How Does Trojandro Amenabar Create Suspense In The Others

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Real or Not? Alejandro Amenabar’s thrilling movie The Others, is a haunted mystery, it would be similar to the movie Shutter Island, the shock of the waiting game. The evidence of a Christian mother protecting her children. The suspense of fifty doors that will not open or lock, rippling staircases, graves of ghosts, blood clotting specters with a little subtle romance. But the question is would you say is “This haunting enough for you! Something…Wicked!” It’s intriguing to watch the twist and turns in this chilling story, especially the phenomenal cast as they played astonishing parts and what is real or not.

The darkened, the quiet, the breezy and foggy isolated mansion that took place on the Jersey Channels Island in England around 1946
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The movie is a question of how religion gives meaning to death and the concept of hereafter. Alejandro picked the setting of the old mansion near the coast shores of England for reason to give the mystery of novels back in the 40’s and 50’s. He wanted to connect to the audience with the music, the realistic of the characters going back into a scene from the World War times. The lovely (Nicole Kidman) as Grace played a stellar performance as overbearing paranoid and frantic mother that is trying to protect her two children from the terrible photosensitive skin disease, the saucy Anne (Alakina Mann) and the shivery Nicholas (James Bentley) were absolutely astronomical.

Certainly, there is no shortage of disagreement with the award winning cinematography and the psychological thrill that exposes throughout this timely history. The intense and dramatic sounds of the music going into each scene can really catch your suspense. The sounds of when Grace is in frantic of searching every room when Anne draws a picture of the people that are in the house and she points out the one she calls a witch. The sound of instruments like the horns, and violins when something is going into a devastation of fright. The music goes up in volume when they are in the moment of

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