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The Sixth Sense (Techniques (Symbolism (Red (symbolism) (Appears whenever…

- - - - Appears whenever the real world and the spiritual world collide
    - - Ghosts lower the temperature around them. Particularly when they are angry
        
        The cold is often used to symbolism death and the living character often struggle to deal with the cold around them. This could also symbolise their grieving
    - - Both protagonists are struggling to communicate with their loved ones. They only begin to improve their lives once they first begin begin communicating with the dead. After this, they get better at speaking to the living.
        
        Even some of the ghosts plead in Latin, a dead language. Like the living characters, the ghost also struggle with communication
    - - Cole's wears his dad's glasses with the lenses popped out. Others might see this as weird or strange, but Cole wears them for a reason. They also symbolise the idea that Cole can see/perceive things others cannot, but that people will not believe him.
    - - Cole wears this watch that his father forgot (not left him). At first, this symbolises his inability to let go of that relationship. At the end of the film, Cole no longer wears the watch, and says goodbye to Malcolm in a healthy and mature way. Cole has overcome his grief at losing his dad because now he has grown from someone else's mentoring and he feels ready to say goodbye.
    - - the religious building and items provide Cole with some sanctuary, but no long lasting relief. They are helpful, but not solutions to his problems.
  - - - Interestingly, the camera never lingers on gore or shows the actual incidents of violence in the movie. Instead, the director implies violence through sound, lighting or mise-en-scene. The means the audience is most scared when they don't see the source of the fear, and that the audience actually starts to see the sources as less scary once they see them (Kyra)
    - - These shots are used to make ghosts scarier to the audience, to exaggerate the power and danger characters represent in certain themes.
    - - These shots are used to make characters appear weak. As the audience often relates to Cole, when the camera makes Cole look vulnerable, we feel vulnerable
  - - - Malcolm never wears a different dress shirt. He just puts different things on top.
        
        This could represent that he still can't move on from his failure at helping Vincent.
      - Both Cole and Vincent has white in their in their hair
      - Even when Cole wears the uniform, the director makes sure he looks different compared to all the other students. Cole is supposed to look like an outsider. The only exception to this is at the end of play, after Cole begins to feel like he is no longer an outcast
      - After the Malcolm's death, Anna always wears a shade of red. She has not gotten over Malcolm's death yet. Even her anti-depressants are bright red (medication is never bright red. It looks too much like a lolly).
    - - High contrast
    - - Characters are positioned in certain way that leads the audience to make incorrect assumptions.
        
        This use of positioning is another example of how communication (in this case visual) can be misinterpreted
  - - - Begins: Frail, weak, scared, anxious, loner, outcast
        
        The end: more confident, better communicator, makes friends, less anxious, braver
    - - Kind, smart, confident, not as good at communicating as he thinks
        
        Humble, better at communicating, more empathetic, more percpetive
- - - - Kyra couldn't tell anyone she was being poisoned, so she had to film herself secretly. She then had to communicate the cause of her death through a medium. Unlike other ghosts, Kyra knew she was dead. Her struggle was about communicating.
- - - - Malcolm can only move on with his life after he redeems himself for his two biggest failures; not helping Vincent and not valuing his marriage