The Sixth Sence (1999) Review by Fanny Fan Wai Ping 1704755
The Sixth Sence (1999) blog by Fanny Fan
Sixth Sense (1999)
The Sixth Sense is one of the supernatural film which written by M. Night Shyamalan who is an America filmmaker and expert in producing supernatural plots and twisting the ending. This film is released on 1999 and the story is telling about a little boy, Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) who is able to see dead people or ghost meet a child psychologist, Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) who is trying to help him out of fear. It had confused audience by showing some part which look like the ending of the story as the opening of the film, Malcolm Crowe get shoot by a teenager who is one of the patient of him 10 years ago.
The murder (patient)
This film started with a music which mixed difference emotions and brings the feelings of mystery, curiousness, nervousness, emotional with the special beats. It is a well starting for getting the attention from the audience and aroused the interest and expectation to the film. At the first scene, Malcolm is having a romantic ambience with his wife, suddenly a counter revolution from the romantic to the murder scene. Malcolm get killed by a shoot on left side of his stomach, it cause Malcolm to dead by the bullet pass through his stomach and come out from his back. This scene has been shown by fast cut which is passed very fast in very less time frames in order to let audience have no time to react and catch up, it gives more fear and surprise to audience.
The doors of the cabinets in kitchen had been open widely when Cole's mother go in the kitchen, those doors probably opened by his dead grandma or other dead people, but his mother thought is Cole wanted to find some snacks. When Cole leave the table, his sweat of hands had marked on the table, it is well way to present that he is in nervous. scared and stressed while his mother wake away and the doors has opened by dead people. It strongly expressed his fear towards the dead people to audience.
Red balloon
Red colour is the hints for this entire film, it is representing the dangerous or intimating something will happen after that. When Cole is having birthday party, he has been leaded to the up stair by the red balloon which float up to the top. Cole has heard someone (dead people) is treating him to open the door, then he had forced to enter the room and get locked by the dead people and been scared and tormented by her. After awhile, he had been unlocked and come out with wounds on his back.
In another night, Cole rush in the toilet which near his bedroom, when he open his bedroom, a red blanket which he use to put all the statues of god in order to exorcise evil spirit is shown in the screen. It giving a hints that something bad is gonna happen after that. As expected, a ghost which is a women with serious damaged on half of her face and body is pass by the toilet.
Next, Cole chose to trust Malcolm and tell him his secret which is he has the ability to see ghost. "Dead people they don't know they are dead, they can't see each other, they see what they want to see only." His is trying to intimate that Malcolm is dead due to the patient kill him with a gun but Malcolm thought Cole is in serious psychological issue which got the imagination about seeing ghost. Director has implying that Malcolm use voice recorder pen to record what Cole had said and mention that Cole is sick.
In addition, director had chose to let the step-mother of small little dead girl, Kyra who being poisoned by her dressing a red dress (impossible dress up for who is a relative) on the little girl's funeral to emphasize this character in whole brunch of back and white dress code. It had took long shot when the little girl comes to find Cole, camera had tracking Cole's back to imply that something is following him or something will appear after that.
The Sixth Sense is categorized as the horror film although it is not same as other horror films which are stick to the traditional criteria. The Sixth Sense is included full of suspense and add on come psychological techniques which are less use in horror film, it not only brings creepy, fear, nervous to audience and also playing some psycho effects in deep of feelings and mental of audience. This film was put a lot of efforts in mise-en-scene which can imply messages in many ways. It used lightning and music to deliver the fear rather than jump scares which is common use in other horror films.
Personally like this kind of horror film than other horror films, it not only brings fear but also playing with our suspense with psychological effects such as red colour in order to make us think. Next, it not emphasize on jump scares with sound effects but with well played in some recording techniques such as mise-en-scene, shot scare, duration of shot and others. Highly recommend for watching The Sixth Sense if want to try some difference kind of horror film.
In another night, Cole rush in the toilet which near his bedroom, when he open his bedroom, a red blanket which he use to put all the statues of god in order to exorcise evil spirit is shown in the screen. It giving a hints that something bad is gonna happen after that. As expected, a ghost which is a women with serious damaged on half of her face and body is pass by the toilet.
Next, Cole chose to trust Malcolm and tell him his secret which is he has the ability to see ghost. "Dead people they don't know they are dead, they can't see each other, they see what they want to see only." His is trying to intimate that Malcolm is dead due to the patient kill him with a gun but Malcolm thought Cole is in serious psychological issue which got the imagination about seeing ghost. Director has implying that Malcolm use voice recorder pen to record what Cole had said and mention that Cole is sick.
Red dress up women on funeral
The Sixth Sense is categorized as the horror film although it is not same as other horror films which are stick to the traditional criteria. The Sixth Sense is included full of suspense and add on come psychological techniques which are less use in horror film, it not only brings creepy, fear, nervous to audience and also playing some psycho effects in deep of feelings and mental of audience. This film was put a lot of efforts in mise-en-scene which can imply messages in many ways. It used lightning and music to deliver the fear rather than jump scares which is common use in other horror films.
Personally like this kind of horror film than other horror films, it not only brings fear but also playing with our suspense with psychological effects such as red colour in order to make us think. Next, it not emphasize on jump scares with sound effects but with well played in some recording techniques such as mise-en-scene, shot scare, duration of shot and others. Highly recommend for watching The Sixth Sense if want to try some difference kind of horror film.
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