The Sixth Sense

Rating: Null/10 (6 February 2011)

The Sixth Sense tells the story of a unique boy name Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) who carries with him a very dark secret. A child psychologist by the name of Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) meets with Cole and Malcolm soon realizes that Cole has the same characteristic traits as Vincent Gray (Donnie Wahlberg) a previous patient of Malcolm's who shot him while he was retuning from a night out with his wife Anna (Olivia Williams). Learning from his past experiences with Vincent, Malcolm made a promise to himself to not make the same mistakes with Cole. It took some time for Cole to trust Malcolm, and when we finally did he shared his deepest darkest secret. He can see dead peoples.
The Sixth Sense displays some very strong themes. The first being "Afterlife," which is a topic everyone have difference of opinions on, but in the movie you will see ghost appearing to Cole, the reasoning behind ghost as many of us believe is having unfinished business, and the only way to move on is for the business to be completed. At first Cole was terrified of the ghosts, not understanding what they wanted from him, but Cole gained "Courage" which is another theme in the movie, he decided one night to speak with one and finds out what it wanted and began to help.
The lightening of the film is very dull and dim, and color of The Sixth Sense is very dim, no actual coloring used in the movie except for the church scenes, you can see a few hints of red on the Jesus icon as well as the candles, and what's also interesting is majority of the movie is taking place at night, to reinforce that gloomy feel.
"I see dead people. They don't know they're dead. They don't see each other. They only see what they want to see." (Mercer, 1999). Is a pretty powerful statement, and just going off that statement alone without watching the movie, how do I know I'm not dead? I know it's a crazy question, but think about it.
According to the movie your "Afterlife" is what you make it, here you see Malcolm throughout the entire movie believing he's still married to Anna, doing his same daily routine activities, just living "life" and it took a boy to tell him that hey man, your dead. But my only question is, if ghost exist due to unfinished business, what was Malcolm's unfinished business?