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The Sixth Sense

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The Sixth Sense	comment	The Sixth Sense is a 1999 horror/thriller written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Haley Joel Osment and Bruce Willis.Successful child psychologist Malcolm Crowe (Willis) is shot and injured in his home by a disturbed former patient of his, who commits suicide immediately following the shooting. Months later, a still-shaken Malcolm comes across the case of ten-year-old Cole Sear (Osment), who is exhibiting exactly the same symptoms of his former patient: frequent panic attacks, social withdrawal, and unexplained injuries. Seeing a chance to redeem himself by helping Cole, Malcolm takes a special interest in Cole and begins counseling him. Learning the secret behind Cole's condition, however, only makes things stranger than Malcolm could have imagined.The film got six Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Shyamalan, Best Supporting Actor for Osment, Best Supporting Actress for Toni Collette (as Cole's mother), and Best Film Editing, but won none of them.Warning: Spoilers below!
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The Sixth Sense / int_105cabdd	type	Jacob Marley Apparel
The Sixth Sense / int_105cabdd	comment	Jacob Marley Apparel: All the ghosts wear clothes they were wearing when they died. Malcolm isn't the exception; throughout the movie he is wearing items that he had with him that night. We never see the gunshot wound because he is wearing his jacket over his shirt or the camera angles just don't reveal it when he has it off.
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The Sixth Sense / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
The Sixth Sense / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: M. Night Shyamalan plays a doctor who wrongfully believes that Lynn is abusing her son.
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The Sixth Sense / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
The Sixth Sense / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The fact that Cole can see ghosts isn't revealed until the halfway point of the movie, but everyone already knew thanks to the trailer. This was most likely forced on the producers since it's the main theme of the film, so not mentioning this in any trailer would just make it seem like an ordinary drama about a child psychologist trying to help a troubled youth, which would pretty much be false marketing instead.
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The Sixth Sense / int_1b122c5d	type	Scare Chord
The Sixth Sense / int_1b122c5d	comment	Scare Chord: Subtler than in some movies but definitely there.
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The Sixth Sense / int_1b590025	type	Dead All Along
The Sixth Sense / int_1b590025	comment	Dead All Along: The famous twist ending. Malcolm finds out at the end of the movie that he didn't survive the shooting when his former patient broke into his home.
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The Sixth Sense / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
The Sixth Sense / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Mr. Collins confronts the person responsible for his daughter's death: his wife. He has a teary Death Glare.
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The Sixth Sense / int_1e6eb73	type	Birthday Party Goes Wrong
The Sixth Sense / int_1e6eb73	comment	Birthday Party Goes Wrong: The birthday boy bemoans the fact that his parents forced him to invite the weird kid Cole to his party. When Cole hears a deceased person's voice from upstairs, the boys lock him in the attic. It ruins the party for everyone else and Cole has to be taken to the doctor.
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The Sixth Sense / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
The Sixth Sense / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: One of the dead people Cole sees was a small girl poisoned by her mother putting cleaning fluid in her soup.
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The Sixth Sense / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
The Sixth Sense / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Among the dead people seen is a preteen girl poisoned to death by her mother. Cole encounters a ghost of a pre-teen boy who had shown his friend his father's gun and accidentally shot himself, and we see the wound in the back of his head.
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The Sixth Sense / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
The Sixth Sense / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Kyra's mother. She poisoned her daughter with floor cleaner apparently out of MÃ¼nchausen Syndrome by Proxy, and for all the audience knows had zero regrets for eventually giving her a fatal dose. The more horrible part is that Kyra's father had to see a video showing her mother mixing in the poison with her drinks right in the girl's bedroom. Worse yet, the other attendees at Kyra's funeral mention her sister is coming down with the same symptoms — her mother's poisoning her, too.
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The Sixth Sense / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
The Sixth Sense / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: Kyra's mom kills her by regularly poisoning her lunch for two years. And after Kyra dies, the mom starts to poison Kyra's younger sister too. Kyra gets justice by giving filmed proof of the clandestine act to Cole, who gives it to Kyra's dad, who watches the video along with the guests at Kyra's wake.
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The Sixth Sense / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Sixth Sense / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: The voice on the tape of Vincent's session is speaking Spanish; the person is saying, "Please, I don't want to die, Lord; save me, save me."
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The Sixth Sense / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Sixth Sense / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshaded when Malcolm is telling a bedtime story to the kid.
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The Sixth Sense / int_2ccdff6c	type	Mortal Wound Reveal
The Sixth Sense / int_2ccdff6c	comment	Mortal Wound Reveal: The Reveal tells us what happened with Malcolm: his wife tried to staunch the blood from his gunshot wound with her bare hands on thinking it's coming from his stomach. Then she sees the blood pooling from his back and uncovers a bigger wound. Anna starts sobbing helplessly, knowing she can't save him in time for an ambulance to come.
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The Sixth Sense / int_2d6c0bce	type	Talking in Your Sleep
The Sixth Sense / int_2d6c0bce	comment	Talking in Your Sleep: The only way Malcolm can get his wife to talk to him. Somehow, Cole knew this would work for Malcolm when nothing else would.
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The Sixth Sense / int_2f329e3c	type	Tomato in the Mirror
The Sixth Sense / int_2f329e3c	comment	Tomato in the Mirror: Malcolm only figures out that he's been Dead All Along in the last five minutes or so of the film.
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The Sixth Sense / int_30d4f2a	type	Narcissist
The Sixth Sense / int_30d4f2a	comment	At Kyra's funeral, Kyra's mother wears a bright red dress and matching lipstick, which is an entirely inappropriate color for a funeral. Because she's a narcissist who poisoned her kids.
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The Sixth Sense / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
The Sixth Sense / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: When he was a boy, Cole's teacher was teased and called Stuttering Stanley because of his Speech Impediment. Cole learns this from ghosts at school and blurts it out in class one day.
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The Sixth Sense / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
The Sixth Sense / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: Malcolm himself at the end is revealed to be Dead All Along. The film concludes with Malcolm saying goodbye to his wife and moving on to the afterlife after he finally comes to terms with his fate.
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The Sixth Sense / int_3a3e2875	type	Medicate the Medium
The Sixth Sense / int_3a3e2875	comment	Medicate the Medium: Naturally, nobody believes Cole can see strange things and assume his injuries are a result of child abuse. He gets evaluated by several doctors.
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The Sixth Sense / int_3a4ec6e8	type	Afterlife Angst
The Sixth Sense / int_3a4ec6e8	comment	Afterlife Angst: Malcolm Crowe examines himself, finally notices his forgotten gunshot wound, and slumps against the wall, visibly shaken by the conclusion he's drawn from this and other clues. He didn't survive getting shot in the gut at the beginning of the movie after all. He's been a ghost the whole time he was talking to Cole Sear.
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The Sixth Sense / int_3ad4462	type	Reverse Relationship Reveal
The Sixth Sense / int_3ad4462	comment	Reverse Relationship Reveal: Malcolm is a child psychologist and Cole is a child who can see dead people. Malcolm suggests to Cole that he is supposed to help the dead people find their path to the afterlife and let go of their earthly concerns. It turns out that Malcolm is dead and Cole is helping him find his path to the afterlife.
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The Sixth Sense / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
The Sixth Sense / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Cole and Vincent's abilities are nothing but trouble for them.
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The Sixth Sense / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
The Sixth Sense / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Double-subverted. Despite being shot, Malcolm seems to be fine when we check in with him again a year later. But of course, the famous twist turns out to be that he was Dead All Along.
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The Sixth Sense / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Sixth Sense / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: More on the sweet side than bitter. Cole will never be able to stop seeing the dead, but finds a way to live with it by helping ghosts with their problems and helping them pass on. As for Malcolm, he's revealed to be Dead All Along. However, he finds solace in knowing that he's done with his Unfinished Business and manages to tell his wife that he loves her before passing on.
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The Sixth Sense / int_44ba63a1	type	Flashback-Montage Realization
The Sixth Sense / int_44ba63a1	comment	Flashback-Montage Realization: Malcolm remembers Cole's statements about dead people not knowing they are dead, and he also remembers previous events, most notably when he was shot at the beginning of the movie, now with the insight that he was really dead/dying in those situations.
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The Sixth Sense / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
The Sixth Sense / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: After the credits, the panicked Spanish ghost from Malcolm's tape is heard saying "No me quiero morir"note "I don't want to die." one more time. Doubles as a Last Note Nightmare.
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The Sixth Sense / int_4e20ce40	type	Returning the Wedding Ring
The Sixth Sense / int_4e20ce40	comment	Returning the Wedding Ring: Malcolm's wife drops a wedding ring and lets it roll across the floor to signify the end of their marriage. The ring is his, and of course the fact he's dead was the real reason the marriage ended.
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The Sixth Sense / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Sixth Sense / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "They don't know that they're dead." "Why did you have to leave?" "...Standing next to my window."
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The Sixth Sense / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
The Sixth Sense / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: In Kyra's video, the camera catches her mother pouring floor cleaner into her soup. It confirms she was being poisoned. Malcolm sees his wedding ring roll from under the couch where his wife is sleeping. Then he stares at his hand and realizes it's bare. He would never take off his wedding ring — unless he died, which he has.
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The Sixth Sense / int_510e5a9	type	Sassy Black Woman
The Sixth Sense / int_510e5a9	comment	Sassy Black Woman: Anna's friend on hers and Malcolm's wedding video. It's a bit jarring.
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The Sixth Sense / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Sixth Sense / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: At the end of Malcolm's first meeting with Cole, Cole says, "I'm going to see you again, aren't I?", and seems unenthusiastic about the prospect. At the end of their final meeting, which is much more friendly, Cole says, "I'm not going to see you anymore, am I?", and when Malcolm confirms it, suggests that they could pretend they'll be seeing each other again tomorrow so it won't seem so final.
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The Sixth Sense / int_56572916	type	Bedtime Brainwashing
The Sixth Sense / int_56572916	comment	Bedtime Brainwashing: The protagonist does this to his wife in the end to ask her for forgiveness and reassure her that he still loves her and she can let go. Considering that he's dead, it's the only way he can talk to her by himself.
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The Sixth Sense / int_5987e4d1	type	Sanctuary of Solitude
The Sixth Sense / int_5987e4d1	comment	Sanctuary of Solitude: Cole is sitting in a church by himself when Malcolm goes to talk to him.
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The Sixth Sense / int_5af55436	type	Forced to Watch
The Sixth Sense / int_5af55436	comment	Forced to Watch: Literally at Kyra's funeral. Her father, Mr. Collins, starts crying angrily when he sees video evidence that her mother poisoned her, and he's mad at her and himself for not having realized it.
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The Sixth Sense / int_605cf3f	type	Something Only They Would Say
The Sixth Sense / int_605cf3f	comment	Something Only They Would Say: This is how Cole demonstrates his medium powers to his mother, by repeating several things that only his grandmother's ghost would know about.
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The Sixth Sense / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
The Sixth Sense / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: Cole didn't know Kyra personally, so he wasn't invited to her funeral. He dresses up in a suit, walks in, and no one takes notice of him going to Kyra's room. Malcolm also follows, but no one could see him even if they were looking for him.
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The Sixth Sense / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
The Sixth Sense / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: Thanks to Cole being a Creepy Child, his peers bully and hate him. This turns around at the end, as seen in the play the class puts on: Cole plays the stable boy who becomes king and the leader of the bullies plays the village idiot. Mr. Cunningham was the one who gave Cole the part in the play, the last part was just probably unintentional. So, for all we know, Cole's still ostracized, but he's more confident about himself that slowly, but surely, his peers will accept him more.
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The Sixth Sense / int_6459cc02	type	I See Dead People
The Sixth Sense / int_6459cc02	comment	I See Dead People: Trope namedinvoked for the line by Cole.
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The Sixth Sense / int_6492f4ca	type	Spirit Advisor
The Sixth Sense / int_6492f4ca	comment	Spirit Advisor: Malcolm just doesn't know it yet, and then Cole learns to become an adviser for spirits to help them move on.
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The Sixth Sense / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
The Sixth Sense / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: Malcolm sheds them when he realizes he's dead and says goodbye to his wife for the last time. "You were never second."
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The Sixth Sense / int_66cef86d	type	School Play
The Sixth Sense / int_66cef86d	comment	School Play: Brief scene at Cole's school. Also a trick some bullies play on him.
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The Sixth Sense / int_697c3646	type	Ghastly Ghost
The Sixth Sense / int_697c3646	comment	Ghastly Ghost: The apparitions are frightening to see, and though not all of them mean harm, many of them died in violent and tragic circumstances and haven't got over it, making them restless and angry. One example is the shrieking spirit of the battered housewife who appears to Cole in the kitchen.
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The Sixth Sense / int_6a669b5b	type	Lost Wedding Ring
The Sixth Sense / int_6a669b5b	comment	Lost Wedding Ring: Which its owner is the last person to find out about.
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The Sixth Sense / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Sixth Sense / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Malcolm is dead. His wife isn't cheating on him, she's trying to move on, and she doesn't respond to what he says to her because she doesn't know he's even there.
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The Sixth Sense / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Sixth Sense / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Cole Sear, get it? He sees things. Combined with his first name: he sees dark things. Crows (Crowe) are often associated with death.
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The Sixth Sense / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Sixth Sense / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Malcolm's former patient is a deeply troubled young man who shoots himself. A ghost that Cole meets with slits on her arms.
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The Sixth Sense / int_6de63fe4	type	I Am Not Leonard Nimoy
The Sixth Sense / int_6de63fe4	comment	I Am Not Leonard Nimoy: Many people tend to refer to Cole by his actor, Haley Joel Osment.
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The Sixth Sense / int_705d2ccf	type	Unseen No More
The Sixth Sense / int_705d2ccf	comment	Unseen No More: Cole, the Trope Namerinvoked for I See Dead People, discusses his ability to see ghosts, but it isn't until halfway through the film we get to see the ghosts. That is, unless you count Malcolm, who was a ghost the whole time.
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The Sixth Sense / int_735b4101	type	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
The Sixth Sense / int_735b4101	comment	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Red appears often in the film to show the importance of things: the red doors of the church, the ruby knob of the basement door, a red outfit...
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The Sixth Sense / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
The Sixth Sense / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: After it becomes apparent that the viewer has One Side of the Story.
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The Sixth Sense / int_7d3f1d63	type	The Ending Changes Everything
The Sixth Sense / int_7d3f1d63	comment	Practically spawned the twist ending for the new millennium. Also a strange variant of The Ending Changes Everything: everything we saw previously is true, but much of it means something completely different from what it seemed to mean.
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The Sixth Sense / int_7ef9fa03	type	Expanded Universe
The Sixth Sense / int_7ef9fa03	comment	Expanded Universe: A series of three books, written for young readers, was released in 2000 chronicling the adventures of Cole Sear following the film.
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The Sixth Sense / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
The Sixth Sense / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: Cole's mother, seeing the bruises and scratches on her son, assumes he was bullied by a classmate. The injuries were actually caused by a ghost, but the classmate was indirectly responsible as he was bullying Cole and trapped him in the cupboard with said ghost.
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The Sixth Sense / int_85cefc44	type	Sympathetic Adulterer
The Sixth Sense / int_85cefc44	comment	Sympathetic Adulterer: Malcolm's wife seems to be cheating on him which pisses him off. Yet, they seem to be fighting for most of the movie, and Malcolm's temper has run thin. Subverted as he is dead and she is just extremely depressed and looking for solace. Malcolm has a Jerkass Realization on his face when he realizes.
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The Sixth Sense / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
The Sixth Sense / int_874176be	comment	Psychic Powers: Cole's most prevalent ability is Mediumship.
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The Sixth Sense / int_87a38662	type	Murder-Suicide
The Sixth Sense / int_87a38662	comment	Murder-Suicide: Vincent tries this on Malcolm and himself in the opening. He shoots Malcolm because he blames him for not helping him and then turns the gun to himself. Viewers find out only at the end of the movie that Malcolm didn't survive.
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The Sixth Sense / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
The Sixth Sense / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: Kyra's ghost never speaks on screen,note There's apparently an alternate version (perhaps a director's cut) where upon appearing in Cole's indoor tent, vomiting profusely, she then says "I'm feeling much better now." although Cole's actions after each of her appearances indicate that she spoke to him between scenes. (The living Kyra doesn't speak on the video her father watches, either, except from offscreen while doing a silly voice for her puppets: she's also heard saying "I'm feeling much better now" to her mom.) There's probably a metaphor there about Cole being the only one who could hear her asking for help.
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The Sixth Sense / int_8f612013	type	Token Good Teammate
The Sixth Sense / int_8f612013	comment	Token Good Teammate: Subverted with Malcolm. Cole thinks he's the only one that hasn't tried to hurt him. He and Malcolm eventually figure out that ghosts don't want to hurt Cole, but are trying to reach out for his help and react defensively because they don't see him. Malcolm happened to be the only one who was a child psychologist.
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The Sixth Sense / int_915242d3	type	Pstandard Psychic Pstance
The Sixth Sense / int_915242d3	comment	Pstandard Psychic Pstance: Invoked by Malcolm when he does a "mind reading" game to break the ice with Cole; he ostentatiously raises his hands and presses his fingers to his temples before making his first pronouncement.
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The Sixth Sense / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
The Sixth Sense / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: The color red. Pay close attention to any scene with red in it. It means something important. The fact that Kyra's mother is dressed in red, as if she's going to a dinner party or get together, instead of a funeral, should tip the viewer off to the fact that she is an Attention Whore who deliberately kept her daughter sick and ended up killing her.
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The Sixth Sense / int_91cab736	type	Major Injury Underreaction
The Sixth Sense / int_91cab736	comment	Major Injury Underreaction: Justified; when Malcolm is dying, he tells Anna he's fine and doesn't feel any pain. It was his body giving out to blood loss and shock.
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The Sixth Sense / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
The Sixth Sense / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Kyra's first appearance to Cole. Turns into a Vomit Discretion Shot in the following scene where her puking in front of Cole is censored by a Reaction Shot of him watching in disgust.
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The Sixth Sense / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
The Sixth Sense / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: A very interesting aversion. From the standpoint of every other character, Cole does not have a therapist. But he does. Stands out the most notably when the doctor is having Cole checked to see if he is being abused, and Malcolm is just sitting there — when a real therapist would surely be adding his two cents.
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The Sixth Sense / int_97b4c1fd	type	Cut Himself Shaving
The Sixth Sense / int_97b4c1fd	comment	Cut Himself Shaving: Subverted. Poor Cole has ghosts repeatedly assaulting him. People assume his mother is injuring him, and she can't figure out what's happening to him.
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The Sixth Sense / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
The Sixth Sense / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": The people watching Kyra's last videotape, including her father, have this reaction when they see the evidence that her mother was poisoning her. They look at Mr. Collins, who confronts his wife.
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The Sixth Sense / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Sixth Sense / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: After watching this film the first time through without spoilers, it is almost impossible to watch it again without seeing obvious foreshadowing. If you pay close attention, Malcolm is always wearing something he was wearing the day he was shot. When Malcolm visits Cole in the hospital, Cole looks directly at Malcolm's wound. This is doubly important as this is what he does immediately before saying the signature line. The color red pops up whenever there is something supernatural going on — people wear red, objects in the environment are red, and several of the ghosts wear something red. This not only allows viewers to anticipate the appearances of ghosts before they happen by noticing the scene has a lot of red things in it, but hints to The Reveal about Malcolm — his wife frequently wears red and the doorknob to his office is red. At Kyra's funeral, Kyra's mother wears a bright red dress and matching lipstick, which is an entirely inappropriate color for a funeral. Because she's a narcissist who poisoned her kids. Pay attention to people's behavior whenever Malcolm is around. They shiver and put on jackets, and none of them ever talk to Malcolm or acknowledge his presence — the few times they seem to, it's deliberate misdirection and a second look will show they weren't actually acknowledging him. In the scene in the restaurant, it appears as if his wife is looking in his direction when he's speaking, and when she finally says "Happy Anniversary," it looks like she's addressing those words to him. One possible interpretation is that she senses his presence but doesn't consciously realize what it is. The choreography adds even more subtlety to the scene: It's a single shot take that begins behind Anna when Malcolm shows up, whoâ€™s looking to the side until he starts talking, at which point she looks in his direction. As the shot zooms in on Malcolm, it looks as if she's indeed looking and listening to him before itâ€™s completely focused on him for a bit. When it gets back to her, she looks in his direction only once before never looking at him again for the rest of the scene. Malcolm doesn't adjust his chair at all like most people do when sitting down at a table, he simply sits down in it and leans forward. Shyamalan was very careful to make sure that Malcolm doesn't interact with his environment in a way that would catch a living person's notice. Malcolm says he "can't seem to keep track of time", he "could just be wrong" about Cole, he's "been a little distant", talks about the "distance between" him and Anna, and he feels like he's been given "a second chance" to fix things. He's absolutely right, but not as intended. The door to Malcolm's basement, where he stores his tapes and other information from his cases, is repeatedly locked whenever he tries to open it. He always has to fumble around for the key, but we never actually see him find it and open the door. When he finally starts to realize what's going on, he looks at the door and sees it's not only locked, it actually has a desk with books on top blocking it shut. Cole states that it gets colder when a ghost is angry. Malcolm is calm during most of his scenes with Cole — and when he does lose his temper, Cole's breath suddenly becomes visible.
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The Sixth Sense / int_9dc46ce8	type	Otherworldly Communication Failure
The Sixth Sense / int_9dc46ce8	comment	Otherworldly Communication Failure: Cole is at first terrified of the ghosts that he encounters and the latest one, a little girl, has him particularly spooked. However, after calming down he tries to communicate with her and learns that she just wants his help in showing her family that her mother, suffering from Munchausen By Proxy, killed her.
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The Sixth Sense / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Sixth Sense / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Kyra's funeral is quite a ride. Her father is grieving as Cole comes up to him and gives him a videotape. Cole says that Kyra wanted him to watch it. The video starts with Kyra doing a silly puppet show, and Mr. Collins smiles sadly because he has one last recorded memory of her being a quirky kid. Then Kyra hides the camera, and her mother comes in, clearly putting floor cleaner into the little girl's soup. Kyra's dad is now sad and horrified.
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The Sixth Sense / int_a6bd0685	type	Died in Your Arms Tonight
The Sixth Sense / int_a6bd0685	comment	Died in Your Arms Tonight: Malcolm died with only Anna available.
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The Sixth Sense / int_abdf7d09	type	Weirdness Censor
The Sixth Sense / int_abdf7d09	comment	Weirdness Censor: A variant: it applies to the ghosts. "They see what they want to see," doing the same things they did in life. And they don't see each other which is another hint to the twist.
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The Sixth Sense / int_ac1a6ce3	type	Cute Ghost Girl
The Sixth Sense / int_ac1a6ce3	comment	Cute Ghost Girl: Kyra, the poisoning victim.
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The Sixth Sense / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Sixth Sense / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The look on Kyra's mother's face when everyone finds out what she did to her own daughter. And at the daughter's wake, no less! Malcolm has this reaction when he realizes he died a year ago, and that he's been walking around as a ghost.
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The Sixth Sense / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Sixth Sense / int_b352e864	comment	Sexless Marriage: Malcolm and Anna's marriage gets progressively more distant and strained. If you've seen the movie, you know why.
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The Sixth Sense / int_b4696332	type	My Greatest Second Chance
The Sixth Sense / int_b4696332	comment	My Greatest Second Chance: The film opens with one of Malcolm's patients, a boy named Vincent, breaking into the doctor's home and attempting Murder-Suicide (only partially successful, though) because Malcolm couldn't cure him. Then Malcolm discovers that Cole has a similar psychological problem going on and tries to help him. Turns out that Vincent was actually fully successful in murdering Malcolm, and he's trying to help Cole because it's part of his Ghostly Goals.
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The Sixth Sense / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Sixth Sense / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: "Silence, Village Idiot!"
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The Sixth Sense / int_b869b5b1	type	Color Motif
The Sixth Sense / int_b869b5b1	comment	Color Motif: Shyamalan deliberately used the color red to depict when the world of the living and the world of the dead would cross over. If red was in a scene where that was not the case, he would change it. The door to the church where Cole and Malcolm first interact is red, and the statue Cole takes from the church has a red robe. The doorknob to Malcolm's basement is red. Cole's school uniform jacket is reddish (maroon); he is often approached by the dead people while at school and/or wearing his uniform. Anna wears a red dress at the restaurant where Malcolm is "late" for their anniversary. When Malcolm is watching his wife Anna in the shower and notices her prescription in the cabinet, it is in a reddish-brown container. Lynn Sear's nail polish is red when she is pointing out the white spots (ghosts) on all the pictures of Cole in the hallway. Cole's "free association" writing is in red ink; the writing presumably records things he has heard from the dead. At the birthday party, all the visible balloons are pastel-colored, except for the red balloon that floats up the stairway and leads Cole to the small closet. Cole is wearing a red sweater when he is attacked by the spirit in the closet. Cole's blanket at the hospital is reddish (pink) when he confesses to Malcolm that he sees dead people. The birthday gift Anna gives to Sean is in a red box, and she is wearing red when the two of them embrace and Malcolm breaks the shop door. When Malcolm listens to a taped session with Vincent, as he turns up the cassette recorder volume, the control numbers go from white to red. Kyra Collins appears in Cole's fort, and the blanket covering it is red. The box containing Kyra's VHS tape is trimmed in red and has a red-lined interior. The outfit worn by Mrs. Collins at Kyra's wake is bright red, and she is the only person wearing a bright color. In the video, the soup Mrs. Collins brings to Kyra is tomato soup, and the bottle of pine cleaner Mrs. Collins adds to the soup has a red cap on it. The bicyclist Cole sees next to the car is wearing a red helmet. The blanket that Anna Crowe covers herself with while watching the wedding video is red.
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The Sixth Sense / int_bafa1190	type	Unfinished Business
The Sixth Sense / int_bafa1190	comment	Unfinished Business: Most ghosts have it. Malcolm has two pieces of it: first, to be sure his wife knows how he felt about her; second, to help Cole, a child troubled with exactly the problem that he failed to handle well when another child had it.
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The Sixth Sense / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Sixth Sense / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Cole doesn't like people staring at him, and his teacher doesn't like to be reminded he stuttered his entire childhood. Though he probably didn't like the thought that the only way the boy could have known that is if he really was psychic.
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The Sixth Sense / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
The Sixth Sense / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: As is to be expected in a ghost story. Most notable are Kyra's first appearance, suddenly popping up in Cole's tent, and what immediately follows the line "I'll show you where my dad keeps his gun!"
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The Sixth Sense / int_c39dd4d	type	Fade to White
The Sixth Sense / int_c39dd4d	comment	Fade to White: How Malcolm exits the film.
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The Sixth Sense / int_c450b632	type	So Unfunny, It's Funny
The Sixth Sense / int_c450b632	comment	So Unfunny, It's Funny: Halfway through the film, Malcolm tries to get Cole to ease up by performing a magic trick where he claims to move a coin from his hand to his shirt pocket, etc. Problem is, he never takes the coin out of either spot, he just taps the spot and claims the coin moved there. It actually works and convinces Cole that he has nothing to fear from Malcolm. Later Cole is seen doing the same trick to another kid, who just dismisses it as "stupid."
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The Sixth Sense / int_c547f08d	type	Ghostly Chill
The Sixth Sense / int_c547f08d	comment	Ghostly Chill: The presence of ghosts cause rooms to get colder and anybody nearby to shiver, like any time Malcolm is around.
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The Sixth Sense / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
The Sixth Sense / int_c54d550d	comment	Novelization: By Peter Lerangis.
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The Sixth Sense / int_c5835f29	type	Ghostly Goals
The Sixth Sense / int_c5835f29	comment	Ghostly Goals: Cole eventually figures out that most of the ghosts he interacts with want the living to do something for them. Kyra, for example, wants her mother's crimes to be exposed and her sister saved. Most ghosts aren't even aware they're dead, though, so they can't voice their wishes in any coherent way. Malcolm's is helping Cole the way he failed to help Vincent.
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The Sixth Sense / int_c92cf19a	type	Undead Child
The Sixth Sense / int_c92cf19a	comment	Undead Child: The ghost of Kyra, the poisoned girl. There is also the ghost of a teenage boy who seemingly shot himself (because half of his head is missing) and a boy ghost who hangs from the ceiling.
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The Sixth Sense / int_cad80e66	type	Blame the Paramour
The Sixth Sense / int_cad80e66	comment	Blame the Paramour: Malcolm is infuriated when he spies on his wife and sees her with another man, and insults the man under his breath. She's not actually cheating on him, though. He was Dead All Along.
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The Sixth Sense / int_cc8b2fd	type	Ascended Fridge Horror
The Sixth Sense / int_cc8b2fd	comment	Ascended Fridge Horror: Malcolm nearly falls over when he realizes he's been dead for a year and didn't survive his gunshot wound. Then he's remembering his frosty encounters with Anna and realizes she could never see him, and she was mourning all along.
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The Sixth Sense / int_ccde30d7	type	Arranged Friendship
The Sixth Sense / int_ccde30d7	comment	Arranged Friendship: Cole is forced to hang out with a classmate named Tommy, despite Tommy being a bully and a jerk. When Dr. Malcolm Crowe asks Cole about his friendship with Tommy, Cole responds by explaining that Tommy hates him and that his mother set it up. Despite this, Cole clarifies that he does not hate Tommy back, just dislikes being around him.
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The Sixth Sense / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
The Sixth Sense / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: A full example when the bullies make Cole peek into a closet, where he's tormented by a ghost, the only one the audience hears but never sees.
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The Sixth Sense / int_d0692227	type	Spooky Photographs
The Sixth Sense / int_d0692227	comment	Spooky Photographs: Cole's mom notices that several photos of her son feature strange blooms of light, obviously ghosts.
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The Sixth Sense / int_d3145d69	type	Blanket Fort
The Sixth Sense / int_d3145d69	comment	Blanket Fort: A creepy scene involved Cole meeting the puking ghost girl in a blanket fort he built in his room.
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The Sixth Sense / int_e11720f9	type	Stood Up
The Sixth Sense / int_e11720f9	comment	Stood Up: Malcolm's anniversary with his wife. Turns out that it's because she's having dinner alone and Malcolm is a ghost.
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The Sixth Sense / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
The Sixth Sense / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Lynn has no idea what's wrong with her son, just that something is seriously off with him. And yet, during a nightmare, she begs Cole to tell her if someone is hurting him so she can kick their asses. Lynn also calls up the mother of one of the boys from the party and tells her to keep her son away from Cole.
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The Sixth Sense / int_e4eb20fa	type	Mandatory Twist Ending
The Sixth Sense / int_e4eb20fa	comment	Mandatory Twist Ending: Practically spawned the twist ending for the new millennium. Also a strange variant of The Ending Changes Everything: everything we saw previously is true, but much of it means something completely different from what it seemed to mean. Lampshaded when Malcolm is telling a bedtime story to the kid.
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The Sixth Sense / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
The Sixth Sense / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Despite her grisly death and throwing up at first, Kyra is determined to talk to Cole and ask for his help. It's because she wanted to give her father the videotape that showed her mother poisoning her lunch, and a puppet to her little sister.
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The Sixth Sense / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
The Sixth Sense / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Kyra's mother, who repeatedly poisoned her with floor cleaner to gain sympathy, and is implied to be doing the same thing with her younger sister.
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The Sixth Sense / int_e8a56ee7	type	Steven Ulysses Perhero
The Sixth Sense / int_e8a56ee7	comment	Steven Ulysses Perhero: Cole Sear. As in Seer.
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The Sixth Sense / int_edd312d3	type	Münchausen Syndrome
The Sixth Sense / int_edd312d3	comment	MÃ¼nchausen Syndrome: Munchausen by Proxy. We learn that a mother sickened her daughter with floor cleaner in order to get sympathy from family and friends.
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The Sixth Sense / int_f174d8e8	comment	Trying Not to Cry: In the ending, Cole has tears in his eyes as he is giving Malcolm advice about how to talk to his wife. He knows that once Malcolm realizes that he's dead that Malcolm will move on, and Cole will never see him again.
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The Sixth Sense / int_f275ee5f	comment	Dead Sparks: Malcolm and his wife. Literally. Every scene where she's seemingly pulling an "ignoring you" scheme is just that she literally doesn't knows he's there, being a ghost and all.
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The Sixth Sense / int_fd16495f	comment	Answer Cut: Used when Cole says to Malcolm, "I see dead people", it not only cuts to Malcolm, who is dead, but slowly zooms in on him. At first, the filmmakers didn't even want to include this shot, fearing it might give away the ending.
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The Sixth Sense / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Dramatic version. During one of Malcolm's first visits to Cole's house, Cole tells his mom a false story about how he had a good day at school that culminated in all his classmates picking him up and carrying him around on their shoulders. During Malcolm's last visit to Cole, at the end of the film, Cole's classmates actually do pick him up and carry him around on their shoulders (as part of the school play, but still, that he got that part in the play is a sign of how much his interactions with them have improved).
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The Sixth Sense / int_fecc7486	comment	Trick Dialogue: Used several times as part of the big twist. For instance, the anniversary dinner scene, where it appears that Anna is giving Malcolm the cold shoulder while he attempts to apologise for arriving late, but it turns out after the twist that she simply wasn't aware of his presence.
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