Sixth Sense airing now on 40 abc family I just saw the beginning (although not the very - maybe only a minute or so in only) seems I never saw the beginning before

god, this is good. this is so sad, the things children feel.

"out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord" .domine.

the script the filming, seems v intelligent.
turns to advantage ~tropes of film making and watching: when we don't see certain contexts, we fill it in. introductions, previous conversations. even when as here, it's not directly implied. (we assume the mother has spoken with the doctor, when he is at the house. so it does not seem strange that we see no interaction between them when Cole comes in. and, when the doctor is with Cole at the old man's house, we assume Cole has introduced them etc.)
and, maybe trope of psychiatric session. not unlike talking with a ghost. (~ you get right to the point. right to something like intimacy. there's little polite convention.)

bruce willis is v good. the kid is v good.
I wldnt want to watch it repeatedly ~not pretty to watch, not pleasant, bcs sad. heartbreaking almost. "they don't have meetings about rainbows" - "no. I guess not." the scene where he takes three steps forward twd the doctor (and the chair next to him) as the doctor 'reads his mind' saying things that are true, but then all those steps backward. -you don't get in trouble in school. --step back. We were supposed to draw a picture, anything we wanted. I drew a man. he was hurt by another man with a screwdriver. -you saw that on tv. --step back. (oh-) -what do you draw now? --now I draw people, smiling. dogs running. rainbows. they don't have meetings about rainbows. -no I guess not.
--do you now what I am thinking now?
-no Cole I don't know what you are thinking now. he's a good doctor.
--I'm thinking you're nice. (oh.) but you can't help me.

good momma. "today I won the lottery. I quit my jobs. I played in the fountain. what did you do today?"
this poor kid. mom steps out of the room for just a minute, steps back and starts at the change: all the kitchen cupboards and drawers are open. kid sitting still at the table as he was.
she says, you looking for something? he says.. poptarts. poor kid. he says, what are you thinking mom? she says, a lot of things. he says, anything bad about me? she says: look at my face. I was not thinking anything bad about you.
look at my face.

god, this is awful. scene in school. where he says the teacher used to stutter and the teacher starts to stutter and gets upset and calls him a freak. awful.
and the doctor is nice, but he can't help him. bcs he isnt upset about the divorce.
it's like the same lesson as Albert's toothache: you should believe what the child says. and let go of assumptions, no matter they seem basic. (a toothache is in the tooth. if Cole is upset, it's bcs of the circumstance of his family.)

poor baby. "all the time. they're everywhere."

I like dr malcolm's story about dr malcolm. and, are we to think that the other boy Vincent who wanted also "not to be scared anymore" also saw dead people?

yes: dr listens to a tape of vincent .. I only caught last moment of this but understood that dr is hearing sounds that evidence vincent also saw ghosts... that's why vincent told dr he was wrong about him, failed him. and vincent says he doesn't want to be scared anymore.

pretty good - ruinedendings: The Sixth Sense plot summary:
Dr. Malcolm Crowe is a successful child psychiatrist and happily married to Anna. Returning home from an awards ceremony, Malcolm’s confronted by Vincent Grey, a distraught former patient who shoots Malcolm and commits suicide. Months later, a recovered Malcolm meets with Cole Sear, a shy and troubled 9 year-old boy. Cole has been experiencing disturbing situations he can’t fully understand. His mother, Lynn, is concerned about his withdrawn and fearful behavior and attributes it to her recent divorce and Cole being bullied by school classmates.
Since the shooting, Malcolm and Anna, have grown apart. She has become depressed and uncommunicative. Malcolm unsuccessfully reaches out to her, and is upset when it appears she is seeing another man.
Initially, Cole is uncomfortable talking to Malcolm but comes to trust him and confides, 'I see dead people.' He says the ghosts don’t always know they are dead. Malcolm diagnoses Cole as delusional, noting he shares similar symptoms to Vincent Grey. Eventually, Malcolm realizes Cole really is able to communicate with the dead (as was Vincent). He believes the ghosts are benevolent and tells Cole the spirits somehow find their way to him for his help.