I haven't seen such a wonderful horror film for a long time. It tests the wisdom of the audience. The story was attracted by intense suspense from beginning to end. Our thoughts are like the host family of three, imprisoned in a big house, inexplicably "what happened?" Once the answer was announced, it sounded the alarm. Unexpectedly ... I don't think anyone would have expected such an outcome. After knowing the answer, I thought about it carefully and found that the director had laid the groundwork from beginning to end, but no one would connect all the details together, and no one was so imaginative. The director completely controlled the audience's psychology and emotions with creativity, suspense and atmosphere.
The translation of Others into Cry on an Island in China, and another translation is Ghost's Sixth Sense, which I think is a failure. The translation of personal feelings into "uninvited guests" can truly reflect the connotation of this film: from the perspective of the Grace family, the three servants and the Vitos are uninvited guests; Judging from the latter two, others are uninvited guests. In fact, except our own people, others are uninvited guests, which is close to the original intention of "others" Nicole Kidman's temperament is very compatible with this movie. Nico is very Leng Yan, and with her slender figure, pale cheeks, neurotic eyes and stubborn personality, it is difficult to have a crack.
Grace has been in a very nervous state in the story, and she is a little scared. Her eyes are tense most of the time. She is my most suspicious person. She loves her children, but she is extremely hard on them. Her husband hasn't come back for many years because of the war. The three of them have lived in a closed environment for a long time, and her psychology has some variations. I suspected that she was schizophrenic from the beginning. The film hinted many times through the mirror: Every time Grace looked at herself in the mirror, her eyes were strange and she felt a little incredible. The two Grace in the mirror and outside the mirror, one is real and the other is unreal, just corresponding to her inner self. Grace killed a pair of children, she knew it, but because she refused to admit this fact, she subconsciously created an illusory "I" and played the role of a loving mother. This "I" refused to admit the fact that it happened or that he was dead. Instead, I used "God gave me a second chance" as an excuse to escape and continue my life before I died. She seems to have completely "forgotten" where she is and who she is until she is finally called.
There are many confusing details, such as "Make sure the first door is closed before opening the second door". In fact, there is nothing mysterious about this, because her child is afraid of light, and the door is closed to prevent light from coming in. Then why aren't they afraid at the end of the film? In fact, they were not afraid at the beginning of the film, but they didn't have a chance to try, because they were ghosts from the beginning and their illness was gone before they died. This logic is inferred from what the footman said to Grace: "My sister-in-law got rheumatism, but one day she died." . When he said one day, he meant death.
These three servants mean no harm. But many people will doubt what they are doing at first. The suspicion began with the letter that was not sent. The old lady's eyes kept flashing and she dodged when asked about the key place. The director also arranged a detail to disturb people's attention, that is, the old woman always forced Grace to take medicine. In fact, they originally came to tell Grace the truth (that is, they were actually dead), but because Grace was so stubborn, she didn't believe it or admit it after repeated prompts, which finally made them "unbearable". So they said, "children are easy to handle, mainly their mother, who is too stubborn." They repeatedly stressed that "it's time to reveal the truth", but in fact they just didn't have the patience to spend it, so they had to wake her up. They said outside that "people should learn to live in peace with ghosts", which scared Grace out of her wits. Grace naturally understands herself as "people" and them as "ghosts". In fact, the three servants mean "they and the Grace family are ghosts, and they want to make peace with the Vito family". Because of different positions, there is ambiguity.
When I watched it again, I found that all the warning words in the film can be understood in many ways, and it is difficult to guess their true meaning before seeing the end. It should be noted that foreign ghosts are different from domestic ghosts. Ghosts in China can't get out during the day, and they can't see their own shadows in the mirror. Foreign ghosts can. There is also a principle that what ghosts see and move is just an illusion. If it happens that what they are moving happens to be the real thing, then ghosts and people will exclaim, "There is a ghost!" . Some people think that this movie can't be explained logically, but if you watch it again, you will find that it's all because you didn't watch it carefully enough. Now let's sort out these clues from the beginning and interpret several tips and questions.
First, the whole story begins with a big house full of fog, which is the biggest hint. The fog of Grace's house is always lingering, and the furniture room is always gloomy. When the truth comes out, the Vitos will be sunny.
2. Grace's first scene is waking up screaming from her sleep. Why did she wake up? Because she had a "nightmare" in which she killed her own child and then committed suicide. She thought it was a dream, but it was all true. Just out of self-protection and unable to accept her sinful behavior, she subconsciously turned the truth into a dream, and then regarded the illusion as the truth. The process of waking up from a dream is actually the transition from birth to death. After waking up, she is no longer a "person".
Why did the servant leave overnight? Because their whole family died, the servant naturally left.
Grace said to the old and new women, "It changed everything, but I want to deal with it calmly." . What "it" implies should be the killing of children, and the calm treatment is to refuse to believe what happened and treat it as a dream.
Ann told the old lady "Mom is crazy" at dinner, and later said "Mom is crazy again, just like that day". "Crazy" means murder, and "that day" is the day of the accident.
6. Why can Ann see Victor? Because the Vito family is evoking souls, it is estimated that she was the first to recruit, so she can temporarily enter the human world to see them.
7. Why is the young maid dumb? Because she didn't believe that she was dead, she finally knew the truth and was too scared to speak again. So Grace hinted that "we had the same experience".
Is Grace's husband a person or a ghost? It's a ghost, a lonely ghost, wandering outside, unable to find the way home. Grace happened to meet him when she was out. Her husband is as pale and lifeless as they are. Another proof is that when the child knew the truth, he said, "If so, then dad died in battle?" Only when they are dead can they meet.
9. Why did the husband leave? After Ann was possessed by a psychic and then fascinated by Grace, Ann went to her father and cried. Then Grace went in and apologized. Her husband asked, "Why did you do this?" Grace first said, "I thought there was a ghost ..." Her husband corrected, "Not this, but that day." At the same time, Ann said to Nico, "Mom is crazy again." Nico asked her, "Is it like that day?" Ann nodded and asked, "Do you remember that day?" Nico seems to close his eyes in pain. "I can't remember." The hint of that day is the same as above. The husband left because he refused to forgive his wife for killing the child.
X. Several times in the film, "Don't pant like that!" This should imply that Grace's pillow is holding her breath heavily.
Finally, Grace went upstairs to meet the Vitos, and all the questions and hallucinations were solved. The truth appeared on her face, and Grace could no longer pretend to tell the truth that neither of them wanted to admit. "The mother who loved them killed two children with a pillow and then shot herself." In fact, the three of them have long understood this, but at the same time they chose to escape.
The entanglement between people and ghosts has not really ended, because there will be new people moving in. Although they shouted "This is our house", they could only be haunted.
Yes The difference is that they are "ghosts".
Add one thing:
The piano music that Grace heard in the middle of the night should have been played by a "person" who moved in later. In the plot, it was confirmed that Grace finally tore up the paper on the table crazily, but what "person" saw was that the paper was broken in the air. So people and ghosts can't see each other. When Grace repeatedly opens and closes the door, it should be the family who closes the door.
Add one thing:
The piano music that Grace heard in the middle of the night should have been played by a "person" who moved in later. In the plot, it was confirmed that Grace finally tore up the paper on the table crazily, but what "person" saw was that the paper was broken in the air. So people and ghosts can't see each other. When Grace repeatedly opens and closes the door, it should be the family who closes the door.
Add one thing:
About why Grace killed her children, it should have something to do with the Nazis. Grace said to her husband, "We all surrendered and the whole island fell. What can we do? " Contact her again and force the child to read passages from the Bible. With regard to surrender and lying, it is not difficult to understand why she killed the child. The Nazis came and the island fell. Maybe they were about to break into their manor. She thought in her heart that she should not give in to evil, so she killed her child and committed suicide. Because the servants don't love this house and don't like Grace's "guarding this prison" (like the Mills family), they disappeared overnight, maybe they were killed by the Nazis, maybe they surrendered to the Nazis and survived. Add a little
The master (soldier) is not dead;
1) He dressed up as a battlefield veteran, suggesting that he had withdrawn from the line of fire after being seriously injured. If KIA, it should be the last dress that died in battle;
2) He said that he had been looking for his way home, suggesting that he was in a state of dying, seriously injured and dying, so the soul could go home.
3) He said that he had been bleeding, which proved that he was not completely dead, but was at a critical juncture of life and death struggle.
4) When he saw Niko, he was shocked and had no expression of joy, suggesting that he understood that his wife was already in the underworld.
5) He saw the unhappy and heartbroken faces of the children and knew that they were dead.
6) He has been lying in bed since he came home, hinting at his injury again.
7) A few days later, he finally crossed the gate of hell and was saved. So he said he would go back to the front.
8) Finally, he finished the final ML with Niko at the last moment when his soul was still in the underworld.