"The Others"

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This paper examines how Alejandro Amenabar uses symbols and foreshadowing in his movie "The Others" to keep the viewer interested until the conclusion and how he uses irony to show the viewer that his or her impressions about the movie may also be wrong. It also discusses how Amenabar hints that the characters are dead throughout the movie to keep the viewer interested in the conclusions he will draw.

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"Amenabar sets up the conflict in the movie as Grace's struggle between the answers that her religion has given her that should encompass all of human experience and the realization that these answers do not ring true in all cases. When Bertha tells her the truth of the situation, that the living and the dead are in contact with one another, Grace insists that this is not so because the Bible says that "the living and the dead will only meet at the end of Eternity" and that God "would never allow such an aberration" (Amenabar). Here she spouts the Church's accepted viewpoint even in the face of evidence to the contrary. Grace also places a lot of emphasis on the rosary (long associated with the Virgin Mary) and on "the Virgin" herself (Amenabar). While one could say that the Virgin is the ideal mother, the viewer later learns that Grace is certainly no ideal mother."

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