6th sense - help with details
David & Wendy Vanbronkhorst
Anyway, can someone explain the significance of the locked door under Bruce Willis' stairs? In the middle of the movie he checks out his wife in the shower, then walks down and tries to open it. At the end when he is realizing what's going on, he flashes back to that. What's the deal? What's behind the door?
Help! Thanks, DVB
John Harkness
If you notice that when he tries the door earlier in the film, it
never opens, and then there's a cut and he's down in the basement,
suddenly.
At the end he sees that what's been keeping the door closed is a table
-- he hasn't previously seen it because dead people "only see what
they want to see"
John Harkness
Lord Jubjub
David & Wendy Vanbronkhorst <dv...@alumni.duke.edu> wrote:
The door was the cellar door.
His profesional effects were down there. More significantly, throughout
the movie, he never saw the table in front of the door. When he
realized that he was dead, he does so because he sees the table and
realizes the truth of his condition.
--
Lord Jubjub
Ruler of the Jabberwocky, Guardian of the Wabe, Prince of the Slithy Toves,
Leader of the Raths, Keeper of the Bandersnatch
Margaret Phillips
through the door and down to the basement at the beginning to get a bottle
of wine. You see the layout of the room Later, all of Malcolm's stuff is
there boxed up and his desk. It's a clue, but only in hindsight.
In addition, the color of the door knob is significant. Throughout the
film, red is used as a symbol between the living and the dead. Some
examples I remember:
the red door at the church the first time Malcolm meets Cole.
Cole uses a red bedspread as his tent to protect himself
the red balloon that floats up the stairwell at the birthday party to the
ghost locked in the closet
Cole's mother is wearing a red sweater at the end when she's
prepared to really listen to Cole
Malcolm's wife has a red shawl to keep her warm - it gets colder when
ghosts are in the area (at the beginning Malcolm puts on a sweatshirt
and she puts on a sweater or shawl. the former patient and his ghosts
are already in the house.)
I remember there were a bunch more - I'll have to go back and find them
Isn't that the work of the cinematographer?
John R. Rybock
Cole's sweater when he gets locked in the closet.
The girl's mother at the wake in red.
jXwXeXr...@sonic.net
> If you notice that when he tries the door earlier in the film, it
> never opens, and then there's a cut and he's down in the
> basement, suddenly.
I've always wondered about that scene - how did he get down there if
he couldn't open the door?
J. Wermont
Mike Rhino
news:3ccf3dc0....@nntp.attcanada.ca...
I assumed the table wasn't there early in the movie. Why would you think
anything different? If a ghost kept opening the door, that would bother the
wife, so she blocked the door. Maybe she heard noises down there and was
afraid.
The movie doesn't explain how he got through a locked door. My guess is
that he walks through walls like a ghost, but has no memory of doing so.
In his memory, there were gaps of time.
John R. Rybock
<news...@alexanderpics.com> wrote:
>
>I assumed the table wasn't there early in the movie. Why would you think
>anything different? If a ghost kept opening the door, that would bother the
>wife, so she blocked the door. Maybe she heard noises down there and was
>afraid.
>
>The movie doesn't explain how he got through a locked door. My guess is
>that he walks through walls like a ghost, but has no memory of doing so.
>In his memory, there were gaps of time.
>
>
The basement was his office area. Notice that the first look is when
the wife goes downstairs before the shooting. When you see Willis in
there, things are boxed up. In all likelihood, she put the door there
not because of ghosts, but as a way to block off that part of the
house due to the memories. Ghosts see what they want to see, according
to Cole. So the wife blocking off the basement is not something WIllis
wanted to see, so he never saw the table. He just, occasionally, ended
up in the basement, but he never thought about how he got there, like
he never thought about wearing the same clothes every day for a year,
or never having a conversation with anyone but Cole.
Twc6
> never opens, and then there's a cut and he's down in the
> basement, suddenly.
I've always wondered about that scene - how did he get down there if
he couldn't open the door?>>
He's a ghost.
Philo D
Vanbronkhorst <dv...@alumni.duke.edu> wrote:
It's the doorway to the stairs to the basement, where he had
his home office. After he tries the door, the next scene always
shows him in that office. As though he had opened the door and
walked down. BUT in reality
there is a table blocking the door, so it won't open.
He sees only what he wants to see, so he doesn't notice
that until he is ready to admit he is a ghost.
Mike Rhino
news:070520022116503593%do...@earthling.net...
>
> He sees only what he wants to see, so he doesn't notice
I think that this is overstated. He does not always see what he wants to
see. I know that somebody says this in the movie, but you wouldn't have a
plot or a movie if it was really true. The more likely explanation is that
the table wasn't there until near the end of the movie. Why would he
suddenly start seeing a table he didn't see before?