灵异第六感影评 英文版.doc

May 23, 2012American FilmThe Sixth SenseI think the main theme of this movie is communication. The main object in this movie is ghost and that is something nobody can see except Cole.At the beginning of this movie, Malcolm and Cole cannot even communicate with each other affectively. Because on the one hand, Cole thinks Malcolm is just another ghost who does not even know himself is already a dead man, and still thinks he is a doctor who is trying to finish his job. On the other hand, Malcolm thinks Cole is a boy got some kind of school age schizophrenia.H e thinks that if he can cure Cole, it is going to be a console for the failure patient he made who tries to kill him and suicide himself last year, Vincent. However, Malcolm cannot see ghosts. Therefore, he cannot help Cole to deal with the fear of ghosts. There is no trust and belief between them. So, that is why when Cole first saw Malcolm cross the street, he runs fast into the church trying to avoid Malcolm. Also, that is why when Cole told Malcolm that he can see dead people, in the hospital, Malcolm does not believe in what he said; instead, he understand this as a major sign of paranoia. Also, this communication problem happened between Cole and his mother too. Cole trys hard to get his mother to understand him, but it did not succeed until the very last scene. For example, when they were having lunch, Coles mother asked Cole did he take his grandmothers bumble bee pen. Cole answered no, and he said: “sometimes, people think they lose things. They really did not lose them, it just gets moved.” What Cole really wants to tell his mother is his grandmother is not gone, she still exists, and she is the one who put the bumble bee pen into Coles room. However, his mother thought Cole is the one who took the bumble bee pen and put it into his room every time, hes statement is just an excuse to avoid telling the truth, his mother still think he is the one who took the bumble bee pen. Therefore, this conversation ends up in an upset way.However, when Malcolm was listening to the tape which records the conversation with Vincent, he accidently found there is a ghost speaking Spanish in the tape. So he started to believe what Cole said is real, and went back to the Church to find Cole and tell him the right way to deal with this kind of ghost problem is by listening to the ghost, and help them if he can. Therefore, this is a very important part in the movie, because this is the turning point where Malcolm and Cole actually communicate with each other based on trust and belief. In the very last of the sense, Cole and his mother sit in the car, and he told his mother that his grandmother went to see her dance which his mom thought she would not going to see when she was little, than, he told his mother the answer to the question she asked in front of his grandmothers grave every day, which is the answer of do I make you pride? This is very important, because this is also a turning point, the turning point of Cole and his mothers communication. After this conversation, Coles mother believes Cole can see ghost and understand how much Cole suffered from the scare ghosts and the misunderstanding caused by her, such as the misunderstanding of the “bumble bee pen”. All the unmoral actions and behavior of his son started to make sense. I think this turning point between Cole and his mother also changed the audiences view of ghost not all the ghosts are scary, some of the ghosts are quite cute, such as Coles grandmoth