Both Across the Red Sky and the film the Sixth Sense, use symbolic imagery to frighteningly explore death as parallel dimensions, existing without acknowledgement of each other.
The two works of The Sixth Sense and Across the Red Sky are packed with various instances of symbolism and meanings related to the idea of life and death. The film, The Sixth Sense, to the layman, is just another horror/suspense film, but, after closer inspection, it can as well be seen as a theatrical visual to the poem Across the Red Sky. These works use symbolic imagery to explore realms of life and death as parallel dimensions, existing without acknowledgement of each other. Through the use of the discussion of death, the idea of the dead walking amongst the living, and the significance of the color red, we can see the
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This clear instance of death leaves little room for imagination. The clear act of a stabbed heart is an action that directly results in death. Thus, this blatant imagery brings death to the forefront within this poem. Within The Sixth Sense, we are also faced with an initial instance of death. In the opening scene, Dr. Crowe comes home to find that Vincent, a former patient of his, is undressed and standing in his bathroom. Vincent is in distress, blaming him for not handling his case properly and attributing his childhood experiences to hallucinations caused by the stress of his parents’ divorce. The scene unfolds to end with the shooting of Dr. Crowe, an act that we later find out has resulted in his death, and the suicide of Vincent Grey. Therefore, the audience is immediately presented with a clear and violent instance of death: both that of Dr. Crowe and Vincent Grey. Thus, both works draw a clear connection to death through the concrete actions of being stabbed in the heart and being shot with a gun. The Sixth Sense goes further to display death to the audience. While