Redemption: The Sixth Sense

 

Here are today's notes. The homework questions are there:

Genre: we are still doing The Sixth Sense

I did not post the notes last week. I will post last week’s and this week’s notes after class. I will also give a homework assignment. I gave everyone 100 percent for attendance last week because I was too busy. I will NOT do that this week.

I think the psychiatrist feels guilty about not saving the Freak. That is why this little boy is so important to him. It can be redemption for him. I think this is also a religious story and God is giving him redemption. I think God is blocking that basement door too; He is telling the psychiatrist he does not have to feel guilty now. Redemption.

Twist of fate: surprise ending to a story (plot is the story in a drama)

Script

Homework: 

1. Write a paragraph explaining the twist of fate in The Sixth Sense. Remember a paragraph is five or more sentences. We cannot develop an idea in a couple of sentences.

2. Write a sentence to explain why the psychiatrist almost always wears a blue shirt.

Trailer: is a two minute advertisement for a movie

Genre: science fiction, UFO

It was made in 1982 and set in 2019. This movie is also dystopia.

A story about the future when the world is worse than now. Like a movie about global warming and asteroids.

Background: WWII in Asia. Japan (and Taiwan) fought America. Japan lost the war while America won. 1941-1945. Taiwan was a colony of Japan. 200,000 Taiwanese people fought in WWII. 30,000 died.

In Blade Runner, Japan won WWII

The studio made the director put in a narrator (voice over) to explain the movie. This is the director’s cut. The narrator is gone.

If you have a totalitarian government, you will need a lot of police officers to control the people. This is when the people cannot vote or have human rights. “If you are not a cop, then you’re little people.” No power. Origami.

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Below, please find last week's notes:

Genre: horror or I suppose mystery

Basement represents hell.

Why does the psychiatrist always seem to wear a blue shirt?

Religious themes: hell, guilt, church

Remember the patient that shot himself was also called “freak.”

Camera shot going down represents heaven. “The bird’s eye view” camera shot.

They are both so similar. Who is he comparing Cole, the little boy, to? Was the man that committed suicide his father?

You have to add some twists to make the story interesting. Twist of fate is a surprise ending to a story.

Cameo: the director makes a cameo as the doctor and later as the guy buying a ring

Who is helping whom? Does the little boy help the psychiatrist deal with his guilt, especially if the dead man is his father?

 

He is also bullied by the other kids a lot.