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using a game to get Cole to talk
In the following scene we meet Cole's mother, hastily dressing as she prepares to send Cole off to school. After leaving the kitchen for a moment to fetch a tie for Cole, she is astonished to find most of the cabinet doors and drawers open with Cole still seated at the breakfast table. (This brings to mind the typical reasoning of atheists: if the [[fossil record]] appears to show that human beings and animals evolved from other forms of life, then it must be a purely natural process; no supernatural being could have done it (since the supernatural is merely an ignorant myth). Cole must have been looking for something (it couldn't be ghosts, no matter how unlikely it is that a boy could get up, open a dozen doors and drawers, and get back in his seat without even breathing hard or breaking a sweat).
In the following scene we meet Cole's mother, hastily dressing as she prepares to send Cole off to school. After leaving the kitchen for a moment to fetch a tie for Cole, she is astonished to find most of the cabinet doors and drawers open with Cole still seated at the breakfast table. (This brings to mind the typical reasoning of atheists: if the [[fossil record]] appears to show that human beings and animals evolved from other forms of life, then it must be a purely natural process; no supernatural being could have done it (since the supernatural is merely an ignorant myth). Cole must have been looking for something (it couldn't be ghosts, no matter how unlikely it is that a boy could get up, open a dozen doors and drawers, and get back in his seat without even breathing hard or breaking a sweat).
Cole's mother and Dr. Crowe are seated across from each other, not talking, when the apartment door opens and Cole comes home. She tries to get him to talk, by playing a game where she says three things happened to her as if they were true, but are obviously only wishes: winning the lottery, quitting her jobs, eating a picnic and swimming all day in a fountain. Cole's things (wishes) are being picked first for kickball, winning the game, and being carried on his teammate's shoulders. Then Dr. Crowe tries a similar game.
Color is a constant theme of the movie, with trees filled with lush green leavess contrasting with piles of brown leaves on the ground in the fall. Cole barely manages to open the heavy red door of a church (red is used throughout to indicate the supernatural).<ref>"Red is an important color in this film. It is used to underscore important links to the supernatural. Red in our culture is a symbol of blood, and hence, death. It is also a bright color that pulls the eye. It underscores. Shyamalan gives it a spiritual connection as well." [http://hollywoodjesus.com/sixth_sense.htm] </ref>
Color is a constant theme of the movie, with trees filled with lush green leavess contrasting with piles of brown leaves on the ground in the fall. Cole barely manages to open the heavy red door of a church (red is used throughout to indicate the supernatural).<ref>"Red is an important color in this film. It is used to underscore important links to the supernatural. Red in our culture is a symbol of blood, and hence, death. It is also a bright color that pulls the eye. It underscores. Shyamalan gives it a spiritual connection as well." [http://hollywoodjesus.com/sixth_sense.htm] </ref>