Something you want to see more than once

Rating: Null/10 (6 November 2003)

I've seen this movie several times and I still think it's quite brilliant. The funny thing whit this one is that when you see this movie for a second or third time you look at it in a different way. When I saw it for the first time in the cinema a few years ago I thought it was quite scary. Not because of big special effects,(because there are none) but because of the pressing atmosphere. I was also completely amazed by the ending of the movie. Something I really didn't see coming, but which rather made sense to me. It explained really everything what happened in the movie. So when I walked out of the cinema I had this instant feeling of wanting to see it again, which I did, on tape about a year later. Natural I now knew the ending, but I still enjoyed watching it, because of the great story. The third time around was a few weeks ago, when I saw it on TV, and I'm almost ashamed to admit that I really cried my eyes out this time. It then hit me that this movie isn't a thriller or Horror movie at all. It's really a very dramatic story about a little boy who learns to deal whit his problems and a psychiatrist who learns about the truth in his "live". And that they only could move on by helping each other. It's a really heartbreaking movie, not at least because of the great acting. I thought that Haley Joel Osment was really brilliant. He is so convincing. He really looked traumatised and scared all the time. I totally believed him. I'm not a big fan of Bruce Willis, but this time around I was quite suprised by his acting. He quite moved me. And also, last but not least, there goes a lot of credit to M. Night Shyamalan. The way he tells this story is perfect. It's slow for a Hollywood movie, but the story is so beautiful and smart, that I wasn't bored for a single moment.