Sixth Sense
In The Sixth Sense, writer/director M. Night Shyamalan, in his third feature film, faces a difficult problem: how do you tell an utterly familiar, perhaps even clichéd story, about a boy who is haunted by the dead people around him? Shyamalan's answer is to give the audience what they expect, and then to turn the tables on them, using their own familiarity with the conventions of the horror genre to lead them into a film that is far less horrific than they were led to believe, and far more intelligent, inventive, and emotionally effective than they might imagine.The Sixth Sense opens with Malcolm Crowe, a prominent Philadelphia child psychiatrist (played with refreshing reserve by Bruce Willis), who has received a commendation from the city and is celebrating with his wife Anna (Olivia Williams). The award signals the culmination of a professional career that has overshadowed everything else including his marriage, as Anna is quick to point out. Malcolm promises that this will change, but before the couple can enjoy this reassessment of priorities, he is shot by an intruder, a former patient named Vincent Gray (Donnie Wahlberg), now grown and still afflicted by the demons of his youth. The scene fades out and changes to a Philad
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