"The Sixth Sense" Kyra’s Funeral and the Value of the Hidden Camera
One of the best psychological thrillers of all time is the story of Cole Sear, played by Haley Joel Osment, who is a young boy with many troubles who can see and talk to dead people. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Bruce Willis as Dr. Malcolm Crowe the psychologist who helps him.
Once Dr. Crowe suggests that Cole try to communicate with these ghosts and see what they want from him, he takes the opportunity to talk to Kyra’s ghost. She shows up in his room and vomits in his tent. He later finds out where Kyra lives and that she had been sick before she died. Her little sister was starting to get sick too.
Kyra’s ghost gives him a box that has a videotape in it. The video tape reveals Kyra’s stepmother putting some cleaner fluid in her food. This poisoning by the step mother is a mental condition and a form of child abuse. The mother poisons the children to get attention for herself. When the video plays, the grieving father and everyone there for the funeral sees the guilty stepmother. She is standing there in red as it symbolizes “anything in the real world has been tainted by the other world.” According to M. Night Shyamalan “rules and clues.”
The image of the stepmother standing there as if she has done nothing, innocently supporting her grieving husband smiling and being a hostess as if she is the center of attention of a party.
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