One of the few reasons why I didn’t like film school was that it’d ruin the perception of some of my favorite movies. I used to love The Sixth Sense. I still really like it,  ur when I went to film school we had an entire class where we dissected The Sixth Sense and dug deep into the script and realized that it actually wasn’t well written; especially the first scene. The first scene wreaks of terrible exposition. And so does other moments wrinkled throughout the movie. And that’s typically M Night Shyamalan’s biggest weakest, is exposition. I’ve noticed it in many of his other movies as well. 

The Sixth Sense is saved by its twist, which many consider to be one of the most famous twists of all time. The movie is pretty mediocre until then, but that’s mainly because it has to set itself up for the big finale. I wish I could go back to watching this for the first time, not knowing of the twist and being shocked all over again. 

I do have some unanswered questions resolving the twist given things we have seen but aren’t shown. Like with the fact that Malcolm is dead, we see scenes where that start off with him in the same room with somebody. Like a scene begins with Bruce Willis sitting across from Toni Collette. They aren’t interacting but we just assume they did before the scene began. But for Malcolm, you’d think that he himself would be aware of having no interaction beforehand. It’s Mostly like Shyamalan is playing the mind games with us and not with the character. I know Cole says that the dead typically don’t realize they’re dead but I would think the character Malcolm would notice these things. Therefore, I feel like the twist only works within the minds of the audience and not within the story itself, which is fine. It’s still a great twist. I just feel like it was constructed a little more cleverly in that aspect  

It’s still a great movie but these were just some little things that got me thinking during this rewatch.