Alejandro Amenaval is Spain's most watched new director. In 1995, he won seven Goya Awards (Spain's Golden Image Award) with his film debut "Death Papers". Later, he won the Golden Cherry Blossom Award at the Tokyo Film Festival with " Open Your Eyes ", which made a sensation in the international film scene.
thus attracted the attention of Tom Cruise and his wife, Atang Ge bought the film's reshooting rights (renamed: "Vanilla Sky"), and invited the director Alejandro and the heroine Pei by the way. Nélope Cruz went to Hollywood to develop, so he planted the opportunity for Atango and Penelope to make sparks.
After the divorce of Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise, Amannaba wrote and directed "Cry on the Island", which pushed Nicole Kidman to the peak of his acting career.
The story of "Small Cry" took place in the castle in Jersey, England, in the latter part of World War II. A woman named Grace (Nicole Kidman), with two children, took refuge in an old Victorian mansion on the island, waiting for her husband to return from the battlefield in France.
Grace employs three servants to help her. Because her child suffers from a strange disease that is sensitive to the sun, the family has always lived in isolation. The three weird servants kept talking secretly next to each other, and Grace began to wonder if the three came to work with her for any purpose...
Almost the whole film was going on in the mansion. They follow a mysterious custom: "Don't open the door casually, unless you are sure that the previous door is closed."
Because the child can't get the sun or the whole body will fester, so most of the time in the house is to draw the curtains. Yes, the dim light and occasional whispering gasps, the huge house reveals an almost suffocating sense of oppression.
Although she lives in isolation, Grace gradually feels that this house is not just the family living in this house, and even the children claim that they have other companions who play together...
husband who has been away for many years Finally home. But the psychological trauma caused by the war prevented him from going back to the past life and facing his family, so he only stayed for one night and left again...
When you see this passage, you can almost be sure, It should be the soul of the husband who came back, and the real him has died in battle.
Her husband’s return and departure made Grace’s life more difficult. Various conditions appeared more frequently in the house. She obviously pulled down the curtains, but when she turned around, the curtains were opened again; what was even more terrifying was her She unexpectedly found a photo of her three servants in the attic, a photo of the customary people on this island after they died. What she was afraid of finally came true...
Seeing here, I thought the truth had come to light. Just when Grace was showing off to the three servants, she realized that she and her two children had died long ago, waiting for the return of her husband who could not be warned, and the hard work of bringing her two children. In order to end all the pain, she used The pillow suffocates his child and commits suicide.
The real owner (living person) is the "other people" who keep making noises in the house. The owner's children also said that there are other children in the house. For this reason, they also invited psychics to communicate... …
In the end, it was the fact that the owner could not bear this kind of spirituality and decided to move out. The ending of a supernatural movie like
is usually very surprising, you won’t even find out until the last minute, oh. So that's it...
movieThe original name: "The Others", which means "third party, intruder". The content seems to tell the story of Grace's family of three hiding in a British castle to escape the war and waiting for her husband to return safely from the battlefield. However, when three servants are stationed and the plot is slowly uncocooned, many secrets are revealed.
was originally thought to be the ghost of the intruder. At the end of the film, he becomes a living person who communicates with the underworld through psychics; and the Grace family, together with the three servants (that is, the characters originally surviving in the movie), are all dead souls. .
People and ghosts, who is the intruder? This result undoubtedly subverts the role of the "intruder" that we are used to thinking, and adds a touch of dialectical interest between the reverse and the sharp turn of the plot of the film. The fun of
, in addition to providing the fixed elements of general supernatural thriller movies, such as: dark light and shadow effects, misty atmosphere, castles, stairs, storage rooms and other cramped and urgent spaces, and gardens, woods and other deserted and blurred Beyond the visual effect; its depth comes from the insight of human fear and the subversion of Christianity.
As at the beginning of the movie, Grace read the Bible verses from Genesis to the two children, constantly strengthening the redemptive nature of religious beliefs and the difference between heaven and hell. However, the information revealed through the plot is: living people and ghosts actually coexist in the same time and space; and the inextricable regret and guilt are the purgatory of Grace's soul.
The whole movie can be watched at two levels. One is to see how Grace’s hidden secret family gradually revealed the truth due to the intrusion of ghosts, and achieved reconciliation (mother Grace and her daughter) and spiritual redemption (Grace) ).
In addition, it broadens the field of vision to see the values and cosmology that are marked by the world of living and after death when people, ghosts, yin and yang meet in time and space. Such a creative reversal result, logically, not only solves the long-standing problems of the ghost world; it also creates a new understanding and understanding of the Yin-Yang universe.
is worth mentioning: the outstanding acting skills of Nicole Kidman in the film. Nicole Kidman played the neurotic mother vividly in this film, and the whole scene and lighting create a weird atmosphere, which makes people almost tense and watch it. It is worth watching again. Movies watched.
