Ghost

The last film I watched, Ghost, was created with a lot of interesting and sensible choices. Sam Wheat, the main character of the story was the good guy, or the protagonist. His "friend", Carl, is the antagonist. We can tell that Sam is the protagonist not only because the story revolves around him, but because even in the afterlife he is still trying to protect his girlfriend Molly. He spends the entire movie trying to get people to help him bring Carl down, namely Oda Mae, a psychic who can communicate with the dead.
Now, the director could have taken a completely different turn with this film, choosing to have Sam try to communicate with Molly in different ways, maybe ways that would unintentionally have frightened her. Even when he uses Oda Mae, Molly is still skeptical, up until the point where he drags a penny up the front door of her loft. She is no longer frustrated or angry, nor scared after this, and finally believes that Sam is trying to communicate with her. The director could have just had Sam disappear into the afterlife after dying, but I understood that he was not completely gone yet because there was a purpose he needed to fufill. By doing what he thought was just protecting someone he loved, he also earned his way into Heaven by the end of the movie, showing him walking into a light after telling Molly goodbye and saving her.
Another interesting standpoint is how the director portrayed evil, and bad spirits. After people with bad spirits died in the film, they'd come out of their bodies as ghosts, and then dark, scary shadows would come and carry their soul away. I believed that this was a bit vivid for the tone of the film, but I understood what it meant and what it represented. Overall, both representations of good and evil in the film were clear and understandable, andmade sense to me and hopefully other viewers watching.