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Choose one of these movies to answer questions Questions for Gattaca: 1) How far are we away from the future the “not-too-distant-future” outlined in Gattaca? 2) What’s wrong with Vincent?  Why does he want so badly to become an astronaut? 3) Who is Anton?  Why did Vincent’s parents genetically engineer their second son? 4) What exactly is a “Faith Child,” and why are they considered abnormal in the future outlined by Gattaca? 5) What is a “Degenerate” in the future outlined by Gattaca? 6) What is “Genoism,” and how does it relate to “Degenerates?” 7) Who is Gerome Morrow, and what’s his problem?  Why did he step out in front of the automobile and attempt suicide? 8) Would you genetically engineer your child?  What would happen if you didn’t genetically engineer your child?  Could your child compete in a world filled with genetically engineered children? 9) What moral, religious, or ethical reasons might keep you from genetically engineering your child?  What elements might dissuade you from following your moral guidelines? 10) What traits would you “gift” your child with?  Make a top ten lists of physical and mental attributes you would engineer into your child. 11) What exactly is genetic engineering?  Where can you find genetic engineering in use today? 12) What is stem cell research?  Why is it so controversial? 13) Why shouldn’t we clone a human being?  Why should we clone human beings?     Essay Prompts Arrival: 1)   With all the Internet technology saturating Earth, why don’t the Heptapods buy smart phones and use Google decryption software to communicate with us? A lot of human culture has concepts like past, present, and future, they could pick up on our relationship with time with not so great effort on their part. 2)  Why do they look like squids? No offense, but are we to imagine them living underwater? Do they want to come and inhabit our oceans? Does that explain why they want our help? 3)   Why do they send two emissaries rather than a team? Do Abbot and Costello have genders that match their names? What if they’re both female? 4)   What exactly is going to happen in three thousand years? Why are they confident that we could help them? Do we have the option of declining their invitation to help? What happens if we say “No?” 5)   How do flash forwards function in the film? Why don’t we ever see Louise’s mother helping her take care of Hannah? 6)   In the first timeline visualized in the flash forward, Ian abandons his family after being told about Hannah’s cancer, why would he do such a terrible thing? Is it better that Louise keeps that information from him the second time around? Doesn’t he have the right to know and make an informed consent? 7)   If you were put in charge of the first contact committee, what type of team would you assemble? Would you include yourself? What about me? 8)   Where do the Heptapods come from? The initial assumption is that they come from our universe, but that’s not entirely clear; what if they come from another Universe with different physical laws? How might the concept of a multi-verse help explain their unique relationship to time? 9)   What do you think might actually happen if a first contact scenario such as that outlined in the film happened tomorrow? What would be the response of the Trump administration? 10)  In all the excitement and confusion about first contact with an alien species, who cares if Louise has a baby? Not to be too cruel about it, but that story seems wedged into a significantly larger issue like a distraction.     Questions for It Follows: 1)   What does the demon in the film actually look when it isn’t imitating other people? 2)   How can a demon be propagated through sexual intercourse? Or, is it better understood that the film is a metaphor for the dangers of premarital sex? If so, why is it so wrong to have sex outside marriage? Who made up this rule, and for what reasons? 3)   Why doesn’t Jay like Paul? List some reasons, and then try and explain why she finally consents to sleep with him at the end of the film? 4)   Does Jay have sex with the three men on the boat? If so, what happens to them? Does she tell them the rules of surviving the demon, or does she just leave them to die so she can live longer? 5)   How is it possible that a bullet can injure the demon but not kill it? Is it possible to actually kill the demon? 6)   Could you escape the demon by flying to another country? Like, the demon would not be able to cross water, right? I mean, the demon does not get into the pool to kill jay at the end of the film, right? 7)   Where does the demon come from? 8)   How are audiences supposed to understand the end of the film? I mean Jay and Paul are holding hands like a real couple, but does that mean it’s a happy ending? 9)   Who on Earth is that weird tall man in the hallway? Speculation required for this one as I don’t think he’s a character Jay actually knows. 10) Who is the creepy half-naked girl Jay encounters in her kitchen, and why does she appear to be traumatized?      

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