The 25th Anniversary

January 26, 2025 by • Uncategorized • 0 Comments

MANY CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH GOD FOR A FAITHLESS IMBECILE…

At least three while watching The Sixth Sense for the first time in a hotel room by myself.  (All within the first 65 minutes of the movie.) …

  • Film music during the opening credits that let me know the movie was going to be one of those exceptional movies that had marked most of the years of my life, dating back to 1975. A pattern I had first noticed in 1996 (and kept alive by Titanic and Saving Private Ryan) that had continued into 1999 with The Sixth Sense.  I felt as if Hollywood was following me.  Very creepy feeling.
  • Words from a Latin-speaking soldier early in the movie. I had been told by an uncle that something happens early in the movie that was connected to a big twist revealed at the end of the movie.  Thinking that the Latin words might have something to do with the big twist, I stopped looking after that scene where Bruce Willis looked up the translation of those words.  That scene would take on a whole new meaning in January of 2003, when I saw The Sixth Sense for the first time since the theatrical release of Signs.
  • Shopping for an engagement ring. When the fiancé opened his mouth, what he had to say somehow didn’t surprise me, as if I expected him to say what he said.  (I had displayed a similar attitude from just a few weeks earlier.)  This should have been even creepier than the feeling I had during the movie’s opening credits.  But I was so clueless back then.

There were many other close encounters that year, four of which include:

  • Noticing a billboard that read “Don’t make me come down there. –God”.
  • Realizing that I needed God during my wedding ceremony…but that I wasn’t sure if there was a way I could know that He was actually real.
  • Upon learning that my six year-old cat had cancer, I vocalized for the first time in my life my belief in God as I believed He was punishing me for my sins.
  • In a newly updated version of The Exorcist…two priests talking to each other while taking a break from performing an exorcism. The 1973 version had them sitting in silence in a very brief scene.  So when they started speaking in the updated version, I was very much surprised.  One of the priests answered as to why the enemy was doing what it was doing by saying “To reject the possibility that God could love us.”