13 Movie Moments That Surprised The Hell Out Of The Audience
5. It's Only Obvious On The Second Viewing - The Sixth Sense
Director M. Night Shyamalan has been pilloried for his bad films: from The Village onward, his films have gotten such consistently bad reviews that its almost become a cliché, and it's almost enough to make us almost forget that his first big hit, The Sixth Sense, rocked the world upon its release in 1999. The well-versed long and short of the story following "gifted" and troubled Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) and child psychologist Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) is that in helping Cole find out his duty to the ghosts (which, when you think about it, seems a remarkably odd thing to put on a child), Crowe finds out he's been dead all along. If you watch the extras on the DVD, they point out the clues that Shyamalan used to indicate which characters were alive or dead: selective use of the color red; Crowes clothes; scenes where Crowe is in the frame with living people but does not interact with them, and it's like a slap in the face. But that doesnt mean that it didnt blow your mind when you realized that Crowe was dead for the whole film.
