The Sixth Sense

Intuition beyond senses

The Sixth Sense is a 1999 supernatural thriller film directed by M.

Night Shyamalan, famous for its twist ending.

The title refers to the ability to perceive things beyond the five ordinary senses—particularly seeing the dead.

More broadly, a sixth sense is intuition or an uncanny awareness: She had a sixth sense for when something was wrong.

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sensory category

The Sixth Sensesight

Visual perception faculty

hearing · touch · taste · smell · vision

epistemological mode

The Sixth Sensereason

Basis or justification

logic · empirical observation · scientific method · rational thought · materialism

film genre/tone

The Sixth Senseromantic comedy

Humorous love story genre

documentary · slapstick comedy

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Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG-13