The Others : An excellent movie

 


Someone suggested I watch the movie The Others and I am grateful I watched it. It is phenomenal. An excellent movie. It made a ton of money at the box office and got many awards and rightfully so. It is the only horror movie I saw where I was genuinely afraid.

Long story short Grace Stewart played by Nicole Kidman lives in house with her two children. She employs some spooky servants to work in and around the house. And for a while it seems like the house is haunted. The children see ghosts and there is some unnatural activities around the house. Tensions rise and in the end it is revealed that is Grace, her kids and the servants who are the actual ghosts and there are people living in the house who they thought were the ghosts.

For half of the film I am watching this movie almost falling asleep because nothing happens. But slowly the suspense rises and for the second half of the movie I am thoroughly engrossed in the story. At first I thought the servants were up to no good. Then I thought the kids were just being naughty. But I could not see the plot twist from a mile away.

I really need to watch more films by the writer Alejandro Amenabar who wrote The Others. How did he come up with such a story? What I can learn from The Others is that when I am writing a story, things must always be what they appear to be. Like in the films Se7en and Primal Fear sometimes it is okay to have a bleak ending where there is no hope.

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