Films about Technology: General Questions

1. What technology or technologies exist in the film's story world?
   
2. Who uses technology (job, age, gender, race, class, sexual orientation, religion, world view)? Which technologies does the character use? Does the character use technology effectively or ineffectively? What are the limits of the characters' abilities to use technology?
   
3. For what purpose(s) is technology used? Does the purpose change? Who or what causes the change and why?
   
4. How does technology impact the relationship between individual characters and/or groups? Between characters and institutions? Does technology help to establish or maintain certain power relations?
   
5. What are the consequences of technology? Does it change the nature or capabilities of characters, societies, institutions, or the physical world the film portrays?
   
6. How is technology visually depicted in the film? What thoughts and emotions might the film's visuals evoke from viewers?
   
7. What story does the film tell about technology? What is the overall tone toward technology? How do you think the cultural contexts of the film's production influence its representation of technology?