The Sixth Sense is an American movie supernatural horror film which directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It released by Hollywood Pictures on August 6 in 1999 and received well in the review of the movie which the acting performance, atmosphere and twist conclusion in the movie. In 1999, as the second-highest-grossing film, it earns about $293 million in the United State and $379 million in other markets. It became the highest-grossing horror film until 2017.
This movie used lots of film techniques to categorized as a horror film. First of all, what is a horror film? The horror film is a genre of movie that makes the audiences elicit fear. In order to achieve this effect, the film director will use the place that familiar for the audience like washroom, bedroom, elevator and others as the space that to cut in some film techniques that related to the horror genre. For example, in The Sixth Sense, Cole sees the ghost passing and talking to him in the corridor of the house. It will make some of the audience links this sense to their daily life, which has a similar place in their house. As the horror movie, the most famous technique will be used in horror movie is jump scare, which is the technique that to scared or catch the attention of the audience by surprising them with an abrupt change in image or event, usually it will be accompanied by a loud and frightening sound. In The Sixth Sense, there have some of the scenes that used this technique. For example, when Crowe stayed with her wife for observing the broken window in their house, the shadow of the shadow of the figure passing the room suddenly. It had successfully for scaring and catch the attention of the audiences. In addition, the lighting of the scape also as important in the horror film. The audience can notice that the horror scene will only appear in the dark and gloomy place compare to other scenes. It will help to increase the feeling of scary. Due to the other scene, for example, the harmony scene is lighter and clear. The audience can feel very comfortable. The dark and gloomy of the space will give the audience a feeling of cool and forlorn. Next is about the background music. Background music has been the importance element until nowadays. The right use of background music(BGM) will make the audience have a sense about the ambience. It let the audiences involved in the scene in the movie.
This movie was talking about the child psychologist, Dr. Malcolm Crowe who helped lots of children to help Cole Sear, who able to see and talk to the dead people. At the beginning of the story, the teenager appears in the room of Crowe and started to accuse Crowe of failing him. The teenager is one of his previous patients, Vincent Grey. Vincent shot Crowe and killing himself. The next fall, Crowe start to work with other patients, who is the main character of the story, Cole Sear. Crowe doubted himself that didn't have the ability to help Cole. However, he tried to help Cole, and he got Cole trust. Cole told his secret to Crowe, which was he can see the dead people, mean ghost. Cole decides to face the problem and start to learn live with the ghosts. He also begins to fit in his school compare to early of the story and become the main character in the school play. At the end of the story, Cole was resolved all of the problems, and Crowe noticed that he was already dead, caused by the shooting of Vincent, he wasn't ignored by his wife, the fact was his wife can't saw him.
In my observation, the film techniques used in this movie is very well. About the first things talking about in the second paragraph, the use of the space is base on the internal thinking of the audience. What of the places can relate to daily life? What of the space that audiences usually stay off? So that why 10 of the horror movie, 8 of them the ghost or the scary scene will appear in the washroom. About the next technique is jump scare. In this movie, the director hadn't used this technique from time to time. So it created the best of the effect, catch the attention of the audience on time. If a movie uses this technique from time to time, the audiences will get bored because they have already numbness for the scene. Background music, which is BGM used in this film also very nice, the BGM is suitable in all of the scene, the scary scene, warming scene and others. If the wrong use of BGM will create a weird effect, what will happen if the scary scene with action BGM? It will be very weird and not suitable.
In conclusion, it is a very nice and interesting movie. What surprised me the most is about the ending which is the ending of Dr Malcolm Crowe. Although it is a horror movie, it has some of the subgenres apply in this movie. This makes the movie become more interesting and have a good storyline compare to some of the movies, it does not only focus on the scary scene in the movie.
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