In “The Sixth Sense” when do you think the little boy realized that Bruce Willis is a ghost?
I say from the very beginning. My wife says later, like after the poisoned girl’s wake.
What say you all?
I think it was when he was in the hospital after the dark room trauma… When the little boy started talking strait to him. I think he became apparent then.
In the beginning. Notice how he avoided Bruce and ran into the church.
Well, I realised he was dead after five minutes…
I revise my fisr statement and agree with Montfort. I on the otherhand, never know the outcome of movies, other than sappy chick flix (which I love!!!). When I found out he was dead. It shocked me.
I think he recognized it right away, first his avoidance and the dread in his voice as he asks, ‘I’m going to see you again, aren’t I?’ I, unlike Montfort, was blown away by the ending, and had to see the movie again, since I was so POSITIVE that Bruce had ‘talked’ with others like the mom. But of course, in watching it again, only confirmed he had spoken to no one.
I thought it was a great movie.
Um, me too.
Yes, definitely at the first. Remember he could see the ghosts as they really were, while they saw themselves as they wanted to be seen. Bruce Willis had been shot, but he couldn’t see that himself. The boy could.
Great movie, BTW. If you haven’t seen the DVD version with extra footage, director interviews, etc., do so by all means. They even have the director’s first horror movie, shot when he was about 13 years old. (It’s not quite as good as Sixth Sense.)
I think he knew to start with–but Crowe was very unlike the other ghosts, so he didn’t know quite what to make of him. That’s why we didn’t see the panic/flee-for-shelter reaction.
As for when I figured it out, well…I had my suspicions before they even spoke to each other. Something seemed very out-of-whack about the way Crowe set up the first meeting, and I noticed the clothes. I became absolutely sure at the scene with Crowe and Cole’s mother sitting in the living room. That just screams the secret if you’re already suspicious.
I remeber sitting in class one day right after school I was going to go see it. Then two of my classmates started talking about it. then they told me Bruce Willis’s character was a ghost. I wanted to slap em. ::sigh::
After I first saw the movie, I was back in line for a ticket to see the same movie the VERY NEXT NIGHT for that exact reason.
I’m going to have to second Pluto’s recommendation. These interviews delve into why they hired the actors they hired, how the project got green-lighted, how all the chips fell into place, etc. Not all audio commentaries and interview segments on DVDs are great, but this one is definitely worth recommending.
It was an awesome movie, wasn’t it?
My question is this: who recognized Donnie Wahlberg?! I sure as hell didn’t.
I usually get that sort of thing but completely missed it in this movie. Even though I was sure he died on the bed, I figured there was some kind of miracle movie recovery involved. Looking back, all the clues were there, but you know what they say about hindsight.
I watched it with a friend, and when Bruce Willis was shot, I asked him, “Presumably he survives, huh? Otherwise, what would be the point of the movie?”.
My friend (who had by then already seen the movie three times) wanted to laugh but managed to keep his cool. Too bad I dismissed the idea. Still loved the movie, though.
It’s been awhile since I have seen the movie, what part did he play? 
I agree the movie was good. The ending took me by complete surprise. I had to go back and see it a second time to see for myself that he didn’t talk to anyone except for the little boy.
I took a lot of crap from my friends when I told them that I was completely un-fooled by the movie. What clinched it (my hunch that Bruce was really dead) was the anniversary scene dinner with his wife. If he was alive, and if they were just having marital problems, it would’ve played out a LOT differently than it did in the scene.
Anyway, add that scene to the first scene with the kid running into the church and it made me say “Oh, yeah, of course.” Keep in mind that I didn’t even know that there was a “big secret” in the film when I saw it. (A tangent: A similar thing happened when I saw The Crying Game, before the hype about the “secret” was out – I thought the big secret was about the guy getting crushed by the truck, not that his girlfriend was really a transvestite; I saw that a mile away).
But, not to toot my own horn. I was completely befuddled by The Usual Suspects and Fight Club. Coincidentally, I was more impressed by those movies than I was by The Sixth Sense – I gave this one a faily negative review on a web site I run with a friend.
Oh, and I saw Donnie Wahlberg’s name in the opening credits and recognised him instantly when he showed up in the opening scenes (he’s the guy who shot Bruce).
I heard what the secret was before I saw the movie, and I was pretty mad about that. I think that I might have made the same assumption about Bruce Willis making it, since he was in the rest of the movie. I don’t know when I would have suspected.
My sister suspected about 3 weeks before she saw the movie. One day she told me that in the middle of the night, she woke up, thought “Bruce Willis is the dead guy” and went back to sleep. It was all I could do to not confirm her suspicions. She actually thought that she was way off judging by my reaction (good thing I have a great poker face), so she didn’t really suspect that she was right until about half way through the movie. She said that her tip off was the wife watching the marriage videos over and over again.
But… she wasn’t positive that she was right until the very end.
Hah! I saw The Usual Suspects coming a mile away. On the other hand, The Sixth Sense took me in completely, even though I knew it was supposed to have a surprise ending.
It just goes to show…
Well, it goes to show something, I’m sure.
When Crowe was shot, I thought, “Finally, a movie where someone is shot and lives!” In movies gunshot wounds are almost invariably fatal, while in real life many people survive them. How wrong I was! I didn’t even come cloe to guessing the twist before it was revealed, and this despite having already read a review which pretty much gave the game away by alluding to “Sunset Blvd.”
My mother usually cannot see plot twists coming as well as I can, but thsi time she beat me by far – she figured it out during the scene towards the end where Haley Joel Osmet and Bruce Willis were talking after the school play.
Oh, I think that the kid knew Crowe was a ghost from the beginning. The first time I saw the movie I wasn’t sure, butt he second time it was obvious.
The kid knew Crowe was a ghost from the moment he saw him.
Mrs. O, however, knew Bruce was dead as soon as he’d been shot and couldn’t figure out why everyone else’s jaws, including mine, hit the floor at the end of the movie.
She’s been smug as hell about it ever since.
What I was confused about after the movie was the part when Bruce Willis is talking to the boys mom in the Living Room. How did he get in if she can not see her? Who the heck was she talking to if she did not know he was there? So