Analysis Of Lights Out

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To some people it has happened, you see something standing in your dark room and when you turn on the lights, the figure is gone. Lights Out does the job of showing the audience the fear of the monster that looks at you or is with you in the darkness. The monster in this film would make the audience think back to their childhood and remember the fear of being in the dark alone because they would feel someone looking at them. This film gives the rule for the monster, you will be safe when you’re in the light, but be very careful when the lights go out and it gets dark. The whole idea of the monster is introduced at the beginning of the film when a woman is walking through a factory and she thinks she saw a figure in the dark when the lights went out. Like anyone else, she thought she was hallucinating and kept on going with her work. A few minutes later, her boss is killed by the figure which turned out to be the monster. Lights Out begins with a great hook because it gets right to the point of the monster killing people when it is dark and there is no light. This might make some people uncomfortable, knowing that there is something in the dark that is going to kill you. Being out in the woods, a place where it is extremely dark during …show more content…

Not everyone is happily ever after like in most movies. At the end of Lights Out, when Sophie sees that her kids are at risk with Diana, she decides to kill herself to protect her children. If Sophie died, Diana would die with her and she took her life in order to save the ones she loved. In many movies, mostly everyone survives and only the “bad person” dies but not in this case. Sophie’s death was something very unexpected and it was something that was shocking because again, it does not happen most of the time. Lights Out plays the role of making the audience think twice about being alone when the lights go out or even being alone in the

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