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8. The Others

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The Others follows Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman,) a mother of two who lives in an isolated country house. Grace keeps her home in perpetual darkness to accommodate her children, Anne and Nicholas, who suffer from severe photosensitivity. 

When she notices the curtains around her home have been removed, Grace believes someone is trying to harm her children. After several supernatural incidents occur, Grace is convinced her house is haunted.

Though Grace's assertion is proven correct, it's not in the way she presumes. In the third act, Grace discovers she and her children are the "others" and have been unintentionally haunting the real residents of the house. Grace remembers how she lost her mind when her husband died in the war, compelling her to smother her children before taking her own life.

When Grace returned as a ghost, she convinced herself the murder-suicide she performed was nothing more than a bad dream. Upon learning this, the children are relieved to see they are no longer vulnerable to light. Nevertheless, it's horrifying how they've been reborn as wandering spirits that are unable to move on because of their mother's horrific actions.

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