Part 1: Rewrite the following list of themes in your exercise book, rearranging them in order from what you believe to be the LEAST important to the MOST important themes in the film:
- There is a risk, because of how we are living now, that the human race will become infertile.
- This film isn’t about the future. It’s about right now.
- This film is about how our civilisation has become desperate and dangerous.
- We should place our hope in the next generation.
- We are on our own to fix the world we have broken.
- Hope shines brighter in a disintegrating world.
- This is a film about politics, not faith.
- This is a film about the battle between faith and chance.
- The theme is hope: how we thrive in its presence and wither in its absence.
- Human society in crisis will lose its principles and shared humanity.
Part 2: For your THREE highest ranked/most important themes, provide a 4 to 6 sentence explanation of how they are explored in the film and why they are important to the overall story, world and the director’s message. Make reference to specific scenes, characters and/or events in each response.
