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Aggression In The Film 'The Sixth Sense'

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In the film The Sixth Sense, Dr. Malcolm Crowe is a well renowned and awarded child psychologist. After celebrating his newest award with a few drinks accompanied by his wife, they are unexpectedly greeted in their upstairs bathroom by a former patient of Dr. Crowe’s, Vincent Grey. Grey accuses Dr. Crowe of “ failing him” and then proceeds to shoot Dr. Crowe in the stomach, and then follows with another bullet to his own head. The film then proceeds with Dr. Crowe and a new patient he devotes a lot of time working with, a nine year old boy named Cole Sear. The extensive time Dr. Crowe gives to his patients, specifically Cole at this time, eventually causes his marriage to dwindle. Cole is commonly bullied and does not appear to have any friends, but after warming up to Dr. Crowe, he tells him his deepest secret, “I see dead people”. Dr. Crowe originally diagnoses Cole as delusional, but he eventually comes to realize that Cole does indeed “see dead people.” …show more content…

The first being retaliatory aggression. One day while he is at school, Cole gets into an argument with his teacher. He tells his teacher that the school building used to be the old courthouse and people were hanged there. His teacher tells him that this is untrue, and an argument ensues while the rest of the class watches. Cole escalates things and then begins yelling at his teacher and calls him a name from his childhood, ‘Stuttering Stanley’. His teacher begins to stutter, and yells at Cole that he is a freak, a name that he is called by his peers throughout the

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