Tuesday, February 14, 2017

The Sixth Sense

The movie The Sixth Sense, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, is created to have a twist ending. This movie, like most other films directed by M. Night, tries to show you through the film whats going to happen before it is actually seen by you.

Most people have seen this movie, or herd about the ending where Bruce Willis is actually dead the entire movie. But, when people watched it the first time they were genuinely shocked about how it turns out. Yet, if you watched closely enough during the film, a person could figure out the ending. The director left visual clues to help people paying attention to have a better understanding of what is trying to be shown in the scene.

If you go back and re-watch the film there are a few things you might notice:

  • The color red appearing in the film very regularly
  • A visual sudden change in temperature
  • Bruce Willis's normal looking conversations with people
The first thing you will notice on re-watching the film is the color red. Anytime a dead person interacts with the normal world there is red somewhere in the scene. This is a visual clue given to help people who are looking closely to tell what is happening.

The next thing you will notice is the temperature changing suddenly in the movie. Any time a ghost is agitated and interacting with a human the temperature gets visually cold. Their are scenes within the movie where the main character Cole played by Haley Joel Osment comes in contact with an upset ghost and you can see his breath. 

The final visual clue that is left is Bruce Willis's interactions with people. This is reviled in the film at the end. Every interaction with another person besides the main character is not actually happening. All the conversations are either one sided, or seem like he is fitting in on the conversation, but nobody can actually hear him

Visual clues a part of story telling used by Directors to help better tell the story.

For more about this film on Imdb click here
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167404/?ref_=nv_sr_1

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