by Yazmin Ghonaim

THE SIXTH SENSE M. Night Shyamalan (1999)  The Sixth Sense, directed and written by M. Night Shyamalan, follows the troubled life of eight-year-old Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment), who --faithful to what his last name suggests-- is haunted by his supernatural abilities to see and communicate with the dead. Being sought after by the disturbed spirits of his hometown Philadelphia, Cole must reconcile this frightening power with his desperate desire to be normal. Growing more isolated from a helpless mother (Toni Collete) and distrustful of his peers in school, Cole soon encounters child psychologist Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis), who is led by obsessive ambitions, although weakened by the thought of his neglected wife (Olivia Williams ). Still, Malcolm represents the only hope for dissolving the horror and restoring sanity. From a broader perspective, The Sixth Sense is about the power to communicate. Dead or alive, every character seeks to reach a level of communication in order to deliver or obtain love, knowledge and peace. The suspense in The Sixth Sense is heightened mostly by its protagonists' convincing performances and by the film's appropriate slow pace, while the film's true horror is created by exploiting its characters' vulnerable states and by making them ignorant of the power of their own strength.		DVD Music Books Search by keywords:
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