Among the better movies that Shyamalan directed

Rating: Null/10 (31 October 2014)

Bruce Willis is Dr Malcolm Crowe, a decorated psychologist and happily married man living and practicing in Philadelphia. Suddenly one night an armed intruder enters his house and shoots him in front of his wife. Crowe appears to be badly injured but lucid enough to realize that the shooter (a young adult man) used to be his patient years ago when he was a child.
The scene terminates and we see again Crowe a few months (or a year) later providing counseling to an 8 year-old boy (Cole Sear) who lives with his mother. The movie is centered on the interaction between the psychologist and the child. Crowe also is shown to speak to his wife throughout the film but she appears oddly aloof, something that suggests marital problems or at least some detachment of the couple.
Anyway, Crowe tries to help the troubled kid, and to understand the cause of his problems and heal them. Curiously most of their meetings do not take place at the doctor's office; it is obvious that Crowe makes larger than usual effort to help the youngster and visits him also at home and at school. Soon we start to wonder about the source of the kid's anxiety and fears and how these are related to Willis' character. The movie answers these questions.
My rating is 9/10 for this movie. One among the 2-3 better movies by Night Shyamalan. But not the best. In fact the 'Sixth Sense' reminded me of another Shyamalan movie 'The Unbreakable' which I think is the best movie that Shyamalan ever directed. Bruce Willis has again the central role. The 'Unbreakable' and the 'Sixth Sense' have some things in common. First, the place is the same. Both movies take place in Philadelphia, which is a Greek name (of the old Byzantine city of Asia Minor) and literally means the City of Brotherly Love. I believe that Willis character (in both movies) tries to do just that: to help his fellow human being inside the community. Secondly, the theme in both movies has similarities: in both movies the central hero is haunted by some event from his past. This event drives his actions and in both movies it is revealed to us at the end.