The Sixth Sense’s Twist You Still Missed 

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Saw this in '99 at the age of 25 with my dad. He was always figuring out endings half way through the movie and leaning over and telling me. It was really annoying. This one caught him completely by surprise. Miss you, Dad.

When Cole says to Malcolm near the end "I'm not going to see you again", he really does mean he won't "see" him again, cos he knows he's about to go to the light.

This is a masterpiece. My favorite scene though is when Cole finally connects with his mom and she realizes that he’s been truthful all this time. He convinces her by giving her the message from her mom. “Every day”

Full props to the father of the girls. The slow build of horror and shock on his face as he watches the tape.

Every time I watch this, I am impressed by the father of the dead girl and the actor's skills. It is amazing how he can portray such absolute anguish and heartbreak with just an expression.

What’s really cool about this film is that once you know the ending, a second viewing makes the film really sad 😢

This is one of my favorite movies. Not many movies really overwhelm you at the finale. This is a masterwork of how to tell a story.

One of the great tools the director used to trick the audience was in casting Bruce Willis. He was known for playing "Very Alive" or "larger than life", proactive characters in his movies. In fact the most "alive" and unburdened character in the Sixth Sense is his character. Everyone else seems to carry unmanageable burdens around with them. So it throws us off when we realize that Malcolm is in fact, dead.

Showed this Movie to my son on the autism spectrum….after having watched it previously myself and only got the twist right at the end. My son said Malcolm was dead as soon as Cole saw him….made him sit through the whole movie to prove him right. Certain people on this planet have a different perspective on life and pick up on things us “normals” block out

I found a lot of people missed the fact that the patient that shot him also could see the dead which is what drove him to the mania as he didn't have the guidance Cole got

That mother poisoning her daughter in that tape the little girl left for her dad still haunts me. That dad had to be a place beyond hell to lose a child to its own parent. It haunts me.

This was M. Night Shyamalan's masterpiece, He should have won the Oscar for *Best Original Screenplay* ......it was brilliant.

This remains the most overwhelming and wonderful cinema experience I've ever had. Me and my best friend both realised what was going at *exactly the same moment, when the ring drops. We both reached for and grabbed each other's hands at the precise same instant and we both gasped at the same time. It was an awesome moment that I still remember every time I walk into a cinema.-- And I mourn the loss of that moment because I'm pretty sure it will never happen to me again. 😢

I watched this hoping it would meet the expectations set by it's title...it didn't.

I remember noticing Malcom took the bus everywhere and wondered why. It stuck out as odd that he wouldn't have a car or drive at all then when it reached the end, I was almost annoyed at myself for having not realised *that's* why he was on the friggin' bus.

Cole's mom and Malcom never talked in the film. The only communication was between him and Cole, Am I right?

The relationship between Malcolm and Cole is an interesting one: Malcolm believes he is helping Cole but in reality it's more the other way round. The word "help" is used at least three times in the film: "You can't help me" (Cole to Malcolm in Cole's house, perhaps to make Malcolm more determined). "What do you think these ghosts want?" "Just help". (Dialogue between Malcolm and Cole). NB: Malcolm needs to help Cole in order to help himself, hence at the end of the movie: "I needed to help someone" (Malcolm to Anna). After helping Cole, Malcolm's work on Earth is done.

I never believe people who claim they saw the twist beforehand.

The man playing the girls father at the wake........he should have been awarded an Oscar. I've never had my guts wrenched out from me before looking at his face, while watching that video. And yes, I was aware something was going on with Bruces character, just didn't know what. But was fully expecting him to be dead after the boy told him he saw dead people. Just didn't have confirmation until the end.

The light part was interesting. I never realized Cole's last name was basically seer, that was interesting. "Soul Seer" is a bit of a stretch, but I'll bite... And "Cole is in the middle of Malcolm" was a little too far.

Another thing I noticed years ago when I saw this, was that the sentence that Cole was saying over and over again, that Malcolm translates: 'Out of the Depths, I cry to thee O Lord'. If you keep that phrase in mind while Malcolm helps Cole you realize that Malcolm is, essentially, God's answer to Cole's prayer.

The fact that the movie was so engaging that a key piece of the movie was in fact missed is ACTUALLY a compliment to movie, the acting, and how well both are done!!!

When I first saw this as a kid, I thought it was weird that everyone ignored Bruce Willis except the kid that could see the dead and I realized he was dead the whole time. There was no twist to me, I was like cole, an invisible kid that watched the world go by but I felt like Malcolm who was ignored by his loved ones who didn’t know he was there

Remember in Jurassic Park when they are flying in the helicopter going to the Island at the beginning. The character can't find the proper male and female ends to the seatbelt , so he ties the two female ends together in a knot instead. Thereby giving away the ending of the movie - That the all female dinosaurs figure out a way to get together and make it work. (breed) 😀

I learned about the twist ending years and years before finally watching the film. Despite already knowing what was going to happen I was blown away by the ending and the whole film.

Somehow I waited years to watch this and I never had it spoiled for me, I knew obviously there was something about the ending but not what it was and it made the movie so much better than had I known.

I'll never forget, I was about 6 when I went to the movies with family to see this. We saw it twice more. When it was nominated for an Oscar, but didn't win, I remember a relative saying: "The didn't give it to the director bc he wasn't white." I've seen this movie now that I'm older and it's so brilliantly filmed. I don't understand how it didn't get the recognition it deserved.

I realised that Malcolm was dead as soon as Cole says he sees dead people. I realised it most profoundly when I noticed that no-one but Cole speaks directly to him. Then go back to the beginning of the movie it becomes obvious that he never survived the gunshot wound. I don’t always get movie twists before the reveal, but I worked that one out.

Saw this movie in 99 when it was in theaters. Love it. One of my favorites. M Night was so amazing at telling a story and luring us in. Unbreakable, and Signs were pretty good as well

Loved it. 'They don't know that they're dead..' A reflection of the comment section on most YT vids :)

I have had so many "I should have been dead" moments I often wonder if I am "living" a dead mans life. Similar to the titled Jacobs Ladder film in 1990

Have you considered the unreliable narrator device? Perhaps Cole is dead too. Cole could mean coal, and sear means burn, so Cole may be in Hell/purgatory without knowing it, and his job is to guide the dead through the afterlife. Perhaps he is the guy who shot Malcolm, and he is stuck in a perpetual childhood as a result of abuse. Malcolm may be the symbol of Cole's growing wisdom, that he tried to kill so that he could remain ignorant and childlike. Now that's a stretch.

One of the most heartbreaking moments in cinema is the final frame where he's watching the wedding film.

this was an awesome film period. All the actors gave an amazing performance

This guy put way too much thought into this. Minutes I will never get back.

I guessed after Cole told Malcolm that he sees dead people, that he had already died. I just had that feeling, and that feeling was right.

That was the first of movies with such a twist since Alfred Hitchcock ... Loved Alfred Hitchcock

Yes, you interpreted this very well. You’re right, it was very mysterious: the evidence was given all along, and yet we didn’t see it till the end. I love the scene where his wife picks up the check at the restaurant, while he’s reaching for it. He thinks she is ignoring him, refusing to let him pay for the dinner, refusing to look at him or speak to him, but really she just doesn’t see him.

Yep this film left an impression on me. The acting was first class. Haley Joel Osment was brilliant.

The child’s funeral scene was it for me : why isn’t anyone asking who the hell these two people are at a child’s funeral.

Such an amazing movie. I remember going to Revere theater in 1999 to watch it live. My dad died since, but what memories. I hope my father is in the same sense..don't we all?

I saw this movie years after it was released. Somehow, no one ever spoiled the ending for me. I was completely taken by surprise at the ending.

People talking about the dad of the dead girl? Yes, great acting there. But in this film, THE BEST performance was from Toni Collette (Cole’s mother) when Cole finally confesses his powers to her and talks about his grandma. Toni absolutely scorches the earth. One of the best scenes by an actor ever. Literally in my top 10. You can feel everything coming off of her.

The craft of writing and moviemaking really shined in this film.

This was one of the best films that I have ever seen. M. Knight is amazing!

Went from scary to heartbreaking in 0-60. I felt that man's pain. And then I felt anger and disgust when I saw that this woman actually wore red to the funeral because she was secretly celebrating her own child's death. "You kept her sick,0 Being the only words he said to her. Breaks my heart and fills me with a horror worse than the Ghosts. Because you understand why the ghosts are messed up. What you don't understand is the all too real living human evil. That a person would choose to poison any child let alone there's. It's chilling. It's sad. And if pisses me the fuck off everytime.

I don’t think I’ve met a single person who missed this ‘twist’

I saw the commentary where the director said he gave clues as where death is or been touched by death the girls mum at the funural wears red, the soldior trapped at the party a red balloon malcom's room a red door knob etc...

I was thinking I’d be shooketh but shooketh I am not.

oh my god osment deserve 10 oscars for this performance this much of acting skills from 10year boy Gifted talent Osment u r true legend

i think most of us at first when we saw the movie, understanding the dead needed help was a very hard pill to swallow since they were very scary, at least, to us the younger who watched this at the time.

The real twist is that Cole never existed. The guy who shot him really was just crazy

I love the movie but it's highly flawed. The reason so many of us didn't see the twist ending coming is because we were lied to. Malcom's ghost breaks the "rules" of the movie. The ghosts all have the injuries from their deaths, not Malcom. The other ghosts are in the same clothes they died in, not Malcom he changes clothes through out the movie. Also, how did a dead guy get the psychiatric paper work on a boy he never knew existed when he was alive? The movie hides all these flaws and lies with great acting and cinematography, but after a good analyzation it doesn't quite live up to all the hype it got.

The movie Frailty is an excellent one like this. I loved it, and was so surprised by the ending that I had to rewatch it knowing what I knew after the 1rst go-round!

I watched the movie for the first time yesterday. I was spellbound at the end. Yeah the little boy who played Cole has done an amazing job. I wondered why Malcolm never hugged him or held him. Wonderful movie. Anna still loved Malcolm.❤❤

Glad I missed the clues - I enjoyed the climax very much

Great analysis! Including the insight that the audience's limited perception - only seeing what they want to see, is a kind of death - a suppression of a part of ourselves

Only took 20 years for an in depth explanation, but I enjoyed it. 👍

The problem I have with a lot of movies like this is that their reveal isn't actually at the time of the "reveal" at the end, but is usually shown at the beginning. That always ruins the movie for me. When Bruce Willis is shot in the beginning. I thought it was strange at first that he didn't walk funny or show any level of pain from his gunshot wound. I also noticed that no one ever directly spoke to him. And when the kid explained to Bruce, "I see dead people...they don't know that they are dead"...I knew he was telling Bruce that he was one of them. I am not trying to claim that I am the smartest guy who always sees the twist coming. But I AM saying that I have seen enough movies to understand what is being presented visually. And often, the WAY a movie is filmed makes it easy to spot the twist coming from almost the beginning of the movie. I guess I have "The 7th Sense"...cause I see movies movie plot twists"

I figured out the twist because of the most simple thing , Bruce Willis never changes his clothes.

I never saw this film for years and never knew what the twist was for it. All I knew was who is in the film, directed it, and the line “I See Dead People”. I finally saw it around 3 or 4 years ago and was blown away! I am 24 now and I have no clue how I dodged the twist for so long!

The brilliance of this movie is that people tended to not give the ending away to those who hadn't seen it yet. They didn't want to spoil it for others and so many of us went back to the theater more than once to see what he had missed.

An Extremely UNderrated Sleeper Movie you should watch is "Frailiy"

I saw this with my dad and i still miss him after his death

For those who saw the twist coming: did you see this film in 1999 or later?

I always kinda thought that cole knew malcom was dead the whole time, just didn't run from him bc a ghost was trying to help him for once instead of the other way around.

Interesting vid. I only saw this movie once. In the theater. Back before the internet (and the trolls that would come to infest it) ruined movies for other people. So, I genuinely enjoyed this movie, and was appropriately taken aback by every moment the director intended. That said, although I did notice the majority of the things you mentioned, there were still a few interesting bits I hadn't yet noticed. Thanks.

Well, this theory was a stretch…

it's so bad that every movie after Shyamalan was never as good as the sixth sense

This isn't a twist. It's called foreshadowing.

"The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God." 2nd Corinthians 4:4

I was robbed of this plot twist by some asshole at work spoiling it

Just a clickbait that's all.

Well that’s 6 minutes of my life I’ll never get back.

I see *CLIQ BATE* ...

I'll be honest I didnt see the twist coming... the twist that this video is clickbait

There's an interview at the end of the "Sixth Sense" DVD that explains M. Night Shamalyan's use of symbolism in the film.

I see trolls, all the time

The real twist that we miss is that the kid realises he sees dead people but never realises his psychologist is dead - why does Cole get fooled into thinking the psychologist is alive when the other dead people don't fool him?

Did you figure that out all by yourself? No, we saw the movie to.

Besides allowing us a moment to relive a legendary piece of cinema, this video has been pointless. 5:09 min. we can never get back.

You have to watch. Before I Fall

What else did we miss ? Nothing. We absolutely didnt miss anything else.

You described literally the twist that we all already knew about

this and unbreakable are two of the best “superhero” movies of all time. and yes i consider Sixth Sense to be a superhero movie, because Cole’s gift allows him supernatural powers that, as we saw, can bring villains to justice. Or peace to the mourning like his mother. M Night was punching WAY above his weight class and had two knockouts with those two films. i just simply don’t understand why he hasn’t been able to even come close to the quality and suspense of either of them. but i’m damn sure glad we have them.

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Plot twist was that homeboy was actually dead. We just got extra info. Video was solid

Wasn't really surprised about him not knowing he is dead, there is a similar Africa tale about a man who doesn't know he was dead that then had another family, the way the story is told always give me the chill as well, this story I heard 11 years before the six sense film, also apparently it a version of this Africa ghost story that Night use for six sense.

I CAUGHT THE ORIGINAL TWIST AND I'M SO PROUD OF MYSELF(I just watched the movie for the first time😭)

Beautiful movie. All time favourite.

If you're saying that we, the audience, could be "dead" in the context of this movie, that doesn't make sense - he specifically says that the dead can't see other dead people, but we see everything that Cole says. If it's just a metaphor for noticing more in life then, yeah, we could all do that more

I thought this is about the final plot twist I thought I had found back then, but it wasn't: After the second watching in the cinema, I was convinced that it was all in Cole's head. Let me explain. There is this scene with the traffiic jam / car accident near the end: Cole's mother finally believes her son is able to see the dead, because he "has been visited" by her mother, whom she had had a difficult relationship with. He tells her about some dance recital of hers that her mother never saw; he reassures her that his grandmother had actually been watching it from the back, and that she is proud of her daughter. Cole's mother, deeply moved, is convinced now, because she had never told him about that. Alas, we know by then, that Cole's mother is a) fiercely protective of her son, who is the only light in her life, b) not very smart, and c) talking in her sleep. Cole, on the other hand, is a very sensitive, imaginative and intelligent kid. He lives an almost autistic life, isolated in a world of his own making. And he wants his mother to be happy. To me, the whole movie is Cole talking to himself about events he had gathered from newspaper reports and TV: - Talking to dead Malcolm: Malcolm's death by a gunshot wound from a former patient must have been all over the news, as he had been a star psychologist, who had been honored with a prize on that very evening. - Solving a murder case: The tragic und unexplicable death of a young girl probably had been the talk of the neighbourhood for days. Cole sneaked into the funeral reception, did some very intelligent investigating on his own and handed the VHS tape to the father, which he might have replayed on the very TV set of the dead daughter, where she had recorded it. - Exposing his teacher who had been stammering as a kid: He might have heard this story from other kids of his class, who had it from their parents. People talk. This was, I think, the only scene with Cole showing any aggression at all, which he guessed would trigger his teacher's stammering, that he had overcome long ago. Cole guessed right. - A dead woman helping him with his make up on his starring role at the school play: That house fire must have been a topic in school history for decades. All of Malcolm's scenes without Cole are a product of Cole's imagination: Of course Malcolm's widow would be devastated about her husband's death. Of course it always gets cold when "the dead" appear to Cole. He is genuinely scared. To me, his line "I see dead people. They don't know that they are dead." always translated to: "I see dead people. I don't know that they are only in my head." My 2 cents.

Dude if M. Night, Christopher Nolan, and James Wan team up they could creat the best plot twist ever.

Can I make a request? Bill and Ted movies.. They are on Hulu, now that im an adult, it seems odd the movie was even funded, 2 teens in a band who cant pass class travel through time to save the world.. There has to be more to it...

This video is kind of bogus. It doesn't actually reveal any additional twist at all. It just talks about little details and possible correlations, but nothing even vaguely resembling a hidden twist. Edit: FYI, the spurious connection to the audience being "just as dead as Malcolm" is a frivolous bit of entertainment at best. It's not meaningful or even supported by anything in the film. One of the first things the kid says is they can't see each other, which doesn't really work for an audience full of people anyway.

One of the few times a movie ending actually surprised me

I saw this when it came out, didn’t know the twist. But knew he was dead as soon as he sat down on the bench, after scene of getting shot and I immediately noticed he was wearing the same dress clothes. Then the same sweatshirt when dressed down. After that, all the other scenes were quite obvious.

The mother that wore red to her daughters funeral.

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