The Others

The Others – The New Director’s version 1. The tittle The tittle “The Others” refers to a family; Grace (mother), Anne and Nicholas (children); that lives in a country house at Jersey. 2. The Setting To enhance a horror atmpsphere, Almenábar, use elements like the big house, the garden, the forest, the fog and the music ( a very important element). In concret, I wouldn’t add any more element/s because it’s a psychological film, so, we don’t need blood and kill schenes like from a typical horror film. 3. The Time The film was set in 2001 at Spain, France and United States. But the film took place after the second World War. The director show it from the actor dresses and also Grace sayed some sentences from the second World War. 4. The Cast Grace: She feel sad because she have lost here husband (he was at he front of the second World War). But his children give her strenght. She educate her children strict but with a lot of love. The children accept Grace’s conditions. She isn’t mad but she’s strict. She have a special personality, for her, al the thing must be perfect. Anne and Nicholas: The children have a serious light allergy. The consequence ist that the kids have a very white skin. They must live always in the darkness (but they can live with candle light). In the house are plenty of windows, so, all the windows must be closed with large courtains. Mrs Mills, Mr Tutle and Lydia: Mrs Mills is an anging nanny, Mr Tutle is an elderly gardener and Lydia is an young mude servant. Alejandro Amenábar: The cabeza (1991), Himenóptero (1992), Luna (1995), Tesis (1996), Virtual Nightmare-Open your eyes (1997) and Mar Adentro (2004). The film won: eight Goyas, the Kansas City Film Critics as best actress (Nicole Kidman) and also has won three times the Saturn Award.

5. FINAL QUESTION The fim “The Others” can be considered a representive of Gothic fiction because ghotic fiction is an genre that combines elements of horror and romance: horror are the ghosts (the housekeepers and the family) and romance are a story that could be “real”.