WOW, it's a horror movie. When the teacher mentioned in class, I actually feel exciting rather than afraid. The sixth sense is a 1999 American horror drama film directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starred by Haley Joel Osment and Bruce Wills. This movie is about a boy named Cole Sear who has an abnormal power where he can see dead people and communicate with them normally. Because of this, he was suffering from social depression and mental illness. He feels like being isolated by society. He met a child psychologist, Malcolm Crowe who try to help him against the problems. Before that, Malcolm has a kid patient named Vincent Grey, he failed to help him and shot him when he has grown up. Malcolm felt guilty about Vincent's death so he helped Cole to expiate so that he can feel better. After gets along with each other, Cole was willing to tell Malcolm his secret which he can see and communicate with dead people. Malcolm believed him and he found the solution for Cole. Cole becomes more cheerful while Malcolm has completed his wish. He says goodbye to his wife and leaves reluctantly, It was so touching when both of them have their last conversation.
There are many genres that I have to learn during the lecture. A genre can be classified as it is a film type that categorizing or grouping films. To categorize film, Rick Altman has come out with two methods, semantic and syntactic approach. The semantic approach is a list of common traits and attitudes, characters, shows, locations, sets that bring us to very much the visual aspects of the film. Visuals are included mise-en-scene of the location, makeup and costumes, lighting, actor's behavior, and movement. The syntactic approach is constitutive relationships between undesignated and variable characters, bringing us to very much the thematic aspects of the film. Syntactic is derived from the narrative of the film such as the type of characters, ideologies, and structures. Both of these two approaches must complement each other and used them together.
The main genre that uses in this film is horror. Horror is a genre of friction where it purposely creates feelings of fear, dread, repulsion, and terror to the audience. It makes the audience afraid through the imaginary and wording even through their minds. There are few sub-genres implicated in this film, supernatural, thriller and psychological. These three genres had shown a great effect and make this film become more interesting.
In this film, it uses lightning to increase the sense of fear. One of the scenes Cole's is hiding inside the red tent as he noticed there was something around him. The lightning focused on his face makes the audience know that actually, Cole was very scared. He was shivering and breathing rapidly. While some of the scenes, it has close up to Cole's facial expression. He went to bed and covered himself tightly with his blanket. He was sobbing pitifully and looks meager. Makeup and costumes were pretty good where they had played an important role in this film. When Kyra Collins appear under her bed, the makeup on her face was quite scary. The film stylish has put many foundations so that her face looks pale. Her eyes circles darker and her lips color is black. It shows that she already dead. Her costume with a light blue dress revealed she was intelligent, obedient and kind. This film chose to shoot at a church in which Cole met Malcolm for the first time. They then started their conversation and know each other secret.
Lighting Facial Expression
Makeup & costume Setting
Let us discussed the five horror scenes in this film that scared me, to be honest. The first scene happens at the beginning of the film. Malcolm was celebrating with his wife, Anna for he as been received an award commendation of his professional excellence. After celebrating, both of them having fun in their room and they accidentally realized their things sprinkled all over the floor. There has some creepy sound from the bathroom and Malcolm slowly walked near to it. A man named Vincent Grey looks miserable then appeared. He feels that he was deceit by Malcolm when he was still a kid. In order to wreak his anger, he shot Malcolm and killed himself. His unstable motions make me feels scary.
The second scene happens in the midnight where Cole was urgently needed to go to the toilet. When he is peeing, a person walked passed through behind him. He slowly turned back and his facial expression tells me that he probably knows what is going to happen. Then, he dragging heavy steps to the kitchen and he saw a woman was doing stuff in the kitchen. He thought that she was her mum. But when the woman turned her head, she talked rudely to Cole and scolded him impatiently. The makeup of the woman actually freaks me out as it looks more real to show that she had already died.
Thirdly, Cole was watching a stage show with Malcolm. When they were walking back home with a conversation, Cole stopped his pace and he was looking at a place with stairs. Malcolm felt curious about his actions so he comes forward asked Cole what happened. Cole told him that there were three dead people hanging up there. When the scene closes up to the three dead people, it frightened me due to their expression. I have nothing to say about that because when I saw it I covered my eyes at the first timing.
Furthermore, Cole met another boy who is walking into his room. I thought that the boy is Cole's friend and he talks to Cole a few sentences. When he turned his head, I'm totally stunned as the boy actually was a ghost. There is a huge hole behind his head and the wound is bleeding seriously. It was very terrible and disgusting when the camera closes up behind his head. The makeup was professional and it has revealed the dread of the scene.
Last but not least, Cole heard some weird sound and he sensed something wrong around him. He was highly tensioned at that moment. He immediately hides in a red tent to escape from the ghost. But truly unlucky, the tent opened and a girl named Kyra Collins appeared beside her vomiting kind of disgusting thing. Not only this, she then covered herself with a red cloth. Cole took off the cloth and it is the same person. The sound effect threatens me the most when the scene keeps nearer to the red cloth. This is the scene that I feel the scariest for me because it was continuously filming the horror scene.
I like the ending where Malcolm finally has the chance to meet his wife. It shows Malcolm loved his wife very much and he was grudge to leave his wife. Although Anna did not know Malcolm was just beside her, I believed that she had felt it. Both of them showed true love and their faithful relationship. I will recommend this movie because this is the least horrible horror movie that I have been watched despite there still some scenes that scared me.
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A Semantic/Syntactic Approach by Rick Altman
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