Watch a movie "Arrival" 2016 and answer questions.
. Entertainment value: What did you enjoy about Arrival? Is there anything about the film that you did not enjoy?
2. Allegorical interpretation: I recommended that you interpret this film allegorically by viewing the Heptapods as metaphors for immigrants and the humans as metaphors for host cultures. Explain this allegory further, but without going deep into the answers for questions #3 and 4. In other words, how can we see these characters in this way? Are there any other ways for us to interpret these sets of characters using the concepts discussed in our course?
3. Critical Insights: How does Arrival reflect the social tensions, conflicts and other problems that arise in culturally diverse societies like ours?
4. Creative insights: How does Arrival enable us to think about how these tensions, conflicts, and problems can be addressed, if not solved?
5. Re-definitions: How does Arrival offer us new ways of understanding the concept of ‘culture’?
6. Problematization: Identify a potential problem with how this film deals with the issues discussed in this podcast and our course in general. Think about how serious the problem is too and if possible, how to solve it.
7. Intertextuality: What other stories (fictional or non-fictional) can Arrival be compared (or contrasted with) in its approach to these issues?
8. Brief reflection: Now that you’ve finished discussing the film, how has your perspective on it changed?