"The Sixth Sense" is a mystical yet haunting movie by M. Night Shyamalan. It was nominated for 6 Oscars, was recognized by critics and became the most unusual film with an interesting ending. The picture mesmerizes not only with its outcome, but also with the actors' performance, the script, the director's ability to present the material and the musical accompaniment.
What is the movie about?
Malcolm Crowe is a child psychiatrist in Philadelphia. A boy named Cole is brought in for an appointment one day. According to the mother, she constantly sees her son new scratches and bruises, and the child's mood changes dramatically: one moment he can be apathetic, and in another he is already hysterical. The psychiatrist takes up this case because he had a similar patient before who he failed to help.
Cole is similar to that patient not only in appearance, but also in symptoms and family circumstances - that is why Malcolm Crowe believes that he is obliged to help him. At the same time he wants to understand what he did wrong last time. In the course of regular appointments, the patient starts trusting him, and Crowe himself realizes that the problems lie not in family relations, but in something else. Cole confesses to him that he sees and feels the dead, which cause him negative emotions and physical pain.
Malcom Crowe shuts himself off from his wife, withdrawing into thoughts of the patient, and the boy, in turn, fears telling his mother the truth, he doesn't want to see her negative reaction and tries to keep her from stress. The main theme running through the movie is the communication between mother and son, husband and wife, and between psychiatrist and patient. When even the closest people don't know how to properly interact with each other, the lack of informative contact adds more discord to their relationship.
Musical Accompaniment
М. Knight Shyamalan was quite meticulous in his choice of composers. Jameson Newton Howard caught the director's idea quite delicately, so that the music throughout the movie was perfectly matched with the mood, although movie critics at times saw a sudden contrast between it and the picture.
A cold and indifferent mind
"A cold mind and a hot heart" was the name given to cameraman Taka Fujimoto, who brought his signature handwriting to the picture. The storyboards of the frightening moments were cold and indifferent, the cameraman emotionlessly moved after people and coldly conveyed the horror of the movie.
What is the ending?
"The Sixth Sense" has made many different impressions on people. Some believe that the film has an exceptional ending unlike anything else - it made people go to the movie theater several times to understand the hidden meaning or to answer their inner questions. Others criticized Shyamalan on every excuse they could find, believing his picture to be terribly silly. Over time, The Sixth Sense has been labeled as a free-thinking movie with its own twist.
Is it worth watching?
This is a mystical movie with detective drama of ordinary life, which throughout the screen time keeps the viewer in suspense: you build theories, assumptions, trying to understand the main characters, you are not given a place for hope, the problem of communication is increasingly uncomfortable.... The movie is worth every minute spent.
