The Sixth Sense
Review by: Suzanne Horner
   

 
I did not have to leave the theatre, this flick did not disturb me and I think it serves KD right if she went out to a movie like this and got noticed. I was able to sit back and relax because wisely enough I went incognito (it was a bad hair day anyway). I did not know immediately that Bruce Willis's character was a spiritual entity, in fact, I waited right up to the end like everyone else and was thrilled with the surprise ending - catching the secret just prior to the rest of the audience. In my defense I must admit that my encounters with spiritual entities were not as involved as KD's while I was growing up, therefore I wasn't watching "my life all naked for everyone to see up on the big screen" as she did. I'm rather glad for that. I did cry a few times, but all in all I took the content better than my counterpart, KD.

My only problem with the movie is that they portrayed the deceased, as they were when they were killed. Entities don't actually do that. Entities appear to the viewer through telepathy. Generally speaking an entity often doesn't remember how it passed over or what condition its body was in. But, that's Hollywood. Of course they had to quickly let the viewer know the character was indeed deceased in an easily recognizable way, what better way than to have them bloody or decaying and blurred at the edges. While bloody bodies are acceptable in most horror movies I felt they could have done a better job regarding this. KD might have found this to be too close to home, but I loved it.


We both agree it has rewarding psychic information and that it is more realistic than average. We both also appreciated that they chose to loose a lot of the formulae Hollywood schtick commonly associated with a movie of this type and therefore the movie was not insulting to our psychic selves.