| Chapter 5: | Conclusion |
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- • Is it likely the film is advertently or inadvertently affecting your own preconceptions? Is it tending to make you more or less prejudice about groups with which you have limited or little contact?
- • What is the film’s implicit worldview? Who are the heroes and what makes them heroic? Does the film have a position about God? What is good; what is evil? What is the film’s attitude toward fairness and justice? What’s its presumption about the meaning of life? Does it emphasize individual responsibility or external control? What is the proper relationship between reason and emotion? Is the basic human impulse towards good or evil? Are the "good" characters supposed to " be themselves" or change for the better?
- • Is the film consistent in its values (e.g. does it use gratuitous violence to superficially denounce violence)?
- • If the movie is not “realistic,Ý is it internally consistent (e.g. I’ll accept that Superman can fly, have x-ray vision, and bulletproof skin, but making the world spin backward in Superman I was too much)?
- • Weighing everything, what do I find myself still thinking about, and why is that probably significant?
- • Given all of my previous learning are there any specific concepts or perspectives that are particularly worth using to better explain this film?
- • Historically, how accurate is this film?
- • To what extent might ÜrealÝ people actually act this way?
- • Are the details about working people accurate in terms of how people go about their business?
- • Are the characters’ motivations and actions plausible?
- • Are the social interactions plausible (or, if exaggerated, at least logical extensions of how people act / might act?)
- • Are the individual characters and situations exceptional or typical and representative of most people?