A Classical Sixth Sense!!

Rating: Null/10 (22 September 2002)

I must admit that the beginning and the middle of the movie were quite disappointing to me. Because in spite of all the good criticisms which I had heard of here and there before seeing the movie, in some points of the movie I felt that critics have played a trick on me or maybe there are some artistic sides in the story which I can not figure out!! And because the setting of the movie belongs to the 1940's, it was hard to imagine that it can have a modern ending. But of course I was wrong. What makes "The Others" a noticeable movie is exactly the climatic ending. In the last minute, all of your thoughts are mixed, and you should just sit there and see the credits with your mouth wide open!! Where are the others? BOO , Actually we are the others!!
And in the end you understand that this is not only a B-Movie which only depends on some adrenaline-rush scenes... It is far beyond that... It's a movie which makes you sit in the cinema for one hour and a half wondering: "SO WHAT?" but in the last ten minute, it gives you an answer which you can think about all the way back home, and even for days...
Setting and acting reminded me of 1960 classical movies. But what is obvious is that Nicole Kidman was not the one whom always a bunch of guys can sing "HIP, HIP, HOORAY!!" for during the movie. It was a "PORTRAIT OF A LADY" kind of performance for Kidman. So I guess it was a little bit boring for those Kidman fans who want the erotic Nicole Kidman of Eyes Wide Shot, with some extra hanky-panky scenes.
Generally, the conclusion is that although the movie was in the genre of horror, but it was not for fun or just spending time... It was a movie which can easily be seen for the second time for more pleasure. Quite like "The Sixth Sense", it must be so interesting to see the movie for the second time from another angle. Because when you know the end of the story, you go searching for other details.
The philosophy of Alejandro Amenabar about life and death, the living and the dead was somehow sarcastic. And also it should be mentioned that some lines of dialogues were very intelligent (like the ones about the world war and that all English folks are right in their deeds!!). Such dialogues are not common in movies of this genre.
For more sharp gossip lovers, the attractive part of the credits is Tom Cruise as one of the executive producers!! No further comment ;)
I would give the movie 7 of 10