"Then she'll listen to you and not even know it."
Also watched The Sixth Sense today since it came from Netflix!
I haven't seen any of M. Night's other movies, but this is probably the best one. It's incredibly intricate and beautifully executed. It's at times creepy and at others incredibly emotional. Perhaps a lot of the creepiness was lost on me because it's such an old movie and I already knew what happened in it. I mostly found it more touching and emotional (I cried like you have no idea) than frightening, though they tried very hard with the "ghosts" that Cole saw.
What I loved was just how hard it must have been to film the whole thing. Anna's part had to be the hardest to play, since she was acting on two different layers the whole time. Of course, everyone else was as well, but not nearly to the same extent as she was. Putting together all the rules of the way ghosts worked and all the little clues that led up to the final reveal was also very thoughtful, and though I'm not the type to go back and watch again for that specific purpose, I could see how enjoyable it would be for some people to go back and see it again.
There were some moments in which the logic of the film failed me. For example, I seriously thought I'd missed some chapters when the time shift from visiting Kyra's funeral to the King Arthur play happened. How did that one incident fix everything else? If the ghosts used to actually hurt Cole, why did they stop? Why did they hurt him to start with? Does the fact that they "see what they want to see" explain why Malcolm seemed to understand that time was passing but other ghosts didn't?
Nevertheless, it was actually a very good film and I really enjoyed it. Plus Bruce Willis in a movie that wasn't action. Come on.
I haven't seen any of M. Night's other movies, but this is probably the best one. It's incredibly intricate and beautifully executed. It's at times creepy and at others incredibly emotional. Perhaps a lot of the creepiness was lost on me because it's such an old movie and I already knew what happened in it. I mostly found it more touching and emotional (I cried like you have no idea) than frightening, though they tried very hard with the "ghosts" that Cole saw.
What I loved was just how hard it must have been to film the whole thing. Anna's part had to be the hardest to play, since she was acting on two different layers the whole time. Of course, everyone else was as well, but not nearly to the same extent as she was. Putting together all the rules of the way ghosts worked and all the little clues that led up to the final reveal was also very thoughtful, and though I'm not the type to go back and watch again for that specific purpose, I could see how enjoyable it would be for some people to go back and see it again.
There were some moments in which the logic of the film failed me. For example, I seriously thought I'd missed some chapters when the time shift from visiting Kyra's funeral to the King Arthur play happened. How did that one incident fix everything else? If the ghosts used to actually hurt Cole, why did they stop? Why did they hurt him to start with? Does the fact that they "see what they want to see" explain why Malcolm seemed to understand that time was passing but other ghosts didn't?
Nevertheless, it was actually a very good film and I really enjoyed it. Plus Bruce Willis in a movie that wasn't action. Come on.