I just watched this for the first time, and it's either the absolute best film I've ever seen or one of the worsts. I can't quite describe what it is about this film, but I find it so hard to categorise or describe in any way. I had such a unique reaction to it, that I've never had to any other film. It lacks the scale of many Kubrick films, yet it never feels any less powerful than The Shining or 2001.
I think this comes as a result of the film appearing to have two different stories occurring at once, the literal and the symbolic. However, in order to uncover the symbolic prior knowledge or research is necessary. Is this good filmmaking? Should a film contain it's story entirely within its own context or should it extend to people's understanding of certain subjects such as cults and rituals?
I think this comes as a result of the film appearing to have two different stories occurring at once, the literal and the symbolic. However, in order to uncover the symbolic prior knowledge or research is necessary. Is this good filmmaking? Should a film contain it's story entirely within its own context or should it extend to people's understanding of certain subjects such as cults and rituals?
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at the end of the Sixth Sense you find out the guy in the hair piece was Bruce Willis the whole time
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