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Post #4: “Philadelphia” and social change (wknd HW)
May 22, 2008 | | Leave a Comment
TASK:
You are a writer for the Wesley College student magazine “Purple Haze”. You have been asked to write a 2008 film review of the 1993 film Philadelphia, considering what social reactions, and social change, it may have caused then, and now.
Guiding Questions: This film ‘brings to light’ many instances of social, political and legal change.
· How would this film have been received?
· How is it received thirteen years later?
· Would this film have caused any change in the world?
· In what ways is this film capable of causing change?
· What relevance to our western world does this film have in 2008?
· What issues in this film are currently being debated?
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