1. What is the conflict in this film? Who are the contending characters? How is the conflict resolved?
2. What was the theme of this film? What were the film makers trying to tell us? Were they successful? Justify your answer.
3. Did you learn anything from this movie? What was it?
4. Was there something you didn't understand about the movie? What was it?
5. What did you like best about the movie? Why?
6. What did you like least about the movie? Why?
7. Select an action performed by one of the characters in the film and explain why the character took that action. What motivated him or her? What did this motivation have to do with the theme of the film?
8. Who was your favorite character in the movie? Why?
9. Who was your least favorite character in the movie? Why?
10. Describe the use of color in the film? Did it advance the emotions the film makers were trying to evoke? How would you have used color in the movie?
11. Analyze the use of music in the movie. Did it enhance the story that the film makers were trying to tell? How would you have used music in this movie?
12. Did all of the events portrayed in the film ring true? Describe the scenes that you found especially accurate. Which sequences didn't seem to match reality? Why?
13. What was the structure of the story told by the movie?
14. How did the editing of the film advance the story that the film makers were trying to tell? Explain how.

• Students can be asked to write an essay on any of the discussion questions described above.
• The class can be asked to take positions on and to debate any of the discussion questions.
• Change the ending of the film. (This can be done by the teacher describing a new ending or permitting the class or different groups of students to choose their own ending.) Break the class into groups to create a story board or a script of an altered version of the film accommodating the new ending and, if necessary, changing the order of the scenes.

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