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Starring: Nicole Kidman, Alakina Mann, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan, Elaine Cassidy, James Bentley

Directed By: Alejandro Amenábar

Darkness is where this woman wanted to reside. She closes the blinds so that her children don’t get exposed to the sunlight that can have an adverse effect on them. Grace Stewart is the lady played by Nicole Kidman who is just been bothered by three people who would like to be of some service to her. But the film doesn’t really reveal much about these three people.

Grace goes about her chores, like closing the doors behind her, making sure the curtains are all closed and no light enters the place. But things begin to turn for the worse with the arrival of the three visitors. The children are worried about how their mother is handing all this.

But Grace is not a woman who is living in this place for no reason. She is waiting on for someone. It is her husband Charles who seems to be a missing soldier. Charles seems to have changed a lot through the war. There is a certain distance, which has been bridged between him and the family. But the film begins to get into its psychological overdrive with images, which begin to play tricks on you. The film doesn’t really want us to settle in with some muted confessions that really make us wonder, what has really happened here in this house.

It is in the darkness that much of the story lies. When the light begins to slowly simmer into the rooms on the account of the servants it is then, that the story begins to get a second wind. Before this where we are left, with incidents that are sure to get you jumping in your seats. The director uses the whole house and makes it a character that is sure to wreck the lives of the residents. The house itself is the giveaway of the whole plot. This will surely not make sense to those who even read this.

Considering all that is being said about the film, what really caught my attention is probably what you want to know. It is the ending of the movie and revelations, that come out that push this movie above its genre and come across as something more heart wrenching. We are not really prepared for what the end is, but it is sure to leave us with questions of what is the next step for horror films.

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