Discussion Questions for Teaching The Tomorrow War in your seminar
Discuss the story structure. Did the writers purposely make three different films to refute a general story structure? Does this make it outsider art?
How does this film support a pro-military agenda? Please list eighteen examples.
There is a saying that goes “you can’t seperate the art from the artists.” Do you think that Chris Pratt’s charisma was lost in his conversion to evengelical christianity?
Please print out the screenplay and provide notes as if you were a film executive. Provide feedback on how the film creates its own plot hole. How would you tell the writers, giving constructive feedback, that they could just send back intel to the past to create a defense?
How does the biological sex role determinism support an anti-choice agenda?
Compare and constrast the anti-immigration movement to the film.
Why are they WHITE spikes?
What is the magical n–ro trope? Does the child who knows volcanoes fit this trope? Or is it different because he is a kid?
What is the allegorical nature of what sciences are supported by the government? By not getting the government involved in the frozen volcano-poison-injection adventure, does this refer to a small-government political stance?