Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 98 (click to see context) from:
to:
** She wouldn't have to know she was ''dead'' to realize from the tape that her mother was making her ''sick'', and want to prove it to her father. She was still throwing up even as a ghost, so perhaps she recruited Cole's help because she felt too "ill" to leave her bedroom and deliver the evidence to her daddy herself.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
**Cole takes pains to avoid seeming crazy. When he meets Malcolm in his home with his mom, he glances around to make sure she can't hear, and speaks quietly so as to not be overheard. He rarely speaks to Malcolm in anything louder the a whisper so as not to arouse suspicion. In the "Stuttering Stanley" scene he glances around, almost seems to be listening before answering. Its only later in the film where he becomes more comfortable with the gift that he doesn't try as hard to hide his speaking.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 71 (click to see context) from:
*** Contrary to popular belief spread by fairy tales, children are much more likely to be hurt by their own parents, rather than a stepparent or a strander; and parents (mostly mothers) afflicted with Munchausen's usually go after their own biological children.
to:
*** Contrary to popular belief spread by fairy tales, tales and today's "stranger danger" urban myth, children are much more likely to be hurt by their own parents, rather than a stepparent or a strander; stranger; and parents (mostly mothers) afflicted with Munchausen's usually go after their own biological children.[[note]]90% of Amber alerts turn out to be a divorced-off parent leaving with their own child. And that's ''reported'' abductions -- including the ones that aren't even abductions, just Dad took little Susie for ice cream after the movie on custody night and they ran late and Mom panicked.[[/note]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
** My head canon for Malcom is that his work as a psychiatrist helped give him some awareness, if not total, of his predicament. He's used to reasoning things through and helping minds stuck in troubled feedback loops. And if Cole was referred to him shortly before Malcom died, it would be something for him to fixate on. As for other nice ghostly conversations, we don't see it, but we do hear about one. Cole has conversations with his grandmother. Also, it looks like he's having a nice conversation with the burned lady at the end before he goes out to do his part in the play.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
** It's an artifact from an alternate take of the "I see dead people" scene that was not used in the movie.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* All the ghosts Cole sees other than Malcolm seem to be stuck in a loop in which they repeatedly relive the circumstances of their death. In fact, they seem almost oblivious to Cole's presence, apart from confusing him with the last person they saw before death and only saying things pertaining to that memory. You see this with the lady in the kitchen, the boy with the shot wound in the back of his head, and the vomiting girl. Why is Malcolm's behavior and interaction with Cole so different from any of that? ''Is'' he implied to doing that sort of behavior in front of Malcolm (such as repeating parts of his conversation with the young man who shot him), and we just never see it because it's supposed to represent Malcolm's perspective? And why do we never see another ghost having an ordinary conversation with Cole, the way Malcolm does numerous times throughout the film?
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
** Heavy metal? The song played at the party is "Head" by Tin Star, which is electronica.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 52 (click to see context) from:
*** how do all the other ghosts seem to be around all the time? There’s nothing to indicate this is true and since they pop up and then disappear, it seems like the opposite is true.
to:
*** how How do all the other ghosts seem to be around all the time? There’s nothing to indicate this is true and since they pop up and then disappear, it seems like the opposite is true.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 49 (click to see context) from:
** There is a very key theory about this film: he's only manifest when he's on-screen. Therefore, he hasn't been knocking around for a year, he simply thinks he has because his brain is filling in the gaps in his awareness.
to:
** There is a very key theory about this film: he's only manifest when he's on-screen. Therefore, he hasn't been knocking around for a year, he simply thinks he has because his brain "brain", for lack of a better word, is filling in the gaps in his awareness.
Changed line(s) 51 (click to see context) from:
*** He's a ghost. He doesn't have a brain. Also, if he's only around when he's on screen then what determines when he's on screen and when he isn't? All the other ghosts seem to be around all the time, not just when we see them, so why should Malcolm be an exception? If, as the point below suggests, he knows on some level already that he's dead but just hasn't accepted it yet, that makes more sense but still doesn't really answer why he didn't accept it after like a week of everybody completely and unnaturally ignoring him in every respect.
to:
*** He's a ghost. He doesn't have a brain. Also, if he's only around when he's on screen then what determines when he's on screen and when he isn't? All the other ghosts seem to be around all the time, not just when we see them, so why should Malcolm be an exception? If, as the point below suggests, he knows on some level already that he's dead but just hasn't accepted it yet, that makes more sense but still doesn't really answer why he didn't accept it after like a week of everybody completely and unnaturally ignoring him in every respect.
Deleted line(s) 53 (click to see context) :
*** While he may not have a physical brain, being a ghost, he still has a mind/consciousness that can make assumptions.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 52 (click to see context) from:
* how do all the other ghosts seem to be around all the time? There’s nothing to indicate this is true and since they pop up and then disappear, it seems like the opposite is true.
to:
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 52 (click to see context) from:
** how do all the other ghosts seem to be around all the time? There’s nothing to indicate this is true and since they pop up and then disappear, it seems like the opposite is true.
to:
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
** how do all the other ghosts seem to be around all the time? There’s nothing to indicate this is true and since they pop up and then disappear, it seems like the opposite is true.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 128 (click to see context) from:
to:
** Looks like the tropers above nailed it - regarding Cole specifically. What about all the other people though? Malcolm seems to be aware of their presence, unlike other ghosts...
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 122 (click to see context) from:
*** Maybe that sensitivity came from the fact that by that time he was [[spoiler: himself a ghost]]. We only ever see Malcolm listen to that tape; it could be that an ordinary person wouldn't have been able to hear anything on it, no matter how patently they'd listen.
to:
*** Maybe that sensitivity came from the fact that by that time he was [[spoiler: himself a ghost]]. We only ever see Malcolm alone listen to that tape; it could be that an ordinary person wouldn't have been able to hear anything on it, no matter how patently they'd listen.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 122 (click to see context) from:
*** Maybe that sensitivity came from the fact that by that time he was [[spoiler: himself a ghost]]. It could be that an ordinary person wouldn't have been able to hear anything on the tape, no matter how patently they'd listen.
to:
*** Maybe that sensitivity came from the fact that by that time he was [[spoiler: himself a ghost]]. It We only ever see Malcolm listen to that tape; it could be that an ordinary person wouldn't have been able to hear anything on the tape, it, no matter how patently they'd listen.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
*** Maybe that sensitivity came from the fact that by that time he was [[spoiler: himself a ghost]]. It could be that an ordinary person wouldn't have been able to hear anything on the tape, no matter how patently they'd listen.
Deleted line(s) 123 (click to see context) :
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* When Cole explains his problem to Malcolm, he says "I see dead people". And then at the end, in the flashback, he says "I see people". Though it was a small change, was there any significance to it?
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
** They might even have thought that the kid had an imaginary friend or was not right in the head - still hardly a reason to personally intervene for someone not familiar with the situation unless it gets dangerous for someone (and it doesn't).
