The Sixth Sense

I'm not entirely sure just how many times I've seen this movie before, but it must be said that I love it for many different reasons. The event that brings us to watch it this time is that I was going to be meeting some friends out camping in the mountains, so i figured bring a ghost story. We watched it on my laptop while sitting around the campfire. It was really quite nice. Perhaps what I love most of all about the work of M. Night Shyamalan is how he treats texture and colour, almost like they are characters of the movie aswell. Plus you add in Bruce Willis. For his reputation as an action hero he has, underneith, an excellent talent at conveying the emotions of stress, confusion, and loss. I've always apreciated how generally mature and professional his characters are. He may not be Ben Kingsley, but that's why there's only one Ben Kingsley. I enjoy this movie because it allows itself to be a story, to have a point, and let the action tell that story, make that point, rather than say to itself "we havn't seen enough ghosts, there havn't been enough spooky moments, we need to add more in." It's ghosts aren't supernatural beings with a malice towards humanity, they are everyday people who havn't left yet. If they are frightening, malicious, angry, or vengeful, it is because those are the things that we allow ourselves to become while we are alive.

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