The Sixth Sense is a 1999 Oscar Nominated Thriller written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. The movie struck gold in the box office and is till date one of the best thrillers ever made!

The screenplay of the movie (available here) echoes its class as a top notch thriller. It has the right ingredients of a thriller… the perfect pace, the duality of writing and many other factors. By “duality of writing” I mean the ability of writing something that could mean a plethora of different things based on context of the viewer. In this case its mostly got to do with the perfect balance of what if the viewer knows the ending or not.

Some thing that totally took me by surprise was the very high human emotional element in the script that went a miss in the movie. The reason was not the lack in the script but the fact that the thriller element being far more pronounced and hence being the protagonist of the script. Reading the screenplay really pulled out those scenes and showed how brilliant a writer Manoj Night Shyamalan really is. Almost all scenes between Cole and his mother are highly emotional… I was reduced to a state of breaking down almost every time.

One of the other magnificent things about this screenplay is that it is pretty much the movie… no scene seemed like it was added or removed form the script and that tells you how strong and well written this script is.

I throughly recommend you to watch the movie and read the screenplay. If you are into writing of scripts or stories, this is something you just have to read! This is what good writing is all about.

Ps: Yes if you are wondering, I do screenplay reviews too now :P