting his two children was very beautiful, full of longing for them and for him, and while Grace and the maid were preparing food for him, he entered his room and lay down on his bed, absent-minded.
The two children have lunch with their mother without their father, who for some unknown reason stays in his room, and Grace continues to stubbornly refuse to have anyone with them in the house, despite her admission of this and her feeling that they are actually there.
The maid confesses to the little girl Anne that she saw the same thing the little girl saw, and tells her that soon there will be big surprises and changes, which makes the little girl surprised and wonder, and it appears from it that the three servants know the truth of the matter, but they are waiting for the mother to be convinced and realize this mysterious truth.
The events continue in a terrifying escalation, as her daughter wears a wedding dress, and leaves the room, and when she returns, she finds her daughter holding a toy in one hand, but the terrifying thing is that this hand does not belong to her daughter, but to an old woman, and when she turns to see her face, she finds the face of an old woman with two scary eyes, so she attacks her and screams at her asking where her daughter is, and the other responds to her in her daughter's voice, then she takes off the upper part of the dress, to be surprised by her daughter's face in front of her, which puts her in a state of terrible shock, then the maid enters to the sound of their screams, to find the little girl crying and saying about her that she will not stop until she kills them, then she leaves with the maid outside the room.
It really looked like Grace was going crazy, her eyes were certainly not deceiving her, but she still didn't realize what was happening. Then she went into Charles' room, who asked her what had happened that day. She replied that she didn't know what had happened to him, and that the servants had left the house knowing that she couldn't leave. Then the scene moved to the children, and Nicholas asked Anne what had happened. She replied that their mother had gone crazy, just as had happened that day. Then the scene moved back to the couple, and Grace told Charles that he should forgive her. He told her that the children were the ones who should do that. She replied that they knew she loved them, and that she would never hurt them. Then she asked him if he was angry with her, and he told her that he had come back to say goodbye to them, and that he was leaving again. She asked him where, and he told her that he was going back to the front. She replied that the war was over, and he told her that it wasn't over yet. She began to blame him for going to this war that they had nothing to do with, and that the others had not They go to this war, he replies that the others surrendered to their fate, she shouts at him that everyone surrendered. And that the island was completely occupied, so what did he expect? And that he should have stayed with his family and his wife who loved him, and that this was enough for her despite her being in that prison, but he was not satisfied with her and this is one of the reasons for his departure, which made him cry in pain and regret, and he tried to hug her and kiss her, then they went to sleep.
When Grace woke up, Charles had left, and the terrifying events continued. Someone had pulled the curtains off all the windows in the house, which prompted Grace to try to protect her children from the light and ask the servants about the curtains. The maid Mills' response was strange. She asked her why she thought the light would kill them, so Grace called her crazy because she had told her the reason in advance. The maid Mills responded even stranger, saying that they might have recovered, and that she would not know about their recovery if she did not let daylight touch them. Grace accused her and the other two servants of trying to control the house since the beginning of their employment, and ordered her to give her the keys and leave immediately, so she and those with her did that.
After Grace dismissed the servants, she began searching for curtains all over the house, while they decided to uncover the tombstones in the garden of the house. Then night fell and the two children were sitting waiting for their mother. Nicholas wondered about the reason for her absence, so Anne answered him that their mother had gone crazy, so he called her a liar. Then the little girl got up and opened the window and climbed down, telling her brother that she was going to look for their father. Her brother followed her, afraid, and they walked in the garden of the house until they found the tombstones. Anne read the names written on them, to be surprised that they were the names of the servants. She was immediately frightened and turned to her brother, to see the servants heading towards them. She shouted at her brother to run from them because they were dead, and now they were ghosts. The child was terrified and they ran together towards the house.
At the same time, their mother Grace was still searching for the curtains in vain, but she found a picture and when she saw the faces of the dead people in it, she was immediately terrified because they were the faces of the three servants, then she heard their screams from outside the house, so she went outside immediately and called them, and she found them running towards the house and the three servants behind them following them in a strange calm.
Grace tried to threaten them to stay away, and actually fired several shots from a gun in her hand, but nothing happened to them, so the maid Mills told her that tuberculosis had actually killed them a long time ago, and this statement was really shocking and strangely direct, which made Grace retreat into the house and close it from the inside, to find the three servants standing at the door, and the maid Mills asking her to open the door.
She was in a real state of terror, and ordered her children to go upstairs and hide, while the maid Mills talked to Grace, and told her that she was trying to make her understand the new situation, so Grace asked her what situation she was talking about, and the maid Mills answered her that they must all live in peace, dead and alive, so Grace shouted at her if you are dead then leave us alone, and the maid Mills answered her that if they did that, the intruders would not and that they would definitely find them.
While the two children were hiding in the closet, they heard a voice asking them to join them. Suddenly, an old lady with scary eyes opened the closet. The two children screamed in terror. It was the same lady and eyes that Grace had seen in her daughter's place, wearing a wedding dress. Grace heard their screams and froze in terror. Maid Mills told her that the intruders had found them, and that she should go and talk to them.
It was a really scary situation for Grace, downstairs were the ghosts of the dead, and upstairs were the invisible intruders, what could she do in a situation like this, but she pulled herself together and went upstairs trembling, and opened the door to find a group of people sitting at a table, and the lady with the scary eyes talking to them, and asking them to tell them what their mother did to them, so she approached the child, and whispered a few words in her ear, and the lady repeated her words that what their mother did was something related to a pillow, so the lady said, so your mother killed you, so Grace gasped and the two children screamed that she did not kill you, so the lady continued and said to them since they are dead why are they staying in the house, the two children repeated their screams denying that and Grace joined them in screaming, she was in a terrible hysteria and tears were streaming from her eyes, then she tried to turn the table over and took She threw the paper she had on her in the air, and then suddenly everything went quiet.
The end of the others
The intruders had finally revealed the truth, and now Grace knew what was happening, and from the intruders' perspective, they saw that continuing in the house was not possible, with this terrifying situation of the dead communicating with them, and their son seeing them, so they decided to leave the place permanently.
From Grace and her children's perspective, the shock was really terrible, because she and her children were living a normal life, there was no evidence that they were dead, not only that, but Grace's discovery that she was the one who killed her children, and then killed herself was extremely painful, and she did not realize what happened until after it happened, but their continued presence in the house and the laughter of her children, is what made her imagine that they were still alive, and that the matter was nothing more than a dream from which she woke up, but it was the truth that she never wanted to admit.
The scene that brought Grace together with her two children, and her confession of what she did was very important, as she knew what happened but she kept it in a closed closet in her mind, and preferred to live a beautiful illusion with her two children, and the matter was completely isolated and vanished inside her, the hope that her children would remain alive broke anything that contradicted that, and Nicole Kidman performed this scene with perfection and magnificence, it made us feel sorry for what actually happened, and made us wonder about the secret of her killing her children without getting a decisive response about it.
The film presented us with beautiful family feelings, and showed us the depth of the bonds between parents and children, which may sometimes lead to murder, as the mother or father will certainly not kill their children in vain, they may kill them to protect them from torment or deadly pain, and this is something that many may disagree about.
The lighting, then the photography, then the performance are very impressive in this movie. Despite the dim lighting, the photography focused well on the faces, to highlight their emotions accurately and simply, which helped the performance to be distinguished and appear more than wonderful, especially from Grace (Nicole Kidman).
The horror that the movie presented to us is the horror of the unknown, and the horror of realizing the truth that your mind rejects, and this is much stronger than traditional horror.
The little girl's question about the norms at the end of the movie caught my attention. Was the mother throwing from your point of view?
In short, I can say that it is an enjoyable, mysterious, exciting movie. You may think that it takes you to a place you know well, then you are surprised that it slaps you hard to see your real place.
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