What are the implications of the movie’s final scenes—Lena’s dance/battle with the being that reflects her and her conversation with “Kane”?  The slides address questions about destruction and transformation in the movie.  The movie isn’t specific about Lena’s transformation in area X, but what do you see as one or two possible changes wrought by the experience?  How is she a different character at the end of the film than at the beginning?

What are the implications of the movie’s final scenes—Lena’s dance/battle with the being that reflects her and her conversation with “Kane”?  The slides address questions about destruction and transformation in the movie.  The movie isn’t specific about Lena’s transformation in area X, but what do you see as one or two possible changes wrought by the experience?  How is she a different character at the end of the film than at the beginning?

What are the implications of the movie’s final scenes—Lena’s dance/battle with the being that reflects her and her conversation with “Kane”?  The slides address questions about destruction and transformation in the movie.  The movie isn’t specific about Lena’s transformation in area X, but what do you see as one or two possible changes wrought by the experience?  How is she a different character at the end of the film than at the beginning?

What are the implications of the movie’s final scenes—Lena’s dance/battle with the being that reflects her and her conversation with “Kane”?  The slides address questions about destruction and transformation in the movie.  The movie isn’t specific about Lena’s transformation in area X, but what do you see as one or two possible changes wrought by the experience?  How is she a different character at the end of the film than at the beginning?

How do you read the final scene in Children of Men?  Are we witnessing a symbolic re-birth?  Why does Cuaron choose Theo and Kee as the “key” figures for potential renewal?  How might the story be changed, for example, if the fountainhead of the human race was imagined as a white woman from a Western nation?  What does Kee’s pregnancy (and the rest of the movie) tell us about the power and limits of science and technology?

How do you read the final scene in Children of Men?  Are we witnessing a symbolic re-birth?  Why does Cuaron choose Theo and Kee as the “key” figures for potential renewal?  How might the story be changed, for example, if the fountainhead of the human race was imagined as a white woman from a Western nation?  What does Kee’s pregnancy (and the rest of the movie) tell us about the power and limits of science and technology?

How do you read the final scene in Children of Men?  Are we witnessing a symbolic re-birth?  Why does Cuaron choose Theo and Kee as the “key” figures for potential renewal?  How might the story be changed, for example, if the fountainhead of the human race was imagined as a white woman from a Western nation?  What does Kee’s pregnancy (and the rest of the movie) tell us about the power and limits of science and technology?

How do you read the final scene in Children of Men?  Are we witnessing a symbolic re-birth?  Why does Cuaron choose Theo and Kee as the “key” figures for potential renewal?  How might the story be changed, for example, if the fountainhead of the human race was imagined as a white woman from a Western nation?  What does Kee’s pregnancy (and the rest of the movie) tell us about the power and limits of science and technology?

The slides for today offer an overview of climate and environmental SF, and the changed consciousness of the central characters in “The People of Sand and Slag.” In the Calorie Man,” US agribusiness companies have reshaped the world from India to the Mississippi valley, largely by engineering and releasing crop diseases that only their genetically modified products can survive. How has this changed world altered the consciousness of Lalji or another character in the story? At what particular point do you see a character comprehending the environment and their place in a striking way?  

The slides for today offer an overview of climate and environmental SF, and the changed consciousness of the central characters in “The People of Sand and Slag.” In the Calorie Man,” US agribusiness companies have reshaped the world from India to the Mississippi valley, largely by engineering and releasing crop diseases that only their genetically modified products can survive. How has this changed world altered the consciousness of Lalji or another character in the story? At what particular point do you see a character comprehending the environment and their place in a striking way?