It only works the first time!

Rating: 9/10 (28 December 2014)

This is my recollection of seeing this movie, and I saw it twice.
My girlfriend had decided to study in Spain for Spring Semester 2000, and I didn't like that at all! We decided, however, to go see The Sixth Sense in January, shortly before her leave. It fascinated me by its fresh approach to horror, quite different from the stuff I'd seen before.
Unfortunately, the strain of not being together for half a year, save for my visiting her for a month, resulted in breaking up.
In July I decided to try various devices in order to cure my heart, and one of them was going to the pictures alone to see The Sixth Sense again that was still running. I thought I'd be scared happy, or something...
To my chagrin, the scary scenes didn't scare me at all, as I could anticipate them. On the other hand, I realized that underneath the horror layer was a layer of sadness, of loosing someone dear to you etc. (Remember the scene where Willis tries to grasp the check, and his wife snaps it up and says: "Happy Anniversary!") This, and all the typical couples in love who surrounded me in the dark of the theater, forced me to make a holy wow never to go to cinema once more without female company!