Cole Sears: The Most Grotesque Character In The Sixth Sense

Have you ever wondered if the people you see are dead or alive? This is the problem that Cole Sears faces in the movie, “The Sixth Sense.” The movie has many different characteristics, but the important ones are impossible to miss. This film captivated every important aspect of the Romantic movement, especially an important three. In The 6th Sense; grotesque characters, Imagination over reason, and out of the ordinary things are all clearly evident. Grotesque characters are filled throughout this movie. The most grotesque character in this whole movie is Cole Sears. He seems to be a typical, shy boy who minds his own business, but there is so much more to him that no one could ever understand. He is a very troubled boy who is able to see the …show more content…
The director used this effectively to spark the viewer's minds and make them think. Being able to see dead people is a very rare case if it is not actually schizophrenia, so what are the odds that Malcolm finds another person, just like Vincent, with the exact same disorder only a year later. After Vincent got in the house we realize that he got through a window that was at least one story high. That seems almost impossible for someone with a mental disorder to accomplish while being that delirious. When Malcolm met Cole in the church he heard him speaking spanish, then listening to old tapes of interviews with Vincent Gray, he hears Vincent say the exact same words which are, “Yo no quiero morir!”, which translates to, “I do not want to die!” Shyamalan used imagination to capture the most bizarre details of a rare …show more content…
From the very start out of the ordinary cannot be missed. Vincent Gray breaking into his house just wearing his underwear, and then shooting him is absurd. The whole fact that Cole Sears can see dead people is very out of the ordinary and his cuts on his arms are especially out of the ordinary, especially because he and his mother did not inflict this damage. How his classmate has a dungeon at the top of his stairs in his house is extremely out of the ordinary, but it is necessary to understand how different he really is and how much his ability to see the dead really affects him. A not so obvious out of the ordinary case was all of the red in the movie, which was meant to symbolize death, and especially Malcolms. There were many different red object in the movie such as the door knob that led to where he worked, the red balloon that led him to the dungeon, or the red volume numbers on the tape recorder which was when he heard Vincent say, “Yo no quiero morir!”, even the red helmet on the biker when they were stopped at the accident scene. All of these are out of the ordinary, but are just not as easy to pick out. These red symbols all symbolized either death or very important parts to the