The Sixth Sense
Submitted by J on January 14 2002 03:50:51
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I watched The Sixth Sense for like the millionth time today and it brought back a whole flood of memories when the teacher called Cole a ‘freak’. My first night of incarceration, I was in this holding cell for what seemed like forever and this one guard looked through the small window at me. He called me a ‘freak’ and I’ll never forget the look of disgust he had in his eyes as long as I live. It brought tears to my eyes and a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach just thinking about it today. The Sixth Sense was the second movie I saw after I got out of prison (Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menace was the first) and it really moved me. Cole had what he viewed in the beginning as a curse, yet by the end of the movie he was able, with Dr. Crowe’s help, to turn it around to help people – Kyra’s sister and father, his mother and even Dr. Crowe himself. One scene where I always break down crying (today was no exception) is where Cole runs from the battered wife who slit her wrists into his bedroom tent and cries while the camera focuses on a figurine of Jesus. I’m asking myself, ‘Where was Jesus for Cole?’ Where was Jesus for me when I was a kid? I got the idea for this post from a comment made by the producer of The Sixth Sense, Frank Marshall, who said about the movie: It helps people feel better about themselves and about their own situations. The situation that brings all of us here is the fact we are BoyLovers – which in our society is a curse, just as Cole’s sixth sense (ability to see dead people) was like a curse. But just as Cole was able to use this ability to help people, turn the curse into a blessing, so can we as BL’s turn our curse into a blessing. That’s pretty much the message I wanted to leave you all with today – that and an excerpt from an interview done with Haley Joel Osment (Cole). Personally, I tend to pay attention to what boys have to say, for from them often comes great wisdom for a cynical adult like myself: Cole is a, for one he’s a fighter and he’ll, he’ll fight whatever comes his way, whatever is, is bothering him and the shadow that’s over him for most of the movie, he fights it and fights it and fights it and go, and will go down fighting... Um, he isn’t just a depressed, sad little boy for, for what’s overshadowing him and he’ll, he’ll try and be a normal kid through whatever happens, he’s a very deep person. In Christ, J |
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