Why is the movie called The Sixth Sense?
He sees dead people. Sight is one of the five senses. Its an extension of one of the five senses, not a sixth one. • He sees DEAD people, you know, ghosts. Some people think that seeing ghosts and spirits and whatnot require a sixth sense. Hence the title of the film. • Let’s not forget the scene where Cole explains to Malcolm that prickly sensation where the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. That sounds pretty sixth sense-y to me. • I’m not at all certain if it’s literal sight. In film they have no choice but to use two senses to represent all sorts of different things (imagination, hallucination, visualization, metaphor, and in this case, psychic phenomena), and of course a child wouldn’t know how else to express the experience in words but to refer to it as though it were literally “seeing” dead people, and would be so used to the experience that he no longer consciously recognizes the difference between it and “ordinary” sight. Or maybe he does literally see him and they jus
