The Sixth Sense (1999)

The Sixth Sense is a 1999 supernatural thriller film, written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. But if anyone asks about a horror or thriller movie recommendation, I won't be suggesting based on these two particular genres because it couldn't serve me satisfactorily on these requirements. But yeah, I would suggest it as a psychological drama, a good one to watch with a little bit of spice of horror and thrill.

The movie starts with a scene of a couple who are going to celebrate their special moment, one of whom was a psychologist and he received an award for his work. Unexpectedly they got a visitor, one of his ex-patients, who seems to be still uncured and he shoots the psychologist and then shoots himself. Thriller movies are common to start like this, an incident from the past that drags the rest of the story and unfolds mysteries one after another, so I was hooked to see unwrapping the next moves.

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Okay, let's move on, in the next scene we see Malcolm Crowe, our child psychologist who has been shot in the previous scene, is sitting on a bench while waiting for his new patient named Cole Sear, a boy of nine years old, our key character. Ah, he was seeing the reports of Vincent, that ex-patient who shot Malcolm before, and then he opened Cole Sear's case file. And the story begins.

The problem with the boy is he always stays scared and acts strangely, and he doesn't share his actual problem with anybody. His parents got divorced so things are very hard for his mother, he lives with his mom, yet she handles these pretty well. I was astonished on seeing her, how she managed situations even after seeing her son's strange behavior. Malcolm sees the similarity between Cole and Vincent's case so he wants to fulfill that lacking through helping Cole. But it was hard to win Cole's trust to make him speak about his problems and when he shared, it was again hard to believe for Malcolm that Cole can see ghosts, they visit him to make him do something and that's why he always stays scared because of their existence around him.

The movie had some horror scenes too that makes the story real from Cole's side as we didn't know yet if he was true or just his sickness. Spoiler alert, jump to the next paragraph if you want. Well, after the discovery of this virtue as real for him, Malcolm tries to help him to get along with this virtue, to overcome his fear and serve as he should.

Well, if I want to talk about the overall impression I would say average, not so thrilled, or not so terrifying with the horror scenes. It was a normal drama moving gradually. Those who have already watched or those who haven't, trust me the ending was marvelous to make this movie memorable in our memories, to change my overall impression instantly, I think that was the key twist for this movie to be worth watching. I don't wanna give spoilers again as it would spoil the fun but still I wanna say that It reminded me of the ending from Shutter Island, sorry! If you can then figure out the maze, hehe. Well, I was impressed with the boy's character, he did too well. His every expression kept me hooked until the last scenes, which took it out of the crowd.

Happy Watching!