Saturday, November 24, 2007

The OtherS.

We saw a film in class: THE OTHERS

Overview


Directed by: Alejandro Amenábar
Produced by: Fernando Bovaira, José Luis Cuerda, StudioCanal
Written by: Alejandro Amenábar
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Alakina Mann, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnuala Flanagan, Elaine Cassidy, James Bentley.
Distributed by: Dimension Films
Release date: 2 August 2001
Running time: 104 minutes

Plot of the filM~

One woman and 2 children live in a very big house. Three new servants arrive at the house because the other servants disappeared. The woman shows the house to the servants. There’s one very important rule: you have to lock the previous door before opening the next. It’s also important to close the curtains before the children, Anne and Nicolas, enter the room because they are allergic to the light.
Anne tells to her mother that she sees other people, her mother punish her because she thinks Anne tells lies and scares Nicolas.
When the mother starts to hear strange noises, she believes Anne and she takes off the punishment.
When Anne is wearing the dress for her first communion her mother sees a old woman in her. She tries to kill the woman until she realizes it’s Anne. After this, Anne says her mother has gone mad. Grace, the mother, goes to the forest and she founds her husband. When Charles is in the house, he’s very strange and he’s sick. But one morning he left the house, he disappears.
When the children wake up, Anne starts screaming because someone has stolen the curtains. Grace brings the children to a safe place and she starts to look for the curtains. She doesn’t find them.
The children go out of the house at the night, they find some old graves were they see names of the servants. When the servants come, Anne says to Nicolas that they are ghosts. Then the mum comes outside and sees what is happening, they all hide inside the house. The servants explain to the mother that all three have to make contact with the ghosts. When the mother goes upstairs she screams to the visitors. Then the visitors decided to leave the hose. The truth is that the ghosts are Grace, Anne and Nicolas, not the visitors. Because Grace went mad and with a pillow she killed Anne and Nicolas and then she shot herself. The servants explain that they will have to life with them the rest of the time, and that they all will learn to life with the visitors.