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It’s All Right When Everything Goes Wrong
When times get tough, I try to look on the bright side and count my blessings. I don’t feel so bad about the social distancing and isolation right now in part because the last year has been so hard for … Continue reading
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Tagged disaster movies, films, m night shyamalan, mel gibson, movies, personal, science fiction, signs, videos
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Why The Sixth Sense’s Twist Works
I once heard someone criticize The Sixth Sense saying that there’s no way Dr. Malcolm Crowe could have gone for a long period of time without noticing that no one ever made eye contact with him or talked to him … Continue reading
Posted in Random Stuff
Tagged film endings, films, m night shyamalan, movie review, movies, the sixth sense
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What a Twist! The Sixth Sense Is a Symmetrical Film
The Sixth Sense has one of the most memorable and famous twist endings of all time. But once its secret is revealed is there any mystery left to the film? It turns out that The Sixth Sense does have at … Continue reading
Posted in Cinematic Chiasmus
Tagged chiasmus, death, drama, films, horror, m night shyamalan, movie review, movies, scary movies, the sixth sense
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The Surprising Parallels of Christopher Nolan and M. Night Shyamalan
The careers of Christopher Nolan and M. Night Shyamalan are on inverted trajectories. The greater Nolan rises, the lower Shyamalan falls. Their films have a surprising amount in common with each other, in terms of subject matter, but Nolan just … Continue reading
Movie Matchups: The Sixth Sense vs. Ghost
Don’t you just love that sleeper hit from the 1990s about a ghost who stays on earth after he dies to try to help the people he cares about? Which movie am I talking about: either 1999’s The Sixth Sense … Continue reading
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Tagged 1990s, bruce willis, comedy, death, demi moore, drama, films, ghost, haley joel osment, halloween, m night shyamalan, movie review, movies, patrick swayze, relationships, romance, scary movies, spiritual, supernatural, the sixth sense, TV shows, whoopi goldberg
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