The flashback is one of the techniques that was a critical impact on the movie. The flashback is known as, “An editing technique that suggests the interruption of the present by a shot or series of shot representing the past” (Giannetti 523). The flashback is used throughout the three minute clip, this enabled the audience to understand that Malcolm is dead and why his wife was ignoring him throughout the entire second act. The first flashback during the three minute scene was when Cole spoke out, “They don’t know they’re dead” (Shyamalan, The Sixth Sense) and Cole those exact words during the midpoint scene of the movie where Cole was able to confront to Malcolm that he could talk to the dead. After that there were a series of flash-backs
