"I see dead people!"--The Sixth Sense

» Car - 11 year old boy

The one thing in the movie I did wonder about was why, if the child has seen these ghosts since he was little, was he so terrified? We aren't born scared of things, we learn to be. In that sense, I liked the portrayal of the boy in Stir of Echos better.

-- posted by Car

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» Blue_Iris - Good point, Car

Personally, I have to agree with you about the child in Stir of Echoes--he treated Samantha's ghost like a "makebelieve friend." However, I think the kid in Sixth Sense was also believable because he was older. Yes, when you've experienced something since birth you get used to it, but remember that the ghosts _he_ saw were all really frightening--bloody and hollow-eyed. And he wasn't so much frightened as he was stressed out because he had no one he could talk to about what he saw without their thinking he was crazy. I think that's what he was really scared about, rather than the ghosts themselves.

-- posted by Blue_Iris

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