The Others 2001 (Maariyah)

The Others. (Directed by Alejandro Amenábar. With Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, and Christopher Eccleston)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypPXbU0fM0A&feature=channel

A woman named Grace retires with her two children to a mansion on Jersey, towards the end of the Second World War, where she's waiting for her husband to come back from battle. The children have a disease which means they cannot be touched by direct sunlight without being hurt in some way. They will live alone there with oppressive, strange and almost religious rules, until she needs to hire a group of servants for them. Their arrival will accidentally begin to break the rules with unexpected consequences.

In this scene we see the servants who have just been exposed, as the family and the audience find out they are dead. Grace. As Mrs. Bertha Mills begins talking to Grace she begins to expose the truth about the, as the conversation continues Grace hears a scream from above of one of her children. She obtains the courage to start walking up stairs towards her children; she shakily recites the Lord’s Prayer which shows the audience her religious views. She slowly approaches the door as she does not want to be heard and is also trying to hear the conversation between her children and the others in the room. When she gets into the room she sees the medium who looks possessed sitting at a table with four other people. The medium is questioning Anne (Graces’ Daughter). Anne then tells the medium how her mother killed her but when the medium repeats it more tension is created as ghostly music begins to play and Anne’s face portrays shock and denial. Grace, Anne and Nicholas look shocked as they do not know what to believe. the characters are in denial about there death as the meduim questions why they remain in the house. All three characters (Grace, Anne and Nicholas) begin repeated "we are not dead" the emphasis of three voices overlapping eachother shows the realistic element of the scene. upon hearing the news Grace becomes almost possesed and beging shaking the table and ripping up papers, this shows her unstable state of mind. after the communication has ended the medium begings talking to the current tenants whom we are told very little about they are portrayed as middle class parents.