The Sixth Sense

Have you ever wondered who those people are who critic your favorite movie and only give it 3 stars!! Well those are film critics and in this essay I critiqued the film,” The Sixth Sense.” In the movie Bruce Willis plays a Dr. Malcolm Crowe who is a psychiatrist for kids. He is married to Anna Crowe (Olivia Williams) and has just won a reward for helping kids. He gets home and Vincent Gray (Donnie Wahlberg), now a full grown adult has showed up in his bed room because he broke in. He says that he didn’t help him when he was a kid and shot him. Then Malcolm goes back to work. The first kid he works with is Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) who is a troubled young boy and is just like Vincent, who’s mother (Lynn Sear played by Toni Collette) doesn’t know his secret. Cole eventually trusts Malcolm enough to tell him his secret… the famous line,” I see dead people.” This leads Cole and Bruce through many talks and experiences. Bruce tells Cole to talk to the ghost and find out what they want and they will leave him a lone. When Cole talks to a little girl poisoned by her mother she asks him to give things to her sister and show her dad the tape of her mom poisoning her. They go to her funeral and do as the ghost asked them. Bruce eventually tells Cole to tell his mother, which he does in the car. Also Bruce eventually discovers what has been going on with himself and his wife for a while in the end. The three topics I will have in my essay are Screenplay, Cinematography, and Acting.
Screenplay is a little section (scene) from a script for a film including dialogue and descriptions of the characters and set. In the movie,” The Sixth Sense,” there is a part where Cole and his teacher Mr. Cunningham (Bruce Norris) argue. Cole raised his hand to answer a question and he answered it because he saw ghost… he said it was a place people were hung. The teacher said it was wrong that it was a judicial court house. They argued and Cole started calling him Stuttering Stanley, which was his nickname in school. In this scene Cole was sitting at his desk in the last row of desks, in the left corner from the teacher’s perspective and the teacher was in the front of the classroom. When they started arguing the teacher started moving towards the back until he finally said enough and hit the desk really loud. I think this scene was very well placed. The hole design of the words and actions combined was astounding in my point of view. Another screenplay was when Dr. Malcolm and the kid were playing a game where if the doctor got some thing right about Cole he would step towards the chair and if he made it to the chair he would talk to the doctor. If the doctor got it wrong he could take a step back and if he made back to where he was he could leave. Cole told the doctor if his answers of his life were right or wrong and was a step away from the chair but the doctor started getting them wrong and Cole told him maybe he should do more then just observe his patients. Dr. Malcolm was sitting in a chair in the living room of Cole’s house with a chair right in front of it. Cole was standing in the door way and was about 8 steps from the chair, with a plant right next to the doorway out. I think this was a good talk between Dr. Malcolm and Cole and the Set in the Screenplay went perfectly with the dialogue. Another Screenplay is Dr. Malcolm is talking to Cole in Cole’s school after his play. Cole sees some dead people hanging in the stair way and stops in his tracks. The doctor stops and asked what’s wrong and the kid tells him what he sees and feels. Cole in this scene is standing in the middle of an empty hallway and the doctor is standing is standing next to him as the kid tells him what’s happening. The people hanging are at the top of the stair case right by Cole. I think this was a good visual scene as well as a good dialogue scene with Cole and the doctor.
Cinematography is the art or technique of motion-picture photography. In the movie,” The Sixth Sense,” there is a part where Cole is about to enter the school after first meeting Dr. Malcolm and the bell to go into school had just rang. The camera is in the sky (it’s a sky view) and Cole is standing in the middle of the road and the school is in front of Cole. I think this a good use of cinematography, by showing Cole not wanting to go school and being an outsider. Another good cinematography moment was when Cole was going up the stairs at a kid’s party. It was a sky view and it had a view of the stairs and some of the party. This was a good shot because you could see what was going on with the party as well as what Cole was doing. Another good cinematography moment was when Cole tells Dr. Malcolm that he can see dead people. They were sitting in his school and the camera was going from one face to the other. This was a good use of cinematography because it made the moment when Cole told Dr. Malcolm he saw dead people more intense.
Acting is the process of doing or performing something in a movie or play. In the movie,” The Sixth Sense,” there is a scene where Cole and his teacher Mr. Cunningham argue about the history of his school. The kids’ acting was very good. He went from a shy little boy who sat in the back of the class to a very aggressive argumentative child. The teacher also did well from being a nice surprised teacher to a teacher holding back anger to a teacher exploding. Another good acting scene was when Dr. Malcolm was talking to Cole about the game. Dr. Malcolm was very calm and nice and kept a steady attitude through out the movie. Cole went form a little shy kid scared to play the game to a very confident and aggressive kid. The last and final scene I wished to critic was the acting scene when Cole tells Dr. Malcolm his secret. Doctor Malcolm was very respectful in listening to Cole, but turned too acted like he was ignoring what Cole was saying. Cole was very persistent in his scared, shy, I don’t trust you mood. He also was good when he was scared and finally said he would trust Dr. Malcolm.
In conclusion, I believe,” The Sixth Sense,” was an enjoyable movie. Also it had a lot of great points in it‘s acting, cinematography, and screenplay. In the end Malcolm helps Cole and figures out what’s wrong with him. To know what happens in the end you have to watch the movie… I’m not going to tell you what happens!