Q2 (part 1) - Reflective Evaluation Isabel Wong

Throughout the whole film of Sixth Sense, the protagonist Cole is a very obvious victim.
Since he is a boy who comes from single-parent family,  his classmates and teachers even call him a freak, and he is being treated as a sentimental boy. Cole's family background and behaviour make him vulnerable since no one is willing to accompany him and help him in the society he is living. When we put the same case into the actual world, it's not difficult to find the resemblance. In the actual world, people come from single-parent family or from lower class are seen as the ones who can be neglected and no one pays much attention on them. Some people might even look down on them. Same as the situation Cole is in, the birthday boy who is his classmate can be seen as children from richer family as his family can afford holding a birthday party for him. It's not a rare case where the richer people look down on poorer people. So Cole in the Sixth Sense represents the vulnerable group in the society thus he is always abused by his classmates and haunted by ghosts, but this also makes him willing to help the dead people as the dead people we will later realize they are also someone pathetic. Apart from the scary scenes, this might be a film to arouse the audience's awareness of caring the vulnerable people in the society.