Hello everyone, I would like to share with you an extract of a movie called Sixth sense. I suppose that probably you have already seen it, but in case you have not, I will give you a brief explanation of the context.
Dr. Malcolm Crowe is a child psychologist who tries to help Cole Sear, a boy who has an extrange problem: He sees dead people wherever he goes; people who don’t know that they are dead and go on with their lives as if nothing had happened to them, having the possibility to even talk to them and hearing what they have to say. Through the movie, Crowe teaches Cole to deal with his gift by giving it a purpose, that is, to help the dead to accomplish what they left unfinished. Crowe has to deal with his own problem too, his wife does not pay him attention since an incident occurred months ago with a former patient he had years ago. Cole tells Crowe to talk to his wife when she is asleep and to be true about his feelings towards her. This is what happens when Crowe decides to follow the advice:
The moment of epiphany that Crowe experienced in the fragment that you have just seen, regarding being dead instead of being alive, as he always thought he was, made me immediately thought of the final part of The dead, where Gabriel changes his mind about what means to be dead and what means to be alive, specially when it has to do with feelings. Both of them knew the truth through their loved ones and experienced the sorrow that this truth brings with it, even though their wives are not willing to hurt them. For both of them, nothing will be the same after they knew what really happens in their lives. The only difference is that Gabriel, unlike Crowe, probably will continue living besides his wife in spite of what he knows; he will have to struggle with the sorrow of knowing that she will never love him the way she loved Michael years ago, that is the way he loves her. Crowe, on the contrary, has to leave this world and, even though he feels bad about leaving his wife alone, he feels that he was true to her and told her that she had always been the most important part of his life so, in the end, he could close that part of his life peacefully.
By María Soledad Torres
By María Soledad Torres
Great post!
ResponderBorrarI was thinking about the moment of epiphany that Gabriel experienced in The Dead and I can't help comparing that picture with what I've often seen when people realize that they have been mistaken for a long time. Some people probably would change their perceptions about life but some others won’t.
The problems appear when people choose to stay paralyze and don’t move forward in life. We don’t know what happened to Gabriel after the epiphany but we can guess that it was not easy for him to open his eyes to reality, it is always hard to realize that we have been living in a fantasy.