Day 10 - Ghost
- Wing Chun Vampire
- Jul 26, 2024
- 2 min read
The last film I watched was The Sixth Sense. It's an amazing, beautifully orchestrated movie that brought me to tears by the end. A tip of the hat to M. Night Shyamalan. There are spoilers ahead, so unless you have watched the film, don't plan to, or don't mind spoilers, I advise you pick something else to read.
Onto it, then! The Sixth Sense greatly involves a boy Cole who can see the dead, who are unaware that they are deceased, unable to see each other, only seeing what they want to see. The story itself, however, follows Doctor Malcom Crowe, child psychiatrist's journey in finding out that when he got shot by one of his ex-patients who could also see specters, one that blamed him for not being able to fix him, Vincent Grey, the previous year, he never survived. Morbid? I suppose so. I'll spare you the details, and skip right to my review/analysis.
The story starts witch Dr. Crowe celebrating an award he received for his service in the care of children's mental health from the state of Philadelphia late at night. As they retire to call it a day, one of his former patients, Vincent Grey, who is resentful towards the doctor for being unable to help him, breaks into his house and shoots him, killing him, although the latter fact is not revealed until the end of the film.
The next fall, Dr. Crowe is assigned to a boy, you guessed it, COLE, who is just like Vincent. To make up for his mistakes with Vincent Grey, he works to the bone to try and help Cole, eventually finding out his strange ability, which enabled him to discover that he wasn't quite a human anymore.
As I have previously stated, the movie was excellent, leaving no plot holes or significant unanswered questions, except these...
What happens to ghosts once they pass on? Or do they even? Once they realise they're dead, do they stay in that state, or do they move on to a different afterlife? Does everyone turn in to a ghost once they die? If everybody who ever died turned into a ghost and stayed that way, there would be a hell lot of them.
I guess we'll never know.
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