hamakei
Since: Aug, 2017
Oct 28th 2017 at 12:55:02 AM
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People seem to have a lot of trouble distinguishing this from "dead all along". Surely if we know fairly early on that the characters are dead and it's not a plot twist, then it's not this trope? Therefore "the others", "the sixth sense" and "Jacobs ladder" don't belong here, since the fact they're dead DOESN'T come up until the end of the film and is meant to be a surprise?
enitharmon
Since: Aug, 2010
May 26th 2012 at 4:08:26 PM
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The Sixth Sense. We all know the big twist there.
No we don't. I do wish these things weren't assumed.
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Haven
Since: May, 2011
Haven
Apr 21st 2012 at 1:01:15 AM
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Isn't this kinda like Dead All Along? What is the difference?
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ThAlEdison
Since: Jan, 2001
May 3rd 2012 at 8:41:08 AM
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The reveal. That's like saying isn't The Sixth Sense like Dead Like Me?
In Goethe's Faust I (ll. 702ff.) Faust wants to commit suicide and hopes "To pierce the ether’s high, unknown dominions, / To reach new spheres of pure activity" (but ends up not doing it). Is that a subverted invocation of this trope?