Willis, Osment..a movie worth seeing!!

Rating: Null/10 (11 August 1999)

Well, it's about time a movie comes out that has more depth than the sunken Titanic. I like the direction Shyamalan (Director) takes us with this film. It is quite inventive and the subtleties are quite interesting.
Bruce Willis does an excellent job in this film and Haley Joel Osment is fantastic!!..keep your eyes peeled on this boy for future performances, he is sure to be a bigger star than he is now.
(WARNING:specific movie details below, you may not want to read further) [but no real plot spoilers - ed]
The plot starts slow at first but then picks up to maintain a good steady pace. Some notable things that I found most interesting was the usage of the colour red. I realize white is to life as black is to death but the director utilized the use of red quite a bit in this flick. Is this to symbolize blood? Horror? or a warped sence of dark seduction? An example of this is when the boy steals the red statue out of the church. There are other ones, why take the red one. Also the red door handle going down to the cellar and the red fort the boy builds in his room. What about the redness of the lips? in one scene, the boy looks like he just finished a huge class of red Kool-Aid, so much that it looks like he has a red mustache, take a look! One last example, although there are many others to mention, is the point where Willis is sitting on the couch and Haley Joel Osment is behind the couch playing with some toys and leaves a red toy truck on the top of the couch, the next scene shows it brown. And yes, for some of you scratching your head, I was sober and not medicated at the time. Is Shyamalan playing with us?..if so, I like it. Go see the film...it is well worth the greenbacks.
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