... view that we get is when Anne and Nicholas are fighting and playing together, they seem like just a normal brother and sister play fighting. For example when they are sitting eating, Anne is teasing Nicholas about the ghosts. Here the director uses dim lighting to make us feel scared and sorry for Nicholas. She uses childish words like 'cowardy custard' to give the sense of harmlessness, yet this is when the tension starts to build in the film., because we start to sense a streak of evil throughout Anne, she starts to seem slightly unpredictable due to her strange, and dark nature. In 'The Others' the director uses these many presentational devices to mislead us. One example of this is when Grace throws the servants out of the house, for suspicions that they are plotting against her and her children. The camera shows us a very influential low angle ...

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