Symbols and Tropes
Red
Red is a Big Deal in Shyamalan's movies. The accepted reason is that he uses the color to draw attention to important items and people, and that definitely seems to be true here. We'd argue that it...
Cold
It's not hard to see how cold might be symbolic in a film about, well, deadness. The bulk of the movie takes place in the fall following Malcolm's death, and the whole atmosphere of autumnal Philad...
Talking to the Dead
The hero of this story is a therapist, so it's not really a shocker that "talking" is a major motif. But what does end up kind of being a surprise is that all of Cole's struggles with the dead—an...