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Symbolism In The Film The Others

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In his classic film The Others, Alejandro Amenábar questions the nature of religion, life and death, and reality in a shockingly beautiful way. He handles symbolism masterfully, using classic motifs such as light and dark and haunted houses to get his point across further. Ignorant of their death at first, the children, who were in their lifetime allergic to light, avoided it at all costs. Light, often, is used as a symbol for truth: a guiding light for those who fumble about in the darkness. This is the same case in The Others. They fought to stay in the darkness and remain ignorant, but after discovering that they were dead all along, the light becomes good to them, even beautiful, and they welcome it. This obviously represents the truth

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