Before the pivotal point, the audience is literally told “everything you have just seen is an illusion.” Then a mysterious figure says wake up, (more than once). This is not just part of the plot it is also directed at the audience. Everything before that point was a dream, everything after actually happened.

The main character moved to Hollywood to become an actress, failed, jilted by her lover, then kills her, has a strange dream, wakes up and turns herself in.

Watch it again and you will see that it is blatantly obvious that it is a dream, then everything will make sense. One of the greatest things about the film is that upon first viewing you get so preoccupied trying to untangle the mystery, carefully examining each subtle part of the film that you miss the blatant clues that it is all a dream.

“The Sixth Sense” was half-spoiled for me. Meaning that someone gave it away, but they sort of got the facts wrong, so I knew someone was already dead, I just didn’t know who. I get the feeling that in 10 years “The Sixth Sense” will be like “The Empire Strikes Back”–EVERYONE will know the twist before they see the movie, and nobody will realize how surprised audiences were when the movie first came out.

Basically up to viewer interpretation.

My guess – the end of the movie (when she is no longer Betty, but is Diane) is reality, whereas the beginning was a dream.

Also: don’t mean to ruin to forever praise that The Usual Suspects gets, but I figured out who was Keyser Soze it was pretty obvious.

“Rosebud = the sled” hahaha, I don’t think that spoils much for most on here. Yet another slightly overrated movie in my opinion. Both are good, just not as good as everyone claims they are.

I’ve watched it twice and still have no idea what the heck is supposed to be going on

others would rather have a little us in Sarah Palin.

a luckier few would have a lot of us in Sarah Palin.

a disturbing few would rather be in one of Palin’s kids.

I TOTALLY GUESSED IT!!

My friends said there was a twist but not what it was… And AS SOON AS edward norton called Brad Pitt from the Phone booth, and then hung up and then the phone rang… I TOTALLY KNEW THEY WERE THE SAME GUY!! I spent The rest of the movie trying to reason that the twist should not have been that easy to figure out…

There was also the option of a line graph with impact of twist vs likelihood of being spoilt on the axis, with Xs to mark the position of each movie – although not sure where Mulholland Drive would go?

In reality a “Friend” actually did spoil titanic for us in telling us the whole scene with leonardo DeCap and the floating wardrobe – it was like thanks – well I new the ship was going to sink!
As for the “Twist” Movies I left out -either I hadnt seen them, or couldnt see any humour in including them.
Basically I was going for about three jokes/points..
1 – remind everyone of their own stupid friends who spoil movies
2 – that Mulholland drive was weird (I had to Google it to and read an analysis to understand what happened)
3 – That Titanic isnt really a twist movie –
the others are thrown in for good measure – in reality i dont normally guess M Night Shal. movies – although now that we know they are all twist movies they are somewhat spoiled because you go looking for them.

Thank you all for your votes and comments – Glad to have given you something to talk about at least.

As they approached the theater, the people who had seen the movie were exiting.

One guy he didn’t know singled him out came up to him and said “Spock Dies!!!!”

My friend always goes to the first showing of Star Trek movies.

BTW Anikin becomes Darth Vader should be on the list too…

BTW, Rosebud is the sled.

As for “Lost Highway”, yeah, that stills gets a “Still Don’t Know”. It’s supposed to be a mescaline trip, so I guess in that respect it makes sense.