The Others (2001)
Figures
Locations
- The film's post-World War II (1945) setting on the Channel Islands
Form & technique
- The film's sound design (unseen sources of sound like footsteps, piano playing, crying) → The Unseen Voice
- The narrative structure leading to the final twist revelation
- The final séance scene where the protagonists realize they are the ghosts
Tropes
- The isolated mansion and its interiors
- Grace Stewart's psychological breakdown and climactic act of violence → The Abject Borderline
- The persistent, thick fog that surrounds the mansion → The Cinematic Threshold
- Grace's strict Catholic catechism lessons for her children → The Soft Arm of the Law
- The film's production context as a Spanish-led, English-language film
- The film's thematic and structural relationship to Henry James's novella "The Turn of the Screw"
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