Film review of "The Others"

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Danielle Brown                                         August 31, 2002

Mrs. Crompton

Film review of “The Others”

         “The Others” starring Nicole Kidman, as Grace, the Catholic mistress/mother, is said to be a scary ghost film.  It’s also a film about denial. The certificate is a fifteen. The film takes place on the island of Jersey, in the English Channel, shortly after the Second World War ended.

Have you ever been left in a house totally alone and continually hearing sounds, like creeks of doors, and smashing of plates and glasses and not knowing where they're coming from?  Well this is what this female character experienced.

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As she desperately and determinedly tries to search for the source of the mysterious sounds that keep occurring in empty rooms, she can never seem to find it. To make matters worse she has lost her husband she had been waiting for to return from the war - a conflict for which he volunteered. This abandonment is the source of much unstated grief and reproach and is now left behind with her two children and the house!  

Grace is a nervous, contrary and short-tempered character. Nicholas is cowering, placid, demanding on his mama's attentions and affections; Anne is clever, ...

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