The Sixth Sense (ONLY IF YOU'VE SEEN IT!!!!!!)

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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First off, I want to say that it was a great movie and probably the only one that I’ve been tempted to go and see again right away (although I haven’t).

Now I have some questions, I imagine more questions and answers will pop up as this thread continues.

  1. Why didn’t the room get cold when the boy was talking to the doctor?

  2. Why was the boy (Cole) wearing his fathers glasses at the beginning? I highly doubt that it was “for no reason.” Also he never wore them at any other time.

  3. There was another one but I can’t remember it right now.

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MPSIMS incoming!

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I thought that the room got cold only when the dead were angry. As for the glasses, I have no idea. But in the beginning, did the boy run because B. Willis was dead? And if so, then how did Willis get his case? It was on paper. Was this Willis’ case before he got shot?

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The boy was wearinng glasses to disguise himself, to fool the ghosts. I guess he stopped because it wasn’t working.

Doc was probably going to work because he didn’t know he was dead. I bet his replacement got the case, and the file just disappeared off the desk one day.

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One of the things that kidna clears everything up (kinda think it might have partially been a cop out to make it easier on the writers) was that the dead people “only see what they want to see.” But it was still a great movie that I can’t wait to see again. Anybody know of any websites that will help with these kinda questions?

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If you have Sixth Sense questions, I highly suggest you check out the rec.arts.movies.current-films newsgroup, and/or do a Deja(news) search for “sixth sense”. There have been numerous threads on this movie, answering in great detail all the questions you guys have asked, and many other questions I never would’ve thought of :slight_smile:

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There are alot of moments in the story that seem insignificant but after viewing the end all tie together. For example, when the Doc and Cole’s mom are “talking” before the boy steps into the room. It wasn’t Bruce Willis who put on those wedding tapes, wishing for happier times in his broken marriage, but his wife who was looking back to the time when the guy was still alive. When he screams at the guy who was fooling around with his wife but who only drives away, apparently ignoring him. Of course, we realize the man wasn’t doing anything wrong, since the woman was a widow and not married.

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I have to see it again - I missed a lot! I don’t recall the glasses or rooms getting cold. There was another thread about this movie and someone mentioned Cole in the dumbwaiter with a dead person at the birthday party. I remember the birthday party and the two bullies pushing Cole into what I thought was a closet -don’t recall a body. But all-in-all I enjoyed it immensely.

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Good movie! There were a few things I missed, too.

So, if it only gets cold when the dead are angry, why was it cold when the doctor was finally saying goodbye to his wife?

All the other dead people running around looked pretty nasty- and had signs of how they died on them- how come the doctor didn’t have any mark on him until the end?

Did the kid know the doctor was dead? I never quite figured that part out.

How lame was it when the doctor was listening to the old tapes and heard the dead guy?

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Don’t get me wrong…I still think it was a very good movie - slowly paced, well shot, smartly written - but as for the “surprise twist” ending I didn’t think it was surprising at all. I figured it out about 1/3 of the way through. I’m not saying I’m super smart, or anything, it was just obvious to me that the only person Malcom interacted with was the boy - ergo, he died from the gunshot wound.

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Anyway, I forgot to ask: did anybody else out there figure it out before it was fully revealed?

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Oh, yeah…one more thing:

IIRC, the movie takes place in the fall and at one point Cole & Malcolm are walking down the street when a brightly uniformed little league team walks in front of them.

My question is: was this a living team still in their uniforms for the play-offs or were they a team that had been killed in a bus accident or something?

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I didn’t figure out Willis was dead; so I was pleasantly surprised. One thing I didn’t understand. I assumed that in order to meet the boy in those sessions, Willis must’ve met his mother. It would seem abnormal to meet a kid without meeting first his parents or some other authority figure… That may have been a bit far-fetched. But the neat idea was that Willis helped the kid but that the kid helped him too…
I really enjoyed the movie. In its genre, one of the better ones.

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I’ve seen it twice, and I used to read the posts in Yahoo’s User Reviews board until I got tired of the trolls that live there.

My theory on the whole temperature thing was that ghosts are made of energy, held together through will power…when strong emotion is felt (Cole can be forgiven for only assuming anger would do it), then the ghost draws heat energy from the surrounding area, dropping the temp.

Did Cole know about Malcome being dead? I don’t really know if he did at the beginning, but I think he almost certainly did by the end.

Oh, and some posts in Yahoo made the point about the proliferance(sp?) about the color red as a visual clue of the supernatural; The red ballon, the red doorknob to the basement, the red door to the church, the outer walls of the school, Cole’s tent, and the dress Malcome’s wife was wearing at the resturant. She was also wearing a red nightshirt when she was in bed asleep and Malcome sat on the foot of the bed and watched her

A question I REALLY wanna know is…was the doorknob to the basement red when Malcome’s wife used it in the beginning of the movie? I have a foggy recollection that it was clear, but I don’t really wanna spend more cash just to find out. Can anybody help me on this one?

Thanks for reading this. :slight_smile:

You say “cheesy” like that’s a BAD thing.

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Regarding how the doctor got the boys case. I don’t believe it was the little boys case. I got the impression it was the kid (I use the term loosly) who shot him’s case.

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I don’t think so, I’m fairly sure the paperwork had Cole’s name on it.

I guessed that Malcolm died right after he was shot but dismissed it as too obvious. Watching the scene with Cole walking in on Malcolm and his mother, I was pretty sure I was right, though. And the restaurant scene clinched it. My sister who I saw the movie with didn’t figure it out, though.

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Just before the doctor met Cole, he was comparing to files: one for Cole and one for the other kid (Vincent? is that it?).

My wife figured out the ending before seeing the movie. Well, she knew from the previews that the kid saw dead people. And every review she read prattled on about the “surprise ending!” She is very good about guessing the ending in movies, who the murderer is, etc. When she told me that she thought she knew what the surprise was, I guessed at it too. When he was shot, that was it. All through the movie, I kept hoping for a double-cross; you know, the surprise is something else. Oh well.

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I hope this thread isn’t too dead–I have a couple of questions of my own. :slight_smile:

I saw the movie last night–and wow! It was a very well-done movie. I came in knowing the plot and the twist at the end, which made things very interesting–I could watch the subtle hints as they occurred in the film. (Didn’t spoil it at all for me knowing, either.)

My question isn’t about him, though–I’d like to know if anyone could tell what Cara’s mom was poisoning her with. Obviously we could tell that dark bottle of lethal stuff wasn’t good, but I couldn’t tell what it was. Anyone able to read the lable on it?

Meanwhile, I do think that Cole knew Malcolm was a ghost. He ran from him at first, and then at the end, he suggested he talked to his wife while she slept–he just seemed to know what to do. Plus, some of the looks Cole gave Malcolm at the beginning were rather frightened. The difference, I believe, is Malcolm was very gentle in how he spoke to him–didn’t yell or do anything freaky like the others–he just wanted to talk to him, and did.

The “death wounds” on Malcolm weren’t visible until the end, I believe, because of the “they only see what they want to see” reasoning.

The room got cold when Malcolm realized he was dead because he was freaking out. Not angry, per se, but definitely stressing out. His wife’s breath stopped showing as he started to relax and accept.

Cole’s name was on the paperwork Malcolm was reading in the beginning, written at the top and circled. The other boy’s name was Vincent.

Anyway–any ideas on what Cara was killed with?

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“English? Who needs that? I’m never going to England.”

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It was some kind of household cleaning product, but I think the label was purposely obscured, and if seen, wouldn’t be that of an existing product. I can’t think of any company that would want that kind of product placement!

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—Red Green

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Finally got a chance to see the movie this weekend… fantastic! I really feel sorry for those who ‘guessed’ the ending. I used to have that problem too, but learned to stay away from any description of a movie before I saw it. Doesn’t help with every movie, but having no idea there was a ‘surprise’ ending to this film let there be one.

I am reviving this thread because I have a couple questions about the movie. When they were in the school and the kid saw the hanging people, why didn’t it get freezing in the school? I understand that under the movie’s premise it only got cold when the ghosts were feeling overly emotional. So, did that mean the hanging ghosts had so much time on their hands hanging there that they were able to come to an inner peace? I would think that they would rank among the most irritated of people. Or maybe I missed something.

Second, how did he (the boy) know that his teacher was called Stuttering John (or something like that)? It seemed to come to him out of the Ether. Was there any explanation for this?

Thanks for listening,

Rhythmdvl

Once in a while you can get shown the light
in the strangest of places
if you look at it right…