Film: The Sixth Sense

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The Sixth Sense: Supernatural and Unknown What? Confused, have no clue? Something that one cannot understand unless they experience it. The Sixth Sense, Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan, released in 1999, incorporates this cultural fear of not knowing what is happening, or what will happen next. The 1990’s were the era of the unknown and suspense era. The Sixth Sense true its era incorporates these themes. This era of creating film did not only exist in the genre of horror films, but also many other films. During the 90’s films like: the Titanic, Harry Potter and so on and so forth. Similarly most films of the 90’s have the same underlying plot. The fear of not knowing what is going to happen next. Which suggest that during the 90’s people …show more content…

In The Sixth sense in a like manner, lighting is used to obstruct the viewers thought process. In the scene where Malcom is shot, the angle in which the scene is shot and the lighting in which it is shot differs from the previous scene. The darkness or the “noir” of the scene is used to invoke fear and tension for this specific scene. The lighting directly on the face of Dr. Malcom’s wife’s shows that something is wrong, she has a real fear. The viewer then gets to see the room from Malcom’s perceptive. Malcom’s perceptive is shot from a different angle, the audience now gets a glance at the whole room. The room is in a disarray. During this shot the viewer is seeing things from the prospective of Malcom. Visually the shot is wobbly and uneven. The audience now feels involved in what is taking place. The viewer is now in the position to feel what Malcom is feeling, the emotions and the fear. This camera work stimulates the mind, putting one in the scene with Malcom. Now the the viewer is more involved or feels the anxieties behind what Malcom is going though. The viewer is now anticipating what is going to happen next. The scene is cut now the view is again seeing things from the perspective of Malcom’s wife Anna. Anna is screaming at the top of her lunges. This scene is even darker and has extremely low lighting. Although the screams are used to invoke fear, the screams from Anna also make the audience want to find out what is next to come. As the shot continues, the viewer see that Anna and Malcom are trapped inside of their room. There is also irony behind being trapped inside of one’s own home. The home that one lives in is supposed to be a safe haven. This scene also forms connect directly to the viewer. This scene serves the purpose of connecting reality to the pictorial scenery, this too could happen in an everyday ordinary life

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