He refuses to speak to Malcolm until he's sure his mom is out of earshot. He even looks into the kitchen to make sure she's busy before playing the mind-reading game. It's almost like he doesn't want his mom to know he's talking with Malcolm. Is this the behavior of a troubled child, or does Cole know something about this guy we don't? Here's a hint: it's definitely the latter. Up until this point, The Sixth Sense has been coy about what's wrong with Cole.
But when he attends a birthday party, the boy hears a frightening, angry voice coming from a behind a thick, solid door. Cole is clearly freaked out, and things get worse when a group of bullies lock him inside the closet. The kid goes into panic mode, and when he finally escapes, Cole is so traumatized that he ends up in the hospital. And it's there, after several scenes of bonding with his psychologist, that Cole reveals his secret to Malcolm, dropping one of the all-time iconic movie lines: "I see dead people.
Ghosts don't know they're dead, and they can't see each other. They only see what they want to see, which means they ignore proof that they're dead. Additionally, if a ghost gets angry or upset, the temperature drops and things get frosty, which is why it's always cold at Cole's house.
Once Cole returns home, we finally get glimpses of the terrifying spirit world. There's a suicidal housewife in his kitchen and a kid with his brains blown out wanders into Cole's bedroom. Even at school, Cole sees three old-timey farmers hanging from the rafters.
The ghosts seem drawn to Cole, and whenever they arrive, he hides in a makeshift tent filled with stolen religious icons to keep the spirits at bay. After all, these ghosts say horrible, scary things, and sometimes they attack, leaving Cole scratched and bruised. With these gruesome ghosts around, it's no wonder Cole is a little screwed up. How do you solve a problem like Cole Sear?
Well, at first, Malcolm believes his patient is suffering from schizophrenia. But as he digs into his research, the psychologist makes a shocking spiritual discovery. While going through audio recordings of old sessions with Vincent Gray, Malcolm hears a faint voice in the background. When he turns up the volume, he realizes there's someone else in the room, talking to Vincent in a foreign language and screaming, "I don't want to die.
And now that he understands what's going on, Malcolm develops a theory that might help Cole. Maybe these ghosts aren't mean, Malcolm reasons. Maybe they just want someone to listen. Perhaps they need to complete an unfinished task before they can shuffle off this mortal coil, and maybe Cole should help them.
It's quite a burden for a little boy, but Cole agrees to try. When a ghostly little girl with vomit pouring from her mouth shows up, Cole goes from terrified kid to Phantom Private Eye. With Malcolm by his side, Cole the Ghost Detective takes a trip across town to visit the house of the sickly ghost girl. When the duo arrives, they discover a depressing funeral reception for the recently departed girl.
But as Malcolm and Cole are exploring the house without anyone paying attention to Malcolm, you might notice , the ghost girl shows up and hands Cole a videotape. VHS in hand, Cole gives the tape to the little girl's dad. And when he pops it in the VCR, the dad sees a secret recording of his wife poisoning his daughter. It's a messed-up case of Munchausen by proxy , but thanks to Cole, the little girl gets justice, saves her younger sister from a similar fate, and moves on to the next plane.
After realizing these spirits just need help, Cole finds himself less afraid of the gore-caked ghosts. He can now harness his sixth sense for good, and he won't end up like poor Vincent.
Sadly, that means it's time for Malcolm to go, but before he fades from Cole's life, the two share some sage advice. Malcolm encourages Cole to tell his mom about his ghostly abilities, and Cole gives Malcolm a tip on how to talk with his wife: wait until she's asleep, and then she'll listen and won't even know it.
Malcolm doesn't realize it yet, but that tip will finally set him free. For nine years, Cole Sear has seen ghosts, and for nine years, he's kept that a secret from his mom.
He's worried she'll think he's a freak, but now he's ready to come clean. Stuck in a traffic jam, Cole claims there's an accident up ahead, that a lady died in the wreck Lynn Sear is freaked out by this, but things get even creepier when Cole lets her know that "Grandma says hi. That's when Cole explains that his deceased grandmother visits him occasionally, and then he starts dropping information that only Lynn and her mom would know.
In one of the film's most emotional moments, Cole delivers a brief message from his grandma to her daughter: "Every day.
Not only can Cole help the dead, but he also brings comfort to the living. Cole sees dead people, walking around among the normal populace. These people don't know that they're dead, and don't see each other. As Cole puts it, "they only see what they want to see. As Cole says "they don't see each other, they only see what they want to see," the camera sits on Malcolm's face, not moving for the entire duration of those lines.
Cole is then shown saying "they don't know they're dead," at which point the camera cuts back to Malcolm. Malcolm asks Cole how often he sees them, to which Cole replies "all the time, they're everywhere," the latter words said while the camera again sits on Malcolm. Once someone knows the twist ending, this scene almost seems like it's waving a neon sign saying " Bruce Willis is dead.
However, audiences in test screenings didn't pick up on the hint, so the decision was made to leave the scene alone. Malcolm lies on the bed with blood pouring out of his stomach, his wife Anna screaming for help We assume that Malcolm survived the gunshot, but why is Anna ignoring him?
Not just being passive aggressive or cold, but flat out acting like he doesn't exist. If I were Malcolm, I wouldn't try to win back Anna's affection — I'd be pissed that my wife doesn't seem very distressed by the fact that I was almost murdered in front of her.
The only logical answer — well, logical-ish answer — is that Anna has no idea that Malcolm is really there. I mean, it's either that or she's a really, really bad person. When Malcolm goes to his first "session" with Cole, we see Malcolm sitting with Cole's mother in the living room. We assume that they have been having a discussion about Cole's upcoming therapy session and are waiting for Cole to return.
However, Malcolm and Cole's mother Toni Collette never actually interact in that scene. In fact, Malcolm and Cole's mother never interact at all throughout the entire film. Aren't we under the assumption that Cole's mother is paying Malcolm for his services? Shouldn't she have a few questions about her son's progress? Anna's biggest issue with Malcolm was that he was a workaholic, which, to be honest, she didn't seem to mind all that much at the beginning of the movie.
A year later, Malcolm's workload has slowed down considerably because he's dead but he tells Cole that his wife is resentful of his career. The association also allows us to predict when other people besides Crowe and Seer are connected to death. An example of this can be seen with a young girl named Kyra. After she dies from an unexplainable illness, she goes to Seer for help.
Collins, poisoned her. While everyone else is wearing black or gray, she wears a bright red suite — thereby alluding to her guilt. His outfits possess only small changes to the clothes he wore the day of the murder, meaning he never actually received new clothes from the day he died.
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