Also, I would like to observe when the son was sent to his room he was fine with that so called punishment because, as he said in the movie, he had everything he needed in his room. His TV and computer were up there and his family was not. I can see how his room is probably an escape for him. His room is also a place where he can escape to the internet to
To make things worse, he was taken away from his family after he witness his grandmother die. His grandmother literally died to protect him; yet,
The second night came, and it was hell. Noises came from the bathroom and as he gradually crept closer to the door he heard “Death is coming”. He began to believe in these stories but had no chance to turn back because like a gust of wind John was swept off his feet and brought into the bathroom and thrown against the wall. The mirror was in front of him, and as he began to gaze at himself he saw his skin become to pick off until he was just organs and muscle. He tried to run but only made his situation worse because a spirit disguised as an unholy creature grabbed his corpse and dragged him through the bounds of space and time, and what felt like a new dimension.
After the father breaks the bind that kept him to his trauma, it could be assumed that he lived the rest of his life with his
Even though the son killed his father, it’s worse than running away from your own father.
Both sons are taken through the Awakening of Moral
This is proved when the story states that “‘you little limb of satan, come out; for if you don’t my mother and my sister and I will be thrown from your house for being unhelpful. And yes, my father is dead, and we can’t afford to lose our position here. So if you won’t descend the stairs for your own parents for the sake your future, then do it for me. Am I to be sent back to England there to starve?’” (Maguire 121).
He finds himself at his lowest point in an unknown land, once his funds have run out completely and his rich friends have disappeared. The prodigal’s son reaches rock bottom when he has to become a herder for pigs. Terry Thompson says, “Because swine are, according to Old Testament Jewish law, unclean and therefore unholy in the eyes of God, the prodigal son has not simply
He goes through many things that one would never think a kid would have to go through. After witnessing the
In this scene, the man recalls the final conversation he had with his wife, the boy’s mother. She expresses her plans to commit suicide, while the man begs her to stay alive. To begin, the woman’s discussion of dreams definitively establishes a mood of despair. In the
His father was the only real piece of his past life he had, having all other family members taken, possessions stolen, and even identity brought down to simply a
Throughout the novel the father's love for his son pushes him to protect him no matter the risks. For example in the novel many times the two would go to an abandoned house
However, even though they do these things together the boy does show signs of some different ethics than the father has, for example the boy will question if they should be taking things, then he says after finding the
In that scene, he was so cruel to his son, that at one point he truly cared about, he humiliated him, and confessed to him that he was not his
In additional, the unexpected and twisted ending of the movie makes more sense to their viewers. Even after completing the movie, the viewers' will still be imagining about it. "The Sixth Sense is one of the few genre films that truly discuss what horror really is, by filtering it through the experience of a frightened small child. Indirectly, it is also discussing misdirection, an all-important part of an illusionist's craft, in the form of the "magic trick" of hiding the plot twist. So the qualities of M. Night Shyamalan's signature film are evident.
