Many people say that they will believe something is true and that it exists, only when they see it with their own eyes. I used to be one of those people and sometimes I still am. When I was younger, my parents would explain this phenomenon by saying that you cannot see electricity and you cannot see air but they both still exist. My rebuttal was usually that maybe you cannot see them but you can either feel them, like air (which you could not live without), or you can see their effect, like a light turning on with electricity. The catch was usually with spirits, ghosts etc. Where as I don't believe in them because I cannot see them, hear them, smell them, taste them or even feel them, other people say they can. So, do they exist because some people believe in them or don’t they exist because I can’t feel them?
One of the great movies of the past couple of years is "The Sixth Sense". It was so good that when someone told me about the movie, I managed to get that eerie feeling associated with ghosts without even having seen it yet. The movie centres on a child psychologist, Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) and his new patient, 9-year-old Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment).
In the beginning scene, Malcolm and his wife Anna return home from an event in which Malcolm received an award for his work with children. They discover a very disturbed, nearly naked Vincent Grey in their bathroom wielding a gun. Vincent tells Malcolm, “I don’t want to be afraid any more” and Malcolm quickly realizes that Vincent was a patient of his as a child and that Vincent is upset at Malcolm for not having helped him. Vincent shoots Malcolm in the stomach and then shoots himself.
The following autumn, Malcolm starts working with Cole Sear. It appears that Cole is in a similar situation to Vincent. Dr. Crowe becomes dedicated to helping Cole and slowly gains his trust while his home life and his wife are starting to suffer and fall apart. Meanwhile, he is haunted by doubts over his ability to help Cole after his failed attempt to help Vincent.
Malcolm earns Cole’s trust and Cole ultimately confides in him. “I see dead people” he tells him. At first Malcolm is skeptical but he eventually comes to believe that Cole is telling the truth and that Vincent may have had the same ability, a “Sixth Sense”, the ability to see ghosts. Cole is very frightened, “I don’t want to be scared any more” Cole confesses. Malcolm suggests that he try to find a purpose for his gift by communicating with the ghosts and trying to aid them in their unfinished business so that they can move on.
Cole communicates with the ghost of a young girl who is violently ill in his room one night. Cole finds out where the girl, Kyra Collins (Mischa Barton), lived and goes to her house, where a funeral reception is being held for her. Kyra’s ghost gives Cole a videotape to give to her father. The tape reveals that when Kyra was confined to bed with illness, her mother was poisoning her food, which eventually led to her death. Now that Cole has helped her move on, Kyra can stop haunting and rest in peace.
For those of you who have not seen this movie, I do not want to ruin it and I highly recommend you watch it. I will just tell you that the end brings on such a twist, you never realise where it came from and it gives you that feeling of “Ah…Now everything is all in its right place in the world”.
The movie makes you think about the people you know that have died, whether they had any unfinished business or things to tell you. It also made me think about what I would do if I knew someone who said they could see ghosts. Would I believe them? Would you?
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