A critique is not criticism in the strict sense; rather, it’s an engagement with and assessment of how the film works.Your critique should be ananalysis—not a plot summary or narrative of events but rather a response to the film that puts different ideas and concepts into play and draws on course readings and materials. A good critique will create a problem by asking simple questions and then proceed to answer them.
Why and how is the film relevant to a course in Canada about climate disasters and social justice? Which major social, political, cultural, and economic issues does the film foreground and consider? What is your connection to the key ideas and concerns of the film in your everyday life?
The questions allow you to generate answers that amount to arguments, concerns, and interpretations, which provide the basis for your reflection. Ideally, you can move beyond listing and outlining themes and ideas and towards unpacking the implications of the themes or issues in relation to climate disasters and social justice.
