Friday, 28 November 2008

"The Others"



The others- character/narritive


A woman named Grace Stewart (Kidman) 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.


From looking and analysing the opening scene of the other i can see strait way that there is a motherly character with in the story i can tell this from the motherly voice reading the story and the beging, when it get further in to the opening we are introduced to a lady i see her as the lady of the house. Further on we have then introduced to three other character these turn out to be new staff for the house hold. This confirms my thoughts of the lady being the owner/lady of the house as she is the one that’s employing new house hold staff.
We are then introduced to a character even though there isn’t actually a actor playing the part this character is the man on the house but he is introduced through words as he went to war and nothing has been heard since. But still his character has being introduced with in the opening scene this tells me that he has a important part in the story
Finally with in the opening scene we are introduced to the two children of the house.
With in the opening there are a lot of clues toward the narrative of the film, we find out that the old staff just disappeared from the house with out no warning no note and they didn’t even collect there wages. This is very odd thing and gives us clues to the story line. Also we find out the children have a very rare disease and that there allergic to sun light and that all shutters have to be shut other wise contact with sun light can be deadly.
In conclusion to all of this i think that the being of the other gives a lot of the plot away with in the n if you listen and watch it in detail, there are also clues with in the opening telling us that the film is going to be a thriller.

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